Luckily, some excellent mobile apps are built to relieve the pressure new dads face and help them become the best parents and partners they can be. Here are our picks for the five best baby apps for new dads looking for handy resources and guidance. Five checklists make it easy to keep track of everything you need for milestones, such as readying a hospital labor bag, preparing your home for the new arrival, and everything required to take your new bundle of joy out in public when the time is right....

With so much of our lives revolving around electricity, the case for solar chargers is not hard to make. Some solar chargers are small enough to strap on to the top of your backpack, so even as you walk to work, or set your backpack down next to a window on the train or in your car, you can use the sun’s power to your advantage. You can plug in your phone and your tablet, but you can also scale that up to your laptop with the five included different-sized barrel chargers, and connection for your car battery as well....

While that’s surely interesting, choosing a convertible PC can be a lot of work since there are hundreds of options in the market. To help you out, we’ve shortlisted some of the best 2-in-1 laptop tablets available out there. Read all about them, and make an informed decision. Also, be sure to check out our constantly updated guide to the best laptop deals happening right now, for great machines at steep discounts....

If your storage needs aren’t so robust, you should glance at our general list of the best external hard drives. They vary in storage size, speed, and warranty, but you’re sure to find what you need. Otherwise, read on to see the best 8TB external hard drives. Mainstream hard drives of 8TB capacity generally can’t fit into a very portable size, but the WD My Book is still a fairly compact unit that houses a 3....

You need to choose a specific IF cadence (there’s the 16:8, 5:2, alternate-day fast, and others), use schedules or timers, and develop the willpower to not break the fast. Not surprisingly, there are a number of excellent apps that can help. Here are the eight best IF apps for iOS and Android. The app can send you notifications when it’s time to start and stop your fast, and you can easily track your progress over time, which includes celebrating your fasting streaks and watching your weight change over time....

For most people, our experts think you should just buy the BenQ PD3220U 32-inch 4K monitor. It provides excellent image quality and the right ports you need to plug in. However, we’ve selected numerous additional picks to cover a range of uses. This list targets the MacBook Pro specifically and, as such, most monitors we recommend have Thunderbolt or USB-C connectivity (if you have a newer Macbook, it’ll be USB-C, a small connector with rounded edges, and if your Macbook is older, you may have the more rectangular Thunderbolt connector)....

If you want a chance to dive back into a Valve world, even on a smaller scale, and are looking to get your feet wet with VR, The Lab is better than any other introductory minigame or tutorial in VR out there. Available for: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus, and Windows Mixed Reality. Playing A Township Tale is a chill experience in the vein of Valheim. You’ll mostly spend your time slowly gathering resources, growing stronger, and exploring, and meeting and playing with other people along the way....

What Is an E-Paper Smartwatch? The Upsides to an E-Paper Smartwatch The most obvious advantage of a smartwatch with an e-paper display is longer battery life. This technology requires less power than other display types, so you don’t need to charge your watch as frequently. Looking at the top smartwatches from a battery life perspective, you see that e-paper options such as those from Pebble rank high. Depending on your lifestyle and whether you tend to forget to plug in your tech every night before bed, the ability to go several days on a charge could mean you ultimately get more use out of your device....

Starring Morgan Freeman as a veteran detective and Brad Pitt as his young hotshot partner, Seven follows the pair’s attempts to find a serial killer who models his murders after the seven deadly sins. Famous for its shocking final twist, Fincher’s film is a tour de force of suspense and grotesqueries, and arguably set the template for the modern crime thriller. Seven was both a commercial and critical hit, landing in the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 1995 on its way to an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing....

You can use forScore to display all types of written music, from traditional piano or c-instrument sheet music to chords and lyrics. The app comes with a fair bit of classical music, and you can buy additional music packs. The true power is in importing music into forScore, which means you can scan your sheet music collection and display it on the iPad screen in an organized fashion. Because the forScore app has a metronome that can scroll your music automatically, the app can make it even easier to play....

