Saturday, January 30, 2010

Maximaze The Battery Life Of Your BlackBerry

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Have you read about Laptop Battery Maintenance or ATM Security..? It's time to talk about Blackberry.

If you are a new BlackBerry owner, or an old owner experiencing low battery issues, read through these tips:

Overview :
Li-Ion battery are best kept topped up regularly. A battery that has been left flat for a long time will benefit from being fully-charged and then fully discharged a couple of times, but there is no advantage to doing this to batteries in regular use.
  1. You need to break in the BlackBerry battery. Charge-discharge it fully about 3 times. This will max the battery life of a fresh, new Lithium ion.
    Note: once you do that, don't get in the habit of fully discharging the battery everytime -- to prevent wearing it out -- lithium batteries can be damaged ith excessive deep discharges like a car battery can be.... When breaking in the battery, make sure you keep it plugged in long after the battery says it is fully charged (i.e. overnight), you really want to trickle-charge your BlackBerry to top-off your battery.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

ATM Security

Media have reported that card skimming at ATM machines has become increasingly across Indonesia. Please read here. The scams emerged after bank customers in Bali reported money missing from their accounts, with similar cases turning up in Jakarta and East Kalimantan The police now have 13 suspects in custody for various ATM-related crimes in different parts of the country. Several bank officials came forward over the weekend to reassure customers their accounts were safe and any missing money would be promptly refunded. At this point panic is unwarranted and rumors and text messages saying major banks will blockade ATM services appear untrue.

ATM Skimming and Pin Capturing

ATM skimming is a world-wide problem. Card skimming is the illegal copying of information from the magnetic strip of a credit or debit card. Criminals try to steal your details so they can access your account either locally or overseas. Successful skimming requires both a card skimmer (card reader) and camera (PIN capturing device) to be fitted to the ATM in order to steel card data.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Laptop Battery Maintenance

Battery is significant component of laptop to fulfill its function as mobile computer. Although there is adaptor as complementary of battery, it’s not deniable that for place
is far from electrical source will required battery.

To keep battery performance remain good, below are few tips we can do :
  1. Adjust battery power.
    Windows has a feature name Power Options. Through this feature you are able to adjust laptop power consumption. How : click Start > Control Panel > Power Options > Power Schemes button. On Power schemes field there are several options (picture 1). Saving battery power will be maximal by selecting Power schemes “Max Battery”. As consequences, laptop speed will decrease. Each options will determine setting Turn off monitor, Turn off hard disks, System standby and System hibernates in differential time (picture 2)

Monday, January 11, 2010

Easy Duplicate Finder

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Easy Duplicat Finder is a small tool that can be used to find out some duplicated files inside your storage drive, that is Harddisk, USB drive or Portable harddisk. It's important to remove the duplicated files because it's not needed, is it? One file is enaugh, so why should we have two or more of the same files? Beside that, duplicated files only fullfilled your storage drive, especially if your storage drive has a small capacity. Much space can be saved by erasing duplicated files and use it for other data or files.

But, managing and maintaining your storage drive is important too. For example, harddisk, need to be defragmented too, to rearrange files inside the drive, to keep it's working well. You can read here about how to do harddisk defragmentation.

Now we get back to the Easy Duplicat Finder. It's really easy to use. Even you can install it to your USB flash drive. Firts of all, you have to download the software here, or for portable type here . Then install it to your caomputer or USB flash drive, and run it.