Little aptitude required to be an online quiz master

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I sent my favorite 11 year old a personality quiz about her favorite Amazon series. Then I made a better one.

You have probably seen quizzes like this on Facebook and elsewhere. Perhaps the most famous is from the New York Times. If you search for the term “New York Times quiz how y’all”, it comes right up. It finds out where you are from based on the words you use. They labeled me a Californian which is just right since I grew up there. One of the words that helped them decide was my use of “Crawdad” instead of “Crayfish”. But they also thought that as a college student I had spent some time in Reno, Nevada that I had.

To create your own quiz, search for “Everything you need to know about creating a BuzzFeed quizâ€. When you’re done, you’ll receive a link to share in an email, Facebook, or wherever. However, you cannot use BuzzFeed Quizzes to promote your business. If that’s what you want to do, try the WordPress Forminator Contact Form plug-in.

To find personality tests, do a web search. I was just doing a search for “How Adventurous Are You Quiz” and found a fun one on BrainFall.com. Unfortunately, I had to take a design software survey to get my results. In your opinion, I am “hesitant”.

BENEFITS OF FIREFOX

I signed up for YouTube Premium for $ 12 a month because I couldn’t stand the ads. Then a reader told me that even with the free version of Firefox, you won’t get any ads. The same goes for the Brave web browser, which I haven’t yet recognized.

Firefox is owned by a non-profit organization called Mozilla. It’s one of the few browsers that isn’t based on Google’s Chromium system. Not only does it give you an ad-free YouTube experience, but great privacy as well. One reader told me that they love their Thunderbird.net email system.

I tried it years ago, but it’s a lot more fun now. Of course, Gmail has an advanced search system. But I love Thunderbird’s shortcuts, and I see valuable email that I haven’t seen in years because it shows folders.

YOUR IPHONE’S BATTERY

The maximum battery capacity of my 6 year old iPhone is 93%. In other words, it will no longer charge 100%. But anything over 80% is good. You can check yours by tapping “Settings,” then “Battery,” then “Battery Health”.

According to How and Where to Replace Your iPhone Battery, an article on theVerge.com, an iPhone battery will lose its water resistance if you replace it yourself. So it makes sense to let Apple handle it. Older phones cost $ 49 to replace the battery; for newer ones it’s $ 65.

You may want to enable “Power Saving Mode” in the settings so that the screen brightness is automatically dimmed when the battery is low and unnecessary functions such as system animations are minimized. Another suggestion under “Battery Health” on your iPhone is to prevent apps from automatically updating in the background. In the “Settings” under “General” go to “Background app update”. Also, consider turning off Notifications for any app you don’t care about. These also discharge the battery.

Search for “Android battery tips†on Android phones for a whole range of them from Google Support. Common suspects include turning off the screen earlier, which you can quickly do by pressing the power button. Reduction of the screen brightness and restriction of apps with high battery consumption. The Google support page shows you how.

ANDROID NEWS

When Android 11 came out in the summer, Android phones got a new data protection feature. Android 11 automatically revokes the permissions you gave an app when you first installed it if you haven’t used it for a long time.

In other news, the new Android 12 – which I’m testing in beta – has a neat new feature called “Notification History”. Tap Settings, then Notifications. Mine said I received 42 notifications in the last 24 hours. Amazingly, all but three let me know that my phone was now paired with my computer so I could answer text messages from my large keyboard. All right, I understand.

By the way, if you want to reply to text messages on your computer, go to Messages.Android.com. Then tap the Messages app on your phone. Tap the hamburger icon (three stacked lines), then tap Device Pairing. Now tap on “QR Code Scanner” and hold your phone towards the website to have your camera pick up what looks like a barcode on the screen. That’s it! You are in. You should only have to do it once, but sometimes mine needs to be reconnected.

FUTURE PERFECT

“A Brief Story of a Perfect Future: Inventing the World We Can Proudly Leave by 2050†by bestselling authors Chunka Mui, Paul Carroll and Tim Andrews, just arrived in bookstores and online. It’s a great guide to everything that’s happening now and a reminder of how much has been accomplished. For example, in 1971, Intel’s first microprocessor had 2,300 transistors, each costing $ 1. Today’s transistors cost less than a millionth of a penny each.

INTERNUTS

“90-year-old woman takes to the dance floor, but nobody expected that.” Look for an amazing feat in this phrase.

SurveyJunkie.com is a great way to make money by completing surveys. I earned 87 cents in points in less than five minutes. But I can’t redeem it until I’m worth $ 5. InboxDollars.com is a similar one.

Joy Schwabach can be reached by email at [email protected].

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