Posts Tagged ‘power’
Does Deflation Threat Call for New Strategy?
Stewart: Power brokers are changing their allocations. Should you? Read the rest of this entry »
Laptop or Desktop: Which Would You Find It Harder Surviving Without?
The title of a recent Mac Night Owl column by Gene Steinberg grabbed me as a question that might have been more relevant 10 years ago. “Can You Survive Without a Desktop Mac?” Gene queries rhetorically. From my perspective, and I think that of many others these days, the operative would more aptly be, “can you survive without a laptop Mac?” After all, the New York Times first reported that laptop sales exceeded desktops in May 2003, Apple notebook sales surpassed its desktops sold in July 2005, have done so consistently since April 2006, and now represent roughly three-quarters of Mac systems sold, although from time to time desktops gain back some ground, such as with the hot-selling new iMacs. Read the rest of this entry »
Complete Guide to Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Mac
Computers get dirty, especially their human interface surfaces — keyboards and pointing devices. Read the rest of this entry »
Predicting 2010: Mac Lineup
January 2010 will mark the four-year anniversary of Apple’s first Intel-based Mac, the MacBook Pro. With Snow Leopard officially dropping support for PowerPC Macs and the next version of iLife and iWork likely to do the same, a perfect storm is brewing where Apple can begin to really push OS X to maximize the potential of the Intel hardware it supports. 2010 looks to be a big year in terms of hardware updates from Apple; here’s our roundup of predictions on what’s to come. Read the rest of this entry »
Improve Life of Laptop Battery with BatteryCare
BatteryCare is a software to know about modern laptop’s battery,It monitors the battery’s discharge cycles and helps increasing it’s autonomy and improving its lifetime.It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops, that don’t support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage. The advanced algorithm of BatteryCare accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed.When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.BatteryCare shows all the detailed information about the battery, such as wear level, capacities, consumption, manufacturer, etc.In battery mode, the notification icon shows the remaining time and percentage of battery Read the rest of this entry »