Check back regularly for updates. Spruce up your home theater experience with this nicely-discounted soundbar and wireless subwoofer from Klipsch. It comes with a remote and Dolby Atmos encoding for immersive sound. Need a wall charger that can handle multiple gadgets? This USB-C charger can fast charge the latest iPhone, Samsung, and Google smartphones. It can also handle tablets. It’s a great accessory to have at home or when traveling....

Here’s how to root your phone safely and how to take full advantage of your newfound freedom. Preparing Your Phone As in major surgery, rooting requires some preparation before you go all in. Before you start the process, be sure to backup all of the data on your phone. You can either back up your stuff to Google’s servers or use a third-party app like Helium. The Rooting Process Next, you need to choose what type of software you want to use to root your device....

Given these similarities, routers, switches, and hubs may appear identical at first, but they have important distinctions. Routers Forward Network Data More Intelligently While hubs, switches, and routers share physical appearances, routers differ substantially in their inner workings and contain significantly more logic. Traditional routers are designed to join together multiple local area networks (LANs) with a wide area network (WAN). Routers serve as intermediate destinations for network traffic. They receive incoming network packets, look inside each packet to identify the source and target network addresses, then forward these packets where needed to ensure the data reaches its final destination....

Google is working on a new type of notification system for smart home devices called Little Signals. The concept substitutes pings and chimes for methods like moving shadows, physical taps, or even puffs of air. Many users apparently can’t wait to stop all the ringing sounds and flashing alerts. “Notifications fatigue is a real thing,” Mike Welsh, the chief creative officer of the digital consulting company Mobiquity told Lifewire in an email interview....

Brand Guidelines About Some companies have internal stylesheets that reflect how they want you to speak about the company, how images are displayed, and even how you can reference another business or human. Twitter has public rules. As we all know, if you put something out there publicly, on some level, misuse and abuse will occur. This is why Twitter has a few rules of its own. To start, you must always capitalize the T in Tweet....

Backlight the Subject The easiest way to photograph a silhouette is to use the sun as your backlight. Positioning your subject in front of the sun’s direct light produces a strong silhouette and allows the sun’s rays to gently spill into the background and color the sky. Meter for the Background DSLR cameras are not smart enough to know that you want the subject to be a deep black. The solution: Bypass your camera’s automatic settings to meter the subject, thereby forcing the camera to expose the subject as if it had optimum light falling on it....

Today at Apple Sessions is adding a new group session option that builds on the extensive list of training and educational classes that are already part of the Today at Apple curriculum, designed to help people use their Apple devices better. With group sessions, Apple gives larger groups of people the option to book an entire class, whereas they were previously aimed squarely at individuals. “Group sessions are best for classrooms and organizations with time constraints and specific learning goals,” Apple Retail expert Michael Steeber told Lifewire via direct message....

Terminal, an app included with the Mac OS, provides access to Mac’s command line. The fact that the Mac has a command line is often a shock to Mac users and Windows switchers, but when you realize that OS X and macOS are built using Unix components, it makes sense that a command line tool is available. Terminal includes commands for working with attached storage devices, such as an optical drive....

The option is called “remove this follower,” and it does just that. All it does is stop another Twitter user from seeing your tweets in their timeline. A full-on block does that too, but blocking a user also prevents those users from seeing your tweets anywhere. The idea of a soft block is to distance yourself from an abusive follower without enraging them. It’s kind of the Twitter equivalent of slipping out of a party quietly to avoid that dude who’s coming on strong....

The process was fairly complicated and time-consuming. For that reason, it was always left in the domain of the power user even though many PCs would benefit from the occasional reset. With Windows 8, Microsoft finally embraced the trend of PC refreshes and introduced a formal, easy-to-use procedure to refresh or reset your PC. Microsoft continues to offer those utilities in Windows 10, but the process and options are slightly different compared to its predecessor....