Mac users looking to get some insight into their battery power outside of the typical X% charge left should take a look at the freeware utility coconutBattery. coconutBattery isn’t just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your battery – it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your...

For those of us who use a laptop, there is no doubt that one of the most important components is the battery. If the battery completely dies you can always plug the system into the wall to use it, but that defeats the purpose of a laptop. Therefore, it is essential to take good care of your battery and a program which can help is the appropriately named utility:...

You may have heard that Apple’s iPad battery replacement policy is actually a unit replacement. Being that the iPad has a sealed battery you cannot replace yourself, what this means is that if you buy an iPad and the battery no longer holds a charge within the warranty period, you bring the unit to an Apple store, they transfer all your data/apps/etc. from...

If you use a laptop as your primary computer and find that for the most part you leave it plugged in on your desk, you need to take battery care into consideration. In a situation like this, you do not want to constantly be charging your battery. This article explains it well. To summarize, having your battery in a ‘constant’ charge state will reduce...

I don’t know how this one slipped by me, so apologies that I’m late to the party on reporting this one, but better late than never. The Xcore86 is an amazing little board because the entire computer is embedded within it. And one of the best features it’s that since it only uses 1.2 watts, it can run without fans. Even better is that a netbook...

It’s an ever-increasing mobile world, and with it comes all the tech stuff we need to get things done. Being mobile means your tech will run off a battery or two. However there are certain items when you should care and other times when you don’t have to. Point-And-Shoot Digital Cameras Should you care? Yes. I won’t buy a point-and-shoot...

Yesterday evening I picked up an item arrived via an internet order, that being a very plain battery-powered digitally-tuned AM/FM radio with built-in speaker. The one pictured in this article is the one I purchased (listed here if you want to buy one yourself). The cost is under 10 bucks. This is a very small radio and is only slightly larger than the size of...

Throughout the history of laptops, one thing that basically hasn’t changed all that much is the battery. It is the power source that makes your portable computer portable. The vast majority of laptops use Lithium Ion (abbreviated Li-ion) batteries. Before that was nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and before that Nickel Cadmium (NiCd or NiCad). For those...

The Iphone is the cool gadget of the times. And proof of that is that when I wanted to go look at (buy ) one recently I found that both Tampa Apple stores and all local AT&T stores were out of the Iphone 3G. Damn. But, the device is not without issues and one of those issues is battery life.The new Iphone 3G is said to be worse than the original when it...