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How to prolong the battery

life of your laptop

Your laptop is a vital aspect of your business.

Its well being is crucial.

One thing that you need more than other things for running your business is your laptop. And for the laptop to be functional, its battery needs to be healthy. Here are some tips which will help in prolonging the life of your laptop’s battery.

Repetitive and regular full discharges can reduce the life span of your battery. The Lithium ions of the battery will lose the charge capacity when partially recharged. Experts recommend you to recharge your battery at a 10 to 20 per cent charge level.

If you wish to store your battery for long it should neither be fully charged or fully discharged. The optimal charge level is 40 per cent. Storing the battery with a low charge will result in permanent damage or battery failure. Disconnect the battery and store it in a cool, dry place.

Since your business is so dependant on your laptop, this is less likely to happen. But still, do not store a charged battery dormant for too long. You should use it at least once every two weeks once you have charged it fully.

Keep the battery contacts clean. Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened. This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.

Hibernating your computer is a better option than putting it on a standby. Hibernating function saves more power than Stand-by.

Functions like modifying and cooling your CPU and dimming the brightness of the laptop screen, which are generally left unused enable saving power and thereby, your battery so try using them. Though not much but it will help in saving some amount of your battery life.

Do not multitask. When your laptop is running on battery do one thing at a time when you’re on battery. Working on a spreadsheet, using your email, listening to your favourite music or putting a CD or a DVD in your hard drive is not very healthy for your battery. It drains out a battery faster.
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So guys from Maemo Community have overclocked their Nokia N900 to 900MHz. Here’s a guide on how to overclock your Nokia N900 to 900MHz.
Warning: Please do it at your own risk. We do not take the responsibility for your curiousness. Do it only if you are absolutely sure of.
Okay so now, even after the lame warning you guys are reading? Cool. Go ahead with the tutorial.
Step 1: Download the kernel.
Step 2: Now put your kernel file into the Maemo Flasher folder. Download the Maemo Flasher from here. The Maemo Flasher can be found at C:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5
Step 3: Now lets set up your N900 to flashing mode:
Switch off the Maemo device
Press and hold down the ‘u’ key
Connect a USB cable between the Maemo device and host PC while holding down the ‘u’ key
When the USB cable is connected, it powers the Maemo device and sets it to flashing mode
When the USB icon appears in the upper right-hand corner, the Maemo device is in flashing mode
Release the ‘u’ key
If performed correctly, the USB image is visible in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
The Maemo device waits indefinitely for Flasher-3.5 input when it is in flashing mode. If flashing is tried without first setting the Maemo device to flashing mode, image flashing may fail because the Maemo device may not be able to change to the flashing mode automatically.
Step 4: Now run the command on windows:
flasher-3.5.exe -k zImage-900mhz -f -R

Step 5: Make 6 packets of Magi. It should take roughly around 10-12 minutes to flash.

The honeymoon may be over for some iPad owners, who are now reporting issues with the device’s WiFi connection. The issues include claims of short wireless range, connection problems, and slow speeds, according to TechCrunch and SlashGear.
You can check out a whole slew of complaints over at Apple’s support forum, and I’ve chatted with several iPad owners who are having similar issues. It’s too early to tell how many iPad users are actually affected — but given that it wasn’t too hard for me to find other users having wireless trouble, it’s very likely that this could end up being a big problem for Apple.
One user writes:
Having same problem with wifi being weak and constantly fluctuating. I have to keep entering my password to regain access to my network after having lost a signal. Two iPhones and two MacBooks showing full signal with no interrupts. Certainly hope this is fixable. Too pricey of a toy for it to have this issue right of box.
It’s important to note that all of their other Apple devices work fine on their network. Clearly, it’s the iPad specifically having issues, and not the network.
Another user ran some speed tests on his iPad, and compared it to the speeds of his iPhone:
Ok. I used speedtest.net app both on iPhone 3GS and the new iPad. I clearly see the difference.
iPad download speed is 1.83 megabits/sec whereas
iPhone 3GS download speed is 14.77 megabits/sec
Upload speed seems comparable.
The speed difference is massive, and is likely related to the reported reception issues.
Given the wide variety of networking hardware available to consumers, plus the difficulty of cramming all of the iPad’s hardware into its slim case, there’s definitely the potential for wireless issues. Unlike the iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad runs the faster 802.11n WiFi specification — which requires a larger internal antenna as well.
We’ll be keeping an eye on these wireless issues, because Apple certainly will be forced to respond to the user complaints. A software fix may not be enough to resolve the problems, and Apple may have to institute some sort of hardware recall or exchange to deal with dissatisfied customers.