Tips to extend your Laptop battery’s life

I’ve been using my Acer laptop for almost a year now but still dint know many things which I am not supposed to do when my laptop is in battery mode. Today I came to know few stuff and I am sure it will be useful for a lot of you who are still a Trainee in using Laptops

DOs and Donts while using laptops in battery mode

• Avoid running CD/DVDs
• Avoid using Pen drives (this consumes more battery power)
• Avoid scanning your laptops (Anti-virus)
• Avoid playing 3D Games/ watching movies
• Avoid multi tasking