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5 ways to maximize your battery life
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Whether it’s a laptop, iPhone, or your mom’s meatloaf, these tips will help increase the life of your batteries.
1. Dim your display – Your laptop or mobile device should come with an option to lower the brightness and dim the screen. This is an easy and effective way to dramatically increase the life of any battery.
2. Unplug – When your device is not in use, unplug it. Keeping your device plugged in for long periods of time can cause deterioration to a battery’s capacity. Prolonged deterioration will destroy your battery life in no time.
Haiti Relief Effort
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If you’re looking to help the Haitian people, we’ve created a list of incredible organizations that are directly involved with the Haiti earthquake response effort:
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P.S. Dominos new pizza is totally awesome
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Soviet-era flag@whitehouse.gov is no more
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During a time when copyrights are totally ignored and the internet runs nakedly free, we have to deal with a White House that believes they need to control what information reaches your brain. Whether from a conservative or liberal administration, Americans will never tolerate information control.
Flag@whitehouse.gov was used to hunt down ‘fishy’ or supposedly ‘mis’information about health care reform. No president in the history of the United States has asked the public to report political opponents and ‘flag’ information they deem incorrect.
We’re sorry to inform everyone that the White House is just as biased and just as motivated to use misinformation as their opponents are. Who are they to deem what is and is not correct information?
Microsoft gets Raped by a Texas Judge
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Oh the injustice! Okay, maybe it’s not that graphic. To be honest, Microsoft is probably getting what it deserves.
Toronto based, i4i, alleges Microsoft Word violates their patent (No. 5,787,449) on a method for reading XML.
On Tuesday, judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, agreed with i4i and ordered Microsoft to halt the sale of Microsoft Word products capable of .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML. The judge gave Microsoft 60 days to comply.
Open Source means everyone… unfortunately.
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As part of the President’s open source initiative, the administration’s technology team came up with a decent idea to create an online idea generation engine. In theory this would allow ordinary citizens to electronically submit ideas to the government. Unfortunately, just about anyone can access the interweb these days. What happens when ‘ordinary’ citizens submit their ideas to the government online?
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