Category: Better Life Tips

  • Essential Tips for Choosing a Student Laptop

    If I had been drinking something at the time, I would have spit it all over my screen. That’s because I was reading a laptop buying guide that was so superficial, so full of errors, half-truths and oversimplifications, that I couldn’t believe my eyes. I won’t name any names, but this was my favorite gem:…

  • Top 120 Resources for Bloggers – Collect by batteries-company.com

    An aspiring blogger can be overwhelmed with the vast amount of resources, tools, and advice for bloggers available on the net. While in no way definitive – there’s simply too much going on in this space to cover it all – we did our best to bring you a comprehensive list of blogging resources, which…

  • Top 3 from Computex 2012 feature

    Being an optimistic type of guy, I had hoped to pen a Five of the best from Computex 2012 feature. Alas, there’s not a great deal to write about. Not in terms of new tablets and smartphones, anyways. Indeed, one of the biggest stories out of this year’s Computex was HTC’s absence from the first wave of Windows 8…

  • Apps to keep your iPhone healthy and maintain your iPhone battery

    Do you have concerns about the security of your data or the battery life on your iPhone? It is essential to properly maintain your device in order for it to work effectively. Explore the following apps to keep your iPhone healthy in this quick and easy round-up. Lookout Mobile Security Interface – When first launching…

  • New iPad maintains 10 hours battery life

    Graphics-savvy iPad maintains battery life Leveraging its efficient chip design, Apple says the latest iPad batteries can still run for 10 hours, like the iPad 2, and for nine hours on the 4G LTE cellular network. Even with a big boost in display resolution, the latest iPad will still have 10 hours of battery life…

  • Optimizing laptop battery power instructions

    Have you ever run out of battery power on your laptop, notebook, or netbook during a meeting or a class? Sufficient battery life is a persistent challenge for mobile PC users. You can take simple maintenance steps to extend the life of your laptop battery. TheWindows operating system also offers several ways to help maximize the…

  • How to replace your iPhone battery

    Replace iPhone Extended Life Battery Instructions If your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is no longer holding a charge, and always running out of power, replacing the extended life battery is a moderate level DIY repair. If you’ve got the right tools and parts, it shouldn’t be too difficult to swap out that old battery…

  • Fix power consumption problems and extend laptop battery life by Microsoft Fix It

    Microsoft has released Fix it, which automatically detects system settings that can affect power usage, such as timeout and sleep settings, display settings, and screensavers, and restore them to their default settings. The Fix It troubleshooter is designed to automatically identify problems and set up Windows 7 laptops per the best settings to extend battery…

  • Cell Phone Battery on the iPhone 5

    After the iPhone 5 craze dies down, you’ll have ample time to see how well you actually like the device.  Is it the phone that has all of the feature you have dreamed of?  It is very close, but it all really depends on what you need. For those who are considering the jump to…

  • Google Nexus 7 smaller but longer battery life than Kindle Fire

     Google Nexus 7 teardown reveals better battery than Kindle Fire A full teardown of the new Google Nexus 7 has revealed the tablet is packing a seriously impressive battery under the hood. The Nexus 7 comes with a 4,326mAh, 16Wh battery which can reportedly last a whopping 9 hours, 50 minutes, according to the chaps over at…