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Tech-Tip: Preserving Gadget Battery Life


Battery life is a huge deal in the technology world , it powers our gadgets and determines the longevity of a product in terms of use till charge or even use till product decides to die out and time to buy new batteries. Many type of gadgets require batteries  it may be a case of re-chargeable batteries for laptops or a AA lithium ion battery that may die in 5-7 months or so. Theres nothing more any geek hates then when his gadget dies due to battery life.

Here some tips to preserving battery gadget life for whatever gadget it may be

Laptop, I-Pod, Phone etc…
1- Display BRIGHTNESS!
One main source on any gadget of energy like ipods or laptop is the screen producing light to omit your  GUI (Graphical User Interface). Now Lowering your screen/display brightness also known as backlit display on laptops, ipods, phones etc can really get you anywere from  30+ min to 1-2 hour of extra life.

2- I-Pod Tip * HOLD IT!

Primarily a tip for the ipod when you listening to songs either on a playlist of just cycling one album , theres no need for your display and controls to be active using battery life. Simply switch your hold switch to on so it turns off your controls not activating your ipod from its sleep or standby.

3- Simply Re-Charge It / Back up

Simple as this tip is , try to carry around your laptop/netbook charger around so you can simply plug it in to a wall outlet to charge up your notebook. Also for those gadgets that require any type of batteries look into buying re-chargable bateries or even just have back up batteries for those just in case situations.

4- Power Off / Sleep!

Another simple yet something not all of us do when your not using your gadget whatever it may be  just TURN IT OFF or even put it into some type of standby or sleep mode to cut it off from using littlest or no amount of energy saving you battery life and alot of extra time to keep using your gadget.

5- Background Mess!

Primarily a tip for laptops or any gadget that runs software or works of an operating system. Simply turn off background services or applications not being used saving more power by having to produce less amounts of energy in order to run them.

Some applications like Instant messaging , e-mail, Various other software that may not need to be running can simply be cleaned off and closed giving more battery life n products like notebooks.

BONUS TIP:

Keep it Cool- Keeping your laptop/ phone or gadget cool and not heated or have heat radiating off the battery will most likely last longer as its cool and isn’t operating as much.

Other than that , always make sure when going on trips etc to bring your chargers or back up batteries, also make it a habit to charge gadgets like laptops or ipod or phones even if their 90% charged just becasue it keeps it up and is always ready to be used.

Hope you enjoyed these tips!

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  • even running Adobe InDesign 2 and Adobe Photoshop 7 the battery lasts for 7,5 hours! this is a great netbook and also runs that older Adobe softwares very fast.
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