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Mac 101: Keep your battery happy and healthy

by Dave Caolo (Oct 20th, 2008)

There's a good tip at CreativeBits today on prolonging your battery's life. Specifically, it's about letting it run through "cycles." When your battery is fully charged, be it in your laptop, iPhone or iPod, and you let it run until the device dies, you've used up one cycle. Over time, it will lose ...

Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk time, new glass display

by David Chartier (Jun 18th, 2007)

Talk about last minute upgrades: In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen. Instead of what I believe was around 5 hours of video/talk and 16 hours of audio playback, Apple has updated the iPhone's battery life ...

NPR interviews Steve Wozniak

by David Chartier (Oct 3rd, 2006)

Can this guy get around, or what? The Woz has been everywhere lately, from the Colbert Report to the It's Showtime event on a Segway, and he's on his way to the South Pole in a hydrogen Hummer. Now even NPR got their hands on the big W for an interview, waxing ecstatic about his life after Apple, ...

Get your run on - Apple taking preorders for the Nike+iPod Sport Kit

by David Chartier (Jun 14th, 2006)

It looks as though Apple is officially taking pre-orders for the $30 Nike+iPod Sport Kit, a customized wireless transmitter and receiver set that helps you track your run by integrating with Apple's iPod nano. The tips started pouring in, and sure enough, it's up in the store in all its ...

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