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Review: Exspect Pop-up Travel Speaker, USB & Rechargeable

February 27, 2010
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I don’t usually do a lot of hardware reviews on this site, as much as I would like to, at least, so here’s one of my latest acquisitions.
It was sitting there in the store window as I went to purchase my Apple Magic Mouse (which I sold again the day after for half the price…), [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Extends Laptop Battery Life

November 21, 2009
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Who would have thought, there’s actually something that Internet Explorer 8 does better than the other browsers
When it comes to battery life on your laptop, surfing with Internet Explorer 8 is likely to provide you with 8% more minutes for surfing than if using Firefox 3.5.2. Safari 4 in Windows is the worst [...]

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Coin-Sized “Eternity” Batteries With Radioactive Contents

October 17, 2009
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This is some pretty cool stuff. A team of scientists from the University of Missouri reports a break-through in battery technology. The scientists have created a battery with the size of a small coin, able to contain a million times as much capacity than a regular battery and last for hundreds of years.
It contain a [...]

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FIFA 10 – iPhone Game Review (vs Real Football 09)

October 13, 2009

FIFA 10 for iPhone was released on the App Store earlier this month for $9.90 or DKK 59 if you’re buying through the danish iTunes Store like I did (that’s $11.50). I tried it out just so you don’t have to – in case it sucked Here’s what I think about [...]

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How’s Your iPhone Battery With iPhone OS 3.1 Doing?

September 25, 2009
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The recent iPhone OS 3.1 release just a few weeks ago seems to have made things worse for a bunch of iPhone 3G/3GS users: Their battery drains really fast (warning: almost 1000 posts in that thread, might take you some time to read through all of them…).
The problem is apparently so huge that Apple decided [...]

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Why Does Laptop Batteries Degrade And Lose Capacity Over Time?

August 25, 2009
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The battery in your shiny new MacBook, or whatever laptop you might be running, is most likely the lithium-ion type battery. Compared to other batteries, lithium-ion batteries carries a lot of energy in a very small space, a one kilogram battery can supply 150 watt for an hour.
Lithium-ion batteries degrades over time. No matter how [...]

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