Increase Your Iphone Battery Life With These Easy To Use Tips
If you are an iPhone users then you must be aware of the less point of Apple’s iPhone is its Battery. With every usage of it the %age of battery decreases. Iphone offers its users whole new world of features, apps, games which cannot be resisted from exploring. But the main concern for the user will be saving the battery throughout the day. Maximum iPhone battery is 100% and it rapidly decreases according to the usage.
But every problem has a fix to it and Apple has done that for the battery issue. So let’s explore these few simple and few little tricky ones to get that extra bit of battery.
When Not in Use Turn off Your iPhone All Wireless Applications
All the latest phones, being specific Smartphone come with inbuilt wireless applications like Bluetooth and wifi access. So it is advised to switch off such features when they are not in use. As these features tends to deplete your iPhone battery fast. So turning them off can help you extend the battery life for several hours.
If not required then disable the 3G as well. As the 3G technology survives on the battery of the phone. If possible to turn off it will give you long battery life for whole day.
Make use of the auto brightness feature of your iPhone. This will automatically adjust the back light of IPhone as required. This adjustment also helps in saving battery.
Manually Lesser The Screen Brightness
Although you have enabled the auto brightness feature but in some scenarios it does not dim the light as required. There you can manually lower the brightness of the home screen for saving of the battery. Preferred is to keep your brightness to 49% to make optimum use of the iPhone battery.
End Background Apps
According to Apple, the background apps are not technically ‘running’, unless they are front and centre, which means they should not draw any power.
The multitasking application for the iPhone continues to use resources of system more efficiently depletes your battery.
Applications, for example, Skype or even other VoIP can be especially benefit from the battery when you perform within the setting and so it is better to start launching the applications only when you need which can save the battery life.
Cool Off The IPhone Temperature
High temperature of iPhone also eats up its battery life. If you find that while charging your phone the temperature is increasing, then remove the phone cover before plugging in for charging. Let it also have a breath of fresh air so place it on a table or in open space instead of your pocket. The optimum temperature for iPhone and its battery is between 32°F to 95° F.
Make Use of Solar Chargers
Solar chargers give you freedom of charging your iPhone from anywhere. So if your battery is dying out, you can save it with solar power.
Also another advantage is that you can follow the motto “Go green” while saving the electricity which in turn protects the environment.
Frequently Use your iPhone:
We all know that iphone is a precious thing for anyone but that does not mean that you restrict its use to protect it from daily wear and tear. It is best valued with optimum use of it. Not using the iPhone for a long time can reduce its battery life. Therefore one should use it regularly and change iPhone battery at least once every 6 months.
Apple has also strongly recommends that you should charge your iPhone when the battery is completely finished i.e. 0%.
So follow these tips and you can easily save your iPhone battery life and enjoy it for long.
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Get Laptop Battery Information With BatteryInfoView
Get Detailed Information about your Laptops and Netbook Battery
:BatteryInfoView is a small freeware utility for laptops and netbook computers that displays the current status and information about your battery. With BatteryInfoView you can view all the details like battery name, manufacture name, serial number, manufacture date, current power state (charging/discharging), current battery capacity, full charged capacity, voltage, charge/discharge rate, and more…
BatteryInfoView also provides a log window, which adds a new log line containing the battery status every 30 seconds or any other time interval that you choose.
Some useful “BatteryInfoView Hotkeys
- Battery Information: (Press F7 to switch into this mode).
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- Advanced Options window (Press F9)
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Tips to Speed Up Microsoft Windows Vista
Gadget Play
If you want to display a Gadget on your desktop instead of the Sidebar, right-click the Gadget, select "Detach from Sidebar," and just drag the Gadget where you want it on your screen. To reattach it, right-click it again and select "Attach to Sidebar."
Throw Out the Old
The new Windows Photo Gallery is a cool tool, but its storage demands can become hefty. That's because when you alter a photo, Vista saves a copy of the original. If you want to save space by deleting originals, open the File menu, select Options, and select an interval under "Move originals to Recycle Bin after." The choices range from one day to one year.
Get Out the Map
The Map Network Drive option has disappeared from the Windows Explorer window, but it's a snap to get it back. Simply click the Alt key while in Windows Explorer for the familiar classic File menu. Or you can right-click on Computer (either in the Start menu or in the Explorer menu), and select Map Network Drive.
Feed Your News Addiction
Feed Headlines is one of the most useful Sidebar Gadgets Vista launched with, but you'll probably want more than the four default Microsoft feeds that Vista offers. To include a feed in the Sidebar, simply add a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed to Internet Explorer 7. It will then show up in the "Display this feed" drop-down menu for the Feed Headlines gadget
Case Closed
If you're using a notebook PC, you can specify how Vista reacts when you shut its lid. Click Start > Control Panel, then click on Mobile PC. Under Power Options, click on "Change what closing the lid does." Next to "When I close the lid:" specify the resulting action when you shut your notebook. You can choose different options for when it's plugged in and when it's using battery power.
