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How To Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life?

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your laptop battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so.

1. Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work – less demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.

2. Dim your screen – Most laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.

3. Cut down on programs running in the background. Itunes, Desktop Search, etc. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life. Shut down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.

4. Cut down external devices – USB devices (including your mouse) & WiFi drain down your laptop battery. Remove or shut them down when not in use. It goes without saying that charging other devices (like your iPod) with your laptop when on battery is a surefire way of quickly wiping out the charge on your laptop battery.

5. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory. Virtual memory results in hard drive use, and is much less power efficient. Note that adding more RAM will consume more energy, so this is most applicable if you do need to run memory intensive programs which actually require heavy usage of virtual memory.

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How do I Set up a USB 802.11b/g adaptor on Mac OSX?

I recently purchased a cantenna with a built in wifi adaptor to use on my macbook. I got the cantenna to work by installing the software and i can actually see it working but i need help in how to receive the wifi it is picking up. How would i set it up in network under system preferences? Thanks
thanks for the advice in disconnecting the airport, it helped a bit. but when i have the adaptor connected and it shows it receiving signal, i try to load a page and it stays blank with the loading progress stuck. any other suggestions?

Ah! cantenna with a second wifi connection on your mac! Cool!

Go to network sys prefs, choose network port configuration, make sure it's enabled... (and the built-in is not).

then you use it as you used the built-in!

UPDATE:
you have to choose the wifi router that you are connecting to! I'm sure it's out there... but you have to choose it and enter the wep/wpa keys!

I use a widget to scan the neighborhood for wifi signals and conflicting networks!

http://www.spintriplet.com/atc/

Apple runs out of launch day iPads
Apple on Saturday quietly revealed through the Apple Store that it has run out of launch day iPads. New online pre-orders for all Wi-Fi iPads now won't ship until April 12th, or more than a week after the initial deliveries arrive. The delay comes two weeks after pre-orders began and an estimated 240,000 iPads were purchased sight unseen....

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