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Like what most of the iPhone users have faced, the battery woes didn’t get fixed on iOS5.0.1. It is common to have iPhone being charged at least once a day.
At some point, I’m considering to get a battery case, instead of trying to squeeze little more power juice out of my iPhone by disabling 90% of the push notifications. I also give up that thoughts of getting some unknown China brand battery case, after aware of the China built quality.
Thanks to Amazon, here the Top 6 battery casings that worth to get.
Among most the of the battery case, this is the thinnest and the lightest one. It weights only 2 ounces and with only 9.6mm thickness. It is almost 5 – 8mm thinner than most of the battery case in the market.
What others say about it:
The Incipio Offgrid caught my eye because of how thin it is… for $45 I think its a steal… retail at $70. This case is just wonderful, battery charges my phone from 10% to about 75% which is great for only $45. It has a sleek design which i like. I bought this for my verizon iPhone 4, the edges are very close by the ringer switch but it does not interfere at all. headphone jack is recessed a lot ,but doesn’t bother me, my bose headphone fit the jack, and i bought a thin 3.5 M-M audio cable from scoshe, which does not fit btw, so i ordered an adapter. This case is great over all, definitely recommend!!
Amazon hasn’t revealed much hardware information about the new Kindle Fire. However, on Amazon’s developers site recently, some details have leaked out.
Here are some of the conclusion we got:
512MB memory, built in SD card but non removable?!
Doesn’t support Google Mobile Services (GMS)
Support multi-touch capabilities
WIFI only supports 802.11b/g, but not n
Have accelerometer and light sensor
App doesn’t able to manipulate the wallpaper and theme
OS is Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
App doesn’t have permission to use camera modules, bluetooth, mic, GPS, gyroscope or micro-SD.
The death of Steve Jobs flooded across the internet, from news sites, technology or non technology blog sites and social network. Immediately, the authorized autobiography of Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson, which soon to release in this year, has gained enormous attention.
A day right after the news, the preorder status has shot up from No. 384 to No. 1 on Amazon. Finally, they have confirmed the actual release date – 24 Oct.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
An informative article on Lifehacker highlighted a simple way to remove rust from a bicycle chain just with lime juice and a piece of steel wool. This method was discovered from a book on Japanese life hacking techniques.
This tricks actually works for all rusty metal, not limited to bicycle components only. The chemistry behind is that the citric acid from lime juice reacts with iron oxide of rust, this makes it easy to scrub off the rust later.
To point out also, after you have removed all the rust, you need to wash away all the lime juice to prevent leftover acid.
Another new technology announced was the Silk browser for Kindle Fire. It taps on Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure for preloading pages to speed up the overall browsing performance.
The actual shipping date is 15 November, but you already can preorder it today.
