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RSSHow To Fix battery issues after upgrading to iOS 5.1.1
May 23
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battery, ios, iphone
Five Tips To Conserve Your Smartphone’s Battery Power
Nov 4
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battery, power, smartphone
Smartphones are great pieces of technology, but with so much whizzing and banging going on they often barely last the day. You could just use it less, or turn off all of its features, but surely there are better ways of improving battery performance?
To an extent, this is indeed true – there are a variety of ways in which you can improve battery performance, and the best of these won’t change how you use your smartphone. Read on to discover five ways you can improve your phone’s battery life!
Sending links from Twitter to Google Reader made easy
Apr 9
How-To Guides 13 Comments
bookmarking, bookmarks, google, links, reader, RSS, Twitter
Unite Twitter & Google Reader with a click of the star
The Problem
For writers, most links come from either Google Reader or Twitter these days. In the case of Google Reader, one can easily save things for later by adding a star. However, saving links from your Twitter timeline requires some sort of bookmarking system (e.g. Delicious, Instapaper or Packrati.us). This gives the writer two sets of links to keep up with, wouldn’t it be better if everything were in one place?
Privacy tips for Google Buzz
Feb 15
How-To Guides 2 Comments
buzz, e-mail, email, filtering, gmail, google, privacy, socialnetworking, Twitter
Google Buzz
Google Buzz was released last week, and a positive spin on it would be that it could succeed where FriendFeed didn’t quite succeed, because of Google’s ready-made user base. A negative spin would be - we don’t need this. Certainly, I personally think that it’s naive to try replacing Twitter at this point. Twitter is not perfect, but we’re stuck with it, and there’s a great ecosystem of web services built up around it.
Sure, Google Buzz can take posts from Twitter and therefore work along side it, just like Facebook can. Although, Google Buzz is just going to be another place for replication of links. E.g. my blog posts updates to Twitter, and my Buzz account takes updates from both – I can see that it wouldn’t take many more steps to create a painful recursion here. To be fair, this is what the mute button is for, but why should we have to start playing whack-a-mole with all this? Duplication is also going to happen for committed Google users, who are likely to see the same updates appearing in their Google Reader as they are on their Buzz feed; unless they’re very strict about who they follow. Which reminds me, I had better unfollow most of those people Google automatically made me follow on day one …
In the interests of fairness, I should report that Google have responded, saying that they have replaced auto-follow with auto-suggestions. They’ll also make it easier to hide who you’re following, and to opt-out of Buzz completely; all via your GMail settings. At the time the writing though, none of these options were available in my GMail settings. Fortunately, there are other ways to get to these options, so here’s a round up of blog posts showing you how to protect yourself with Google Buzz.
Tip of the Week – December 18th 2009
Dec 18
How-To Guides No Comments
flickr, geotag, google, maps, photos, search
Earth Album
If you are a regular Flickr user, you’ll know you can Geo-Tag
your photos. A site called Earth Album makes finding photos by location so much easier by mashing up Flickr’s location data with Google Maps. Simply search for a location, drag and zoom with your cursor, then click on any point in the map to see a selection of photos taken on or near that point!
