Quick Tip: Saving Battery Life

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Battery saving utility for Microsoft
smartphone released: Auto Switching
Bluetooth BETA

Battery saving utility for Microsoft
smartphone released: Auto Switching
Bluetooth BETA 01/27/2004 10:21 AM
Unfortunately HTC Voyager model of Microsoft smartphone, branded among others as "Orange SPV e200", "Qtek 8080", etc - has no ability to switch on the Bluetooth only then when a call is incoming (so that you could use Bluetooth headset to take the call). You can either switch it on (and then it will stay on for ever and suck battery a lot) or you can switch it off (and then you can´t take calls with Bluetooth headset). It seems that this little utility is fixing this problem.

NEC develops a radical quick charge
battery

NEC develops a radical quick charge
battery 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
NEC's organic radical cathode technology has lead to the development of a quick charge battery.

Broadband: A life-saving technology

Broadband: A life-saving technology 07/26/2004 07:04 AM
From public safety to health care, broadband is becoming a key tool.

Tax Saving & Life Insurance Buy Online

Tax Saving & Life Insurance Buy Online 02/01/2005 09:21 PM
Press Trust Feb 1 2005 9:54PM GMT

Communications Experiment Life-Saving
Goals

Communications Experiment Life-Saving
Goals 05/19/2004 11:44 AM
Two months from now, a remarkable and perhaps path-breaking experiment in technology and human cooperation will attempt to address the communications problems following calamities. On a remote piece of land in Hawaii, a civilian-military team will install and test a communications system that could make a huge difference in future conflicts and other disasters, human-made or natural.

Brothers find life-saving donors

Brothers find life-saving donors 07/12/2004 10:38 AM
The parents of four boys with a life-threatening illness are celebrating finding bone marrow donors for their sons.

saving a week of your life from Bill
Clinton

saving a week of your life from Bill
Clinton 06/23/2004 03:37 PM
The Condensed Bill Clinton: Slate reads My Life so you don't have to.

Girl loses life saving boyfriend

Girl loses life saving boyfriend 05/07/2004 07:45 AM
A teenage girl lost her life saving her boyfriend from the path of an oncoming train, an inquest hears.

RSS Reader is a life raft saving us from
getting lost in a sea of useless
information

RSS Reader is a life raft saving us from
getting lost in a sea of useless
information 09/03/2004 01:33 PM
WebDevInfo Sep 3 2004 5:43PM GMT

Seriously Confused About iPod Battery
Life

Seriously Confused About iPod Battery
Life 09/24/2004 01:42 AM
I don't understand my iPod. By Jason Levine, Q Daily News (via MyAppleMenu)

Laptops with the Longest Battery Life?

Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? 08/03/2004 05:47 PM

Maximizing the Life of the G4's Battery

Maximizing the Life of the G4's Battery 04/06/2005 11:25 PM
Is it best to leave my PowerBook plugged into a power source at home, or to leave it unplugged so it can discharge and then recharge it as necessary?

Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your
Life? Parts of It, Maybe

Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your
Life? Parts of It, Maybe 04/06/2005 09:28 PM
Panasonic is introducing inexpensive disposable AA and AAA batteries that it says last up to twice as long as alkalines. How well do they work?

IDF 2004: Intel eyes all-day battery
life

IDF 2004: Intel eyes all-day battery
life 09/08/2004 09:42 PM
PC Pro Sep 9 2004 2:16AM GMT

PalmOne, Battery Tech, ASMC on Your Mac
Life

PalmOne, Battery Tech, ASMC on Your Mac
Life 07/21/2004 02:22 PM
Wednesday's Your Mac Life QuickTime Webcast radio show will feature PalmOne director of Web publishing Rick Whooten who will talk about a new online resource center targeting Mac users. Battery Technology Inc. (BTI)'s VP of marketing and sales Dave Sarazen will be on hand to discuss new high-capacity batteries for iPods. And Kevin Langdon, CEO of Crywolf Computers, will discuss The Apple Specialists Marketing Co-Op (ASMC), a new group of Apple Specialist resellers. Peter Cohen of MacCentral.com and Macworld magazine will have all the latest gaming news. If you have questions for any of tonight's guests, please send them along. The show is Webcast live from 5:30PM to 8:00PM Pacific, 8:30PM to 11:00PM Eastern, and is available in an audio video feed or an audio-only feed, depending on your bandwidth.

Unhappy with your iPod's battery life?
Sue Apple

Unhappy with your iPod's battery life?
Sue Apple 12/24/2003 02:28 PM
Blatantly attempting to cash in on this whole pseudo-controversy about the iPod's battery life (e.g. "The iPod's Dirty Little Secret, etc.), a law firm in...

Can't Get Longer Battery Life, So How
About Faster Charges?