Exit Strategy
Windows Mail doesn't automatically remove messages from your Deleted Items folder when you exit it, but you can set it up to do so. Go to Tools > Options, then select the Advanced tab. Click the Maintenance button at the bottom of the tab, then check the box next to "Empty messages from the 'Deleted Items' folder on exit" and click Close > Apply > OK
Know When to Fold(er) Them
Vista makes searching through your files a lot easier. One way: It offers you the option to save searches as Search Folders for future use. When you perform a search, click the Save Search button in the results window, then name your search and click Save. Later, click on your username on the Start menu, and click on Searches under Favorite Links to see your folder of saved searches. Double-click a saved search to run it again.
Time on Your Side
The expanded parental controls in Vista let you restrict which Web sites your kids can visit, which games they can play, and which programs they can use. You can also limit the times of day your children can use the computer. Assuming you've already set up a user account for your child, go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety, then click "Set up parental controls for any user." Select the child's account, click on "Time limits," and then click on the blue box next to "Blocked." On the time grid, you can then "draw" in the hours you want access to be denied.
New Start
The new Windows Defender antispyware program not only protects your system from rogue applications, but it can also help you prune your slate of programs that load at startup, which can affect performance. Open Windows Defender (from the taskbar or Start > All Programs), then click Tools > Software Explorer. Highlight the name of each program you don't want running at startup, then click Disable > Yes.
Sight for Sore Eyes
The option to adjust the size of onscreen items such as icons resides in a slightly different place in Vista than in XP. Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Personalization, and click on "Change size of on-screen items." In addition to the 96dpi and 120dpi settings, you can click the Custom DPI button to select even larger scales
Tips for Microsoft Windows XP
No More "100_1202.jpg"
You don't have to live with the meaningless numeric filenames your digital camera assigns to the pictures it stores, and you don't have to rename each one by hand in My Pictures. Instead, you can rename a whole photo shoot with a few strokes. In Windows Explorer, highlight the range of photos you want to rename, right-click, and choose Rename from the pop-up menu. Type in a new filename (such as "Holidays 2006"), and XP will apply that name to all the photos you've selected, adding a parenthetical number after each—"(1)," "(2)," and so on—to distinguish among them
Windows With the Same View
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Windows XP tries to anticipate the preferred way to display files listed in Windows Explorer (thumbnails in My Pictures, simple filenames in My Documents, and so on). If you prefer that all folders be displayed the same way (for instance, showing full details of each file), setting these preferences for each folder can be a drag. But XP lets you set your preferences globally. Go to Start > My Documents, click on the Views icon (to the right of the Search and Folders icons), and select your desired view. Then click on the Tools menu and scroll down to Folder Options. Select the View tab, then click the Apply to All Folders button.
Keep XP to Yourself
On your XP-based system, you can grant limited access to someone who needs it for a brief time. Do this by setting up a Guest User account. In Control Panel, double-click User Accounts, then click on Guest (under "pick an account to change") to enable a guest account. The person won't be able to access password-protected files, and won't be able to install or delete programs. When the guest is finished, go through the same steps, but this time select "Turn off the Guest account."
Remember the Alphabet
It's hard to believe, but as you add programs to your PC, Windows XP doesn't automatically alphabetize the list of apps it shows when you select All Programs from the Start menu. But you can tell XP to sort them alphabetically by simply right-clicking on a program or folder name in the All Programs list and selecting Sort by Name in the pop-up menu.
Keep Your Drive Tidy
Windows XP has a handy disk-defragmentation utility to keep your hard drive humming at optimal speed. You can schedule XP to run it automatically. Choose Performance and Maintenance from the Control Panel and select Scheduled Tasks. Double-click on Add Scheduled Task to launch XP's Scheduled Task wizard. Select Next, click on the Browse button, enter %systemroot%\system32\defrag.exe in the "File name" field and click Open. Select the frequency (weekly is fine) and time of day (when your PC will be on, but ideally when you won't be using it). Make sure the "Open advanced properties"¦" box is checked, and click on Finish. In the Run box of the advanced properties pane, add the drive letter you want to defrag to the end of the command in the window (be sure to include a space before the drive letter), and click OK.
Tips for Google Gmail
It's a Plus
Use a plus symbol and a keyword after your account name and before the "@gmail.com" in your e-mail address for mail coming from a particular source, such as a forum or an e-tailer you want to highlight (for example, john.doe+forum@gmail.com). You can then set up a filter to route mail sent to these special addresses (especially useful if spammers get hold of the address).
Your Own Domain
It's easy to set Gmail up to send mail that looks like it's coming from one of your other addresses. Go to Settings > Accounts, then click on "Add another e-mail address." A small window will pop up asking to input your name and the other e-mail address. Then click Next Step > Send Verification, and Gmail will send an e-mail to that other account with a link to click to confirm that you want to be able to send mail using its address in Gmail.
Feed the Gmail Beast
You can set up your RSS reader to notify you when you receive new Gmail messages. Enter https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom as the name of the feed, then your username and password. Note that not all feed readers will be compatible with the Gmail feed, so your mileage may vary.
Print It!
