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- BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issues
- A new BlackBerry patent application published just yesterday would improve the ability of BlackBerry devices to read voltage levels. The patent app is entitled System and Method for Managing Battery Slump. As we often do when discussing patents, let's read the Abstract...
- Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., Signal, Battery, Monitoring, Trigger, RIM BlackBerry, Transmission, Patent App, Abstract, PA, Battery Voltage, ADC 600, Engineering, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
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- Dell Inspiron i1470-3282CRD
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.At what cost to battery life? That's the question we're left asking Dell after testing its Inspiron 1470-3282, a $729 laptop sold at Best...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron, laptop computer, processor, Dell Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-21
- CoolBook 2.16 (Mac)
- CoolBook lets you monitor CPU frequency, voltage and temperature. Registered users may set voltage and frequency manually. This can dramatically reduce heat dissipation, and fan noise. Use your MacBook with full performance without battery. This will reduce battery aging.
- Tags: Frequency, Apple Macintosh, Battery, Voltage, Magnus Lundholm, Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Asus UL50AG-RBBBK05
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. This year has undoubtedly been defined, if not by Netbooks, then by the growth of affordable thin laptops that shave size--and even...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, ASUS, laptop computer, processor
- Product reviews 2009-11-11
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- BatteryPlus - BlackBerry Battery Booster & Manager 1.2 (Mobile)
- BatteryPlus - BlackBerry Battery Booster & Manager * What is BatteryPlus (BlackBerry Battery Booster & Manager) ? BatteryPlus is a powerful battery boosting tool and power management application specially designed for BlackBerry. BatteryPlus automatically detects the type of your device (it differentiates between BlackBerry Storm, Tour, Bold and Curve series)...
- Tags: Mobile, Battery, RIM BlackBerry, eMobiStudio.com, BatteryPlus, Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Toshiba Satellite T135-S1310
- How much of a difference does a single-core versus dual-core ultralow-voltage processor make on a thin-and-light these days? You may not be paying attention under the hood--and that's not your fault, because it's hard to notice the differences based on processor name and Intel sticker-logos--but you should know that it...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Toshiba Satellite, thin-and-light, processor, Intel Corp., T135-S1310, Toshiba Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-10-22
- Bat Screensaver (for 4.7+) (Mobile)
- Highly configurable Bat-symbol screen saver and charging monitor.The Bat Meter fills the Shadow Bat or bat outline with blue as the battery charges. There''s also a small battery icon meter that fills and changes color, a numeric %, and a battery temperature readout that turns red and sounds an alarm...
- Tags: Screensaver, Mobile, Battery, lsPhone, There', Bat', Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
- Bat Screensaver (for 4.2.1-4.6.x) (Mobile)
- Highly configurable Bat-symbol screen saver and charging monitor.The Bat Meter fills the Shadow Bat or bat outline with blue as the battery charges. There''s also a small battery icon meter that fills and changes color, a numeric %, and a battery temperature readout that turns red and sounds an alarm...
- Tags: Screensaver, Mobile, Battery, lsPhone, There', Bat', Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
- Can a laptop ever be too thin?
- Ralph Lauren is on the receiving end of a blogosphere backlash today over an apparent Photoshop job gone awry. It turns out there is such a thing as too thin. I mention this because yesterday both Dell and Sony introduced new laptops that give new meaning to ultra-thin. The trend...
- Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- I Charge Cool (for 4.2.1-4.6.x) (Mobile)
- Usually when you want to see how a charge is coming along, you have to walk over to the phone, click it, and read a tiny indicator.With I Charge Cool, you can see your charging status at a glance, and your LED notifications are still visible and unaffected.I Charge Cool''s...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, lsPhone, There', Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- I Charge Cool (for 4.7+) (Mobile)
- Usually when you want to see how a charge is coming along, you have to walk over to the phone, click it, and read a tiny indicator.With I Charge Cool, you can see your charging status at a glance, and your LED notifications are still visible and unaffected.I Charge Cool''s...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, lsPhone, There', Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- Meters (for 4.2.1-4.6.x) (Mobile)
- View 8 system meters by toggling through 2 to 4 screens depending on resolution:Battery Meter: Level, voltage, temperature, charging status and speed, warning messages such as too-hot, too-cold, or too low for certain functions such as camera light, WiFi, or calls. Status periodically rechecked.Memory Meters: Both RAM volatile and Flash...
- Tags: Meter, Mobile, lsPhone, Flash Memory, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- Meters (for 4.7) 1.2.0.47 (Mobile)
- View 8 system meters by toggling through 2 to 4 screens depending on resolution:Battery Meter: Level, voltage, temperature, charging status and speed, warning messages such as too-hot, too-cold, or too low for certain functions such as camera light, WiFi, or calls. Status periodically rechecked.Memory Meters: Both RAM volatile and Flash...
- Tags: Meter, Mobile, lsPhone, Flash Memory, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- Asus UL30A-A1 (Core 2 Duo Su7300 1.3GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)
- Whether CULV thin-and-light laptops will ever fully find a spot between the Netbook world and the full-featured laptop world, they are most definitely a category that's growing every day. Dropping an optical drive and throwing a low-voltage processor alongside a long-lasting battery is the trend of 2009, although the low-voltage...
- Tags: Processors, Notebooks, hard drive, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, ASUS, battery, processor
- Product reviews 2009-09-30
- HP Envy 13
- Even a cursory glance will tell you the HP Envy 13 is a very nicely made premium 13-inch laptop. It's a solid slab of aluminum and magnesium, etched with interesting visual details, and filled with capable components, such as a dual-core low-voltage Intel CPU and discrete ATI graphics. It's...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Envy 13, Hewlett-Packard Co., Voodoo, Apple MacBook
- Product reviews 2009-09-30
- ZDNet readers pick Canon as favorite camera brand
- I'm a Canon shooter but they're all great.At least when it comes to the dSLRs. I bought into Canon because they had the best price/performance for my needs. But everyone else has great equipment too. Though I think I would limit myself to Canon or Nikon due to their greater...
- Tags: Branding, Additional Note, Canon Inc., Nikon Corp., camera, brand
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Can you upgrade an old XP PC to Windows 7? Should you?
- You answered the first questionYou can make the upgrade, with significant headaches.You left the second question completely unanswered.If you take the Microsoft guidelines seriously(which I never do, because they seem to be written by someone who is into flagellation) many Windows XP machines should be able to be upgraded successfully...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, old XP PC, XP PC, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Hardware Monitor 4.8 (Mac)
- Hardware Monitor is an application to read out all accessible hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. Currently more than 100 different Macintosh hardware sensors and more than 200 hard drive temperature sensors are supported. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. It can also...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Sensor, Hardware, Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme, Hardware Monitor
- Software downloads 2009-09-21
- MiniBatteryLogger 1.8.5 (Mac)
- MiniBatteryLogger monitors laptop batteries. Graph charge, amperage and voltage over time. Save monitoring sessions to disk for later analysis. Save snapshots of battery capacity and cycle count to evaluate battery decay. Monitor network batteries using Bonjour standalone battd daemon available. Compare your battery against the shared archive data....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Battery, Emeraldion Lodge, Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-09-06
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