Every villager has a birthday. Here’s our list of every single one of them!

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, each villager that can move to your island has a birthday. During that day, everyone in your town will host a birthday party for them, and you’ll be able to give the birthday villager a gift to celebrate the occasion. Since you only have one day a year to give each villager on your island a birthday gift, it’s important that you keep track of every villager’s special day. However, due to the sheer volume of villagers in the game (there are over 390!) doing so is not an easy task. Don’t worry, though, because this guide will allow you to quickly review the birthday of any villager in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. With this list, you’ll never miss a birthday!

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons

$60 at Amazon
$60 at Best Buy

The joyful game the world needs

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The iPad Mini 5 is so compact and easy to tote around, you may use it as much as your smartphone. If its battery isn’t holding up to all that extra usage, a portable charger will likely be the best solution to keep you and your iPad moving. Here are a few of the best iPad Mini 5 portable chargers that are bound to keep your tiny tablet alive and well on extended excursions.

Potent portable

Aukey USB-C power bank

Staff pick

This 20000mAh battery bank is as versatile as it is portable, and it’s pretty portable. Thinner than similar products from other companies, the Aukey USB-C power bank feature three USB-A ports for standard charging cables, a micro-USB port, a USB-C port, and a Lightning port, letting you charge the battery itself using a Lightning cable.

$36 at Amazon$64 at Walmart

Packed with power

Anker PowerCore II 20000

This portable battery packs some serious power. It’s a 20100mAh battery with two USB charging ports so you can charge multiple devices at once. It s…

Looking to try out iPadOS 14.2? The public beta is now available. Here’s how to download it!

iPadOS 14.2 is on its way with features that need to be tested before the software is made available to the general public. As such, Apple is letting interested users check out iPadOS 14.2 and provide feedback before it goes into wide release.

If you’re one of those interested users, however, you will have to go through the public beta download and install process. While it’s not complicated, it’s a bit of a departure for how you might normally get software onto your iPad. So, we’re going to walk you through it and give you a place to ask questions if you need extra help.

Apple occasionally offers updates to iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS as closed developer previews or public betas. While the betas contain new features, they also contain pre-release bugs that can prevent the normal use of your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, or Mac, and are not intended for everyday use on a…

Looking to try out iOS 14.2? The public beta is now available. Here’s how to download it!

iOS 14.2 is on its way with features that need to be tested before the software is made available to the general public. As such, Apple is letting interested users check out iOS 14.2 and provide feedback before it goes into wide release.

If you’re one of those interested users, however, you will have to go through the public beta download and install process. While it’s not complicated, it’s a bit of a departure for how you might normally get software onto your iPhone. So, we’re going to walk you through it and give you a place to ask questions if you need extra help.

Apple occasionally offers updates to iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS as closed developer previews or public betas. While the betas contain new features, they also contain pre-release bugs that can prevent the normal use of your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, or Mac, and are not intended for everyday use on a primar…

We are quickly approaching the Black Friday shopping season, and Best Buy’s sales event for the big day promises to be one of the largest around. Get ready for the big event with all the info you need to know when it’s happening, how it’s happening, and what you can save on. You’ll have every opportunity to save on electronics like the Nintendo Switch and 4K TVs, home appliances, toys, and more.

The global pandemic has changed and delayed a lot of things, and Black Friday is no exception. All retailers are expecting a whole lot more people shopping online and a whole lot fewer people shopping in person. Because of that, you can expect all of Best Buy’s usual doorbusters and other in-store incentives to be transferred online to limited-time deals and things like that. I mean, Best Buy is even closing down for Thanksgiving, along with Walmart, Home Depot, and others, and waiting until the actual Friday to open up for Black Friday. What a concept.

Again, though, just because the lands…

Coming soon, your iPhone will be able to act as your car key, as long as you have a compatible car.

At WWDC 2020, Apple announced a new feature for the iPhone related to cars: car keys. Starting this summer with the new BMW 5 Series, customers with compatible vehicles can use their iPhone as the key to both unlock your car and turn it on. You’ll even be able to share this digital key with other people and even put restrictions on how they use your car.

Here’s what you need to know about digital car keys on iPhone.

Digital car keys?

Yep. Starting with iOS 13.6, and continuing with iOS 14, you can add digital car keys in Wallet on your iPhone, that you can use instead of your car’s included key.

While it works with a small set of BMW cars at launch, it allows you to unlock and turn on your car without having the physical key that came with your car on you, assuming your vehicle supports that functionality.

Wait, this is in iOS 13?

That’s right. While Apple introduced this featur…

The Amazon Halo sounds like it was creating in a nightmare to make fitness tracking an anxiety-ridden experience. I’ll stick to the positive attitude that Apple Watch delivers.

Fitness trackers have been around for years now, and most smartwatches come with some sort of fitness tracking abilities. Companies like Fitbit, Withings, Apple, Samsung, and more have all jumped into the fitness tracking deep end, offering plenty of ways to track various metrics that give you a better picture of your overall health. Recently, Amazon released the Amazon Halo. If Android Central’s Review of the Amazon Halo is any indication, it seems like a tough device to strap on your wrist if you’re struggling with fitness for any reason.

My personal experience with fitness trackers

As someone who deals with anxiety and depression, losing weight, and being healthy is something I struggle with a lot. I used to use a Fitbit as my primary fitness tracker years ago, and it quickly became a source dread ever…

Far before the first leaf falls, each Autumn I’m already counting down the days to Halloween. Nothing gets me more excited for this spooky day than playing some of my favorite Nintendo Switch games. Then, when the haunting day arrives, I love nothing more than to curl up on the couch clutching my controller and eating candy. Whether you’re looking for something to play by yourself or for a spooky game to play with friends, here are the best Nintendo Switch games to celebrate All Hallows Eve this year.

★ Featured favorite

Resident Evil Triple Pack

This collection comes with Resident Evil 4, 5, and 6, which are some of the best games in the series. You can even play local or online multiplayer with Resident Evil 5 and 6. Each has you fighting creepy foes and blasting your way to safety, making it one of the best Halloween Switch games of the season.

$39 at Amazon
$37 at Walmart
$58 at Newegg

Who ya goo-nna call?

Luigi’s Mansion 3

Staff pick

For lighthearted spooks…

I’d never flown a drone before. Now I feel like an expert, and I want to do more.

If you’ve never flown a drone, and maybe never even thought you’d want to, let me tell you what an amazing ride it is to fly a camera straight up into the sky and look around you without having to go anywhere. Seeing the world from a new angle, going where you couldn’t have ever gone yourself … it’s like flying with your own set of wings. Actually, it’s more like being a beast master. You control the flying beast and can see through its eyes. The Mavic Air 2 is rugged, easy to get started with right out of the box, and has dozens of protection features to keep you from breaking your expensive new toy the first time you try to lift off.

If you’ve always wanted a drone, but never knew which one to get, read my Mavic Air 2 review. I think you’re going to like it as much as I do.

Mavic Air 2

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