In the age of technology, we are bombarded with the latest and greatest machines to make our lives easier and more connected. Along with all of these awesome new gadgets come their own individual share of issues, and the internet born rumors about how they operate. There are several types of technology whose creators established a set of rules or guidelines for their operation. The all mighty internet has warped some of these rules into rumors that have established them as fact when they are in actuality false. Some of these common myths and misconceptions you may be guilty of believing yourself, and others may surprise you altogether.
1. Ejecting Your Flash drive
The flash drive, a small external storage device is nowhere near being a new piece of technology. These little file holders are still widely used and many mistakenly assume that the ejection procedure after inserting and using the drive on the computer is archaic and frivolous. Well, it turns out that the ejection process is the safest way to remove the drive in order to confirm that all of the programs are completed using it. If you prematurely eject your flash drive it is possible that files may be damaged or inadvertently removed.
2. "Jail-breaking" Your Phone Is Illegal
I vividly remember my peers in middle school paying the couple of students who knew how to jail-break an iPhone. These covert operations were always kept hidden and to young people who had just discovered auto-correct, this was a very illegal thing. It turns out that jail-breaking is not illegal and was declared by the U.S. federal regulators that this did not infringe on any copyright terms.
3. Apple Macs Are Immune From Viruses
This belief is founded in the fact that proportionately, there are more PC's than Macs, and Mac devices have a strong foundation so hackers won't even bother to infect a Mac. This myth is partly why so many young people, looking to buy a new laptop, went with a Mac over a PC device. 1 in 5 Macs carry Malware just like PC's and recently Java has inserted several "holes" in the security of Mac devices. The debate over Mac vs. PC will continue into eternity, but this argument for Macs is less true than it used to be.
4. Charging Your Phone Before It Is Dead Will Ruin The Battery
This used to be true for nickel based batteries and some of the older models. Lithium, and Lithium ion batteries in computers and mobile phones can be charged at any convenient time without the fear that the phone battery will die faster or not reach 100% because you prematurely charged it.