Can't Get Longer Battery Life, So How
About Faster Charges? 03/29/2005 05:32 PM
One of the biggest issues holding back portable technologies is the battery life question. While computing power seems to increase rapidly, battery power has been unable to keep up. While there are many efforts underway to improve battery life, most don't measure up (unless you want to increase the risk that your battery might explode). Fuel cells don't appear to be the answer either. However, just because you can't increase battery life, it doesn't mean other improvements can't be made. Decre asing power consumption is one area that is getting plenty of attention, but the rechargeable nature of batteries is another interesting space. Toshiba has announced a new technology which they claim can charge batteries much faster. They claim this technology only requires a one minute charge to get a battery up to 80% power -- which could go a long way to solving certain battery life problems. If you can just do a quick "power up," then many other issues are less noticeable. Still, there aren't many details about this new technology, and lots of stuff in labs (and press releases) don't seem to act quite the same way in the real world (assuming they actually reach the real world).

Keyboard with 512k of memory, 700h
battery life

Keyboard with 512k of memory, 700h
battery life 08/31/2004 01:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: The AlphaSmart Neo is a full-sized keyboard with a little LCD screen on the top. It acts as a word-processor, letting you type into its 512k cache while it draws power from 3 AA batteries. When you get back to your Mac or PC, you just dump the text over USB or IR. The thing runs for 700 hours on a 3 AA batts and costs $250, and weighs about 2 lbs.

My only complaint about this thing is the storage: 512k? I know that's a whole novel and then some, but geez, flash-RAM is so cheap now -- why not just give it a SD slot and I could use an old 64MB card from my last camera? Link (via Engadget)

Update: Chris Taylor points out that AlphaSmart has a model that supports memory cards -- and it comes with WiFi and PalmOS.

Panasonic SL-CT820 CD Player with 220
Hour Battery Life

Panasonic SL-CT820 CD Player with 220
Hour Battery Life 09/14/2004 04:52 PM

Panasonic's new "SL-CT820" has the world's longest battery life for MP3/CD players: 220 hours.

As you would imagine, there are a couple technicalities to this figure. First of all, you need to be playing WMA files; your maximum battery life with MP3 is 210 hours. (Oh damn). You also need to use one of those external batteries - you know, the ones you somehow connect with a cable to the CD player. But even if you choose not to, you still get a 130 hour playback time of MP3 audio. Pretty swell, considering even the latest hard drive-based players get, what, 20-some hours of playback?

Researchers Seek Truth in the Secret
Life of the Battery

Researchers Seek Truth in the Secret
Life of the Battery 12/28/2004 04:55 PM
A new "gas gauge" chip for laptop batteries provides much more accurate readouts of time left.

IDF, Fall 2004: Intel eyes all-day
battery life

IDF, Fall 2004: Intel eyes all-day
battery life 09/09/2004 04:52 PM
PC Pro Sep 9 2004 8:12PM GMT

Apple Rolls Out New iPod with Extended
Battery Life (Reuters)

Apple Rolls Out New iPod with Extended
Battery Life (Reuters) 07/19/2004 09:29 AM
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) on Monday said it introduced its new version of its successful iPod digital music player, boasting extended battery life.

BatMax Starts Production and Sales of
the World's First Battery Life Extender
for Mobile Phones.

BatMax Starts Production and Sales of
the World's First Battery Life Extender
for Mobile Phones. 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
BatMax, the first cellphone battery life booster that extends the mobile phone battery life and reduces charging time is now in production and is currently being shipped to both U.S. and international retailers and wholesalers. [PRWEB Jan 22, 2005]

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain."" 04/29/2004 03:19 AM

TechRestore, Inc. Announces the iPod
Battery Freedom Service - Lifetime iPod
Battery Replacement.

TechRestore, Inc. Announces the iPod
Battery Freedom Service - Lifetime iPod
Battery Replacement. 06/22/2005 03:01 AM
TechRestore, Inc. announced today that they have begun offering a new lifetime iPod battery replacement service. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

Technical CEOs Add 'PRO Quick Coaches'
When They Hire Sales Professionals: New
PRO Products Compliment 'CEO Quick
Coaches' to Win More Business

Technical CEOs Add 'PRO Quick Coaches'
When They Hire Sales Professionals: New
PRO Products Compliment 'CEO Quick
Coaches' to Win More Business 08/17/2004 02:04 AM
PRO Quick Coach products enable technical CEOs to seemlessly integrate new sales professionals into their companies while simultaneously running their early-stage, small businesses. [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:

An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.