One of Gmail's key innovations was to show groups of related messages as one long thread. Unfortunately, the default option for printing a thread is to print all the messages, which can get out of hand if you have a back-and-forth exchange that features a couple dozen replies. To print a single e-mail from a thread, open the message and click the downward arrow at the top right-hand corner of the message. Select Print from the drop-down menu, and the message will open in a new window. The Print dialog box will also pop up to allow you to print the message.
Office Alternative
Google has recently integrated its Google Spreadsheet and Google Docs apps into Gmail, and they're both compatible with popular Microsoft Office file formats. When you receive a Microsoft Excel XLS file or a Microsoft Word DOC file as a Gmail attachment, you can click "Open as a Google spreadsheet" or "Open as a Google document" to view the file. Note that you will have to create a free Google Docs & Spreadsheets account before you view these file types.
Tips for MSN Hotmail
Stretch Your Storage
If you use Hotmail as your primary e-mail account, you will be surprised how quickly you reach its 1GB storage limit. Make sure you have room for new messages by dragging old ones into a Local Folder in Outlook Express. This lets you archive past e-mail on your hard drive, leaving plenty of room on the server for new mail.
Watch for Spoofs
An e-mail may have a legit-looking originating address in the message header, but it could be a fraudulent e-mail replicating an authentic "From" line (a scam known as "spoofing"). But Hotmail lets you see the entire message header, including the real originating e-mail address. Simply click on Options (in the upper right of the Hotmail window), then select Mail > Mail Display Settings. Next to Message Headers, click Full.
Manage Your Safe List
Hotmail tries to anticipate what is junk mail and what isn't, but sometimes correspondence you want (such as newsletters) winds up being blocked. To make sure mail from a particular person or domain makes it to your in-box, add the sender to your Safe List. Click on Options > Mail > Junk E-Mail Protection. Select Safe List, type in the address or domain to allow, and click Add.
We Prefer Outlook, Too
If you have Outlook 2003 loaded on your PC, you can use it to send, receive, and categorize your Hotmail e-mail. In Outlook, select E-mail Accounts from the Tools menu. Click on "Add a new e-mail account," and click on Next. Select HTTP and click Next, then fill in your Hotmail username and password, and select Hotmail as the HTTP Mail Service Provider. (Make sure the "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" check box is unselected.) Click Next, then Finish.
Receive Hotmail Alerts on the Go
You can have Hotmail notify you of new messages via a range of supported mobile devices if you also have an MSN Mobile account. (Sign up at mobile.msn.com.) In Hotmail, click on Options and select Mail. Click on Mobile Alerts, and choose your preferences.
Tips for Yahoo! Mail Beta
The Keys
Here are some hotkeys to speed up your mailing tasks: Type m to refresh and check your messages list, n to create a new message, r to reply to a selected message, and a to reply all to a message.
Find an Attachment
If you need to search for a specific attachment you received or sent via e-mail, and you know the filename or even some of the words found within the attachment, you can do a file search by entering attachment:keyword in the search bar. You can also search by attachment file type by inputting it in the search bar (for example, attachmenttype:doc).
It's All Subjective
If you've always wondered where spammers get their wacky subject lines, Yahoo Mail Beta can give you a taste. When you compose a new message, leave the subject line blank and hit the Subject button. Your subject line may be filled in with such perplexing inanities like "dodging serendipities." Keep clicking the Subject button until you find one suitably nonsensical to send to your friend.
Needle in a Haystack
If you have thousands of messages and a new e-mail comes in that's incorrectly dated and disappears into your Inbox, use the following key combination so you don't have to scroll through messages hunting it down. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up Arrow (or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down Arrow) pops up a dialog box that lets you search by subject or sender, or whether the message is flagged or unread.
When Minus Adds Up
You can narrow down your search results by placing "-" at the beginning of specific words at the end of your query to eliminate messages you don't want to retrieve. For instance, typing in recipes -chocolate will find all messages containing the word "recipe" that don't also contain the word "chocolate."
Tips for iTunes
(Un)check Your Options
If you'd rather see what year a music track was released instead of what genre it is, click View > View Options. You'll then see nearly 30 options for what you can display for your iTunes library. Just check the box next to what you want to see, and uncheck (or leave blank) the box next to what you don't want to see.
Not Down With AAC
Not surprisingly, iTunes rips CDs into Apple's AAC file format by default. If you would prefer to have MP3 files, click Edit > Preferences, then select the Advanced tab. Select the Importing tab, and change the Import Using selection from "AAC Encoder" to "MP3 Encoder." Adjust the Setting selection to the bit rate you want your files to be ripped at, and click OK.
Fade Out
hate having iTunes mix each track of your iTune libery into the next one when you are listening ? click Edit > preference then select then the playback tab. uncheck
"crossfade playback " nad click OK this will insert apause as one song finishes playing and the next one begins
Double Trouble
For a number of reasons, you may have more than one copy of a given music track on your hard drive. To find multiple copies of the same song quickly so you can prune your collection, click View > Show Duplicates.
Proper Seasoning
If you've paid for a season's worth of your favorite show's episodes from the iTunes Store, you can have your iTunes app download new episodes automatically. Click Edit > Preferences, then click on the Store tab. Check the box next to "Automatically download pre-purchased content," and you'll never have to remember to download the latest episode of The Office again.
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