Link

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories 07/23/2004 09:58 AM
LifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews, present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Saving the Net

Saving the Net 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
A bunch of Net Heavyweights tried to explain to the US government this week how its lack of understanding of the Internet is going to kill it. Stupid network, yes! Stupid government, no! World of Ends, yes! End of the e-World, no!...

Saving TiVo

Saving TiVo 08/30/2004 12:15 PM

I'm quoted in this Kin Girard article in this mnth's issue of Business 2.0. Only problem is - you can't see the entire article unless your subscribe.

Oh well.

Anyway - here's the opener to the article.

It's been written off by the experts. But thanks to a Silicon Valley software legend, the company that invented digital video recording says it's about to change the way we watch TV -- again.

By Kim Girard, September 01, 2004

Obituaries for the nearly departed TiVo Inc. (TIVO) have been written up for months now, all ready to go when the sad day comes.

They're poignant, these eulogies. There's the part about how feisty little TiVo created a beloved and revolutionary product -- the digital video recorder -- on a shoestring. The word TiVo, like Google and Xerox (XRX) and only a handful of other product names, went on to be used to describe what the gadget does -- in this case, learning what you like to watch, recording similar stuff for later viewing, and allowing you to pause or otherwise time-shift live action. TiVo promised to transform television, advertising -- hell, the culture itself, not least by sparing humanity from having to sit through commercials. Alas, it burned through $567 million between 1999 and mid-2004, and was run down by huge and ruthless competitors that mimicked its technology. But take heart, the eulogists conclude: TiVo will always be with us -- as a verb, if not a company.

There's at least one problem with that scenario, however. His name is Arthur van Hoff. He's an obscure but revered high priest of software coding. And he thinks he's devised a way to pull TiVo back from death's door.

[Business 2.0]

Here's my quote:

" 'Strangeberry works and it's totally cool', says Marc Canter, co- founder of Web media tool maker Macromedia, who was given an early view of the technology."

It does. I am. Here comes TiVO - again.

The only question remains - is it pronounced TeeeeeeVOH or TehVoh. Inquiring minds wanna know.

Saving for College

Saving for College 01/22/2004 11:34 AM
College costs can be managed with proper planning.

"Saving Face"

"Saving Face" 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
This love story about two Asian-American lesbians is a true romantic comedy. But don't worry, it's not "My Big Fat Chinese Wedding."

Saving Grace

Saving Grace 07/22/2004 06:23 AM
Rules may be made to be broken, but promises aren't. The State of Grace Document upgrades the traditional contract for a more personal workplace.

Saving the Internet from itself

Saving the Internet from itself 03/19/2005 02:34 AM
I don't know if the Internet will eventually buckle under the weight of junk traffic, but I do know that I'd rather an Internet that barely works than one that works the way that CIO.com's "expert panel" envisions.

Saving the Game - E3

Saving the Game - E3 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Disc-Go-Tech brings digital media back into play. [PRWEB May 8, 2004]

Saving student $$$

Saving student $$$ 07/31/2004 02:05 AM
USA Today Jul 31 2004 6:05AM GMT

ASR/ASQ (Air Saving Valve)

ASR/ASQ (Air Saving Valve) 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
SMC Corporation of America, the world’s largest manufacturer of pneumatic automation products has announced the release of series ASR/ASQ air saving valve. [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

Ideas for Saving the Internet

Ideas for Saving the Internet 12/31/2003 10:50 PM

101 Ways to Save the Internet: Some great ideas here.

Create the all-in-one inbox Email, phone calls, instant messages — they should all go into a single app. [...] Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move? [...] Release Episode III on the Net It's going straight to video anyway. [...] Upgrade to IPv6

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Saving Energy Without Derision

Saving Energy Without Derision 09/18/2004 01:15 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader George W. Maschke says,

Saving Energy Without Derision (5 mb PDF) is a new (and free) e-book by former Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Dr. Alan P. Zelicoff. This book is intended to be a real-world, no-nonsense, thoroughly documented collection of easy-to-implement recommendations to help the average thoughtful person to pick the "low-hanging fruit" of conservation and renewable energy. The author is after the easy 75% of actions we can all take (but almost uniformly ignore) that most certainly make a difference in energy costs (after all that's what most people care about) and adjuring a bit of unnecessary adverse impact on the environment (which a few folks actually think is important beyond the mere dollar valuation).

The author (who welcomes comments at zalan8587@qwest.net) intends to continuously update the book (consistent with readership interest) and address many new topics. For example, next on his list is an analysis of the economics and scientific basis of fuel-cell vehicles powered by hydrogen. (Bottom line, he maintains, is that it's a cruel hoax and energy disaster, and far less useful than, for example, heavy hybrid automobiles that get about 50 - 60 miles on an electric charge alone -- which accounts for more than 85% of driving in the US and elsewhere on a daily basis -- and which are available now.)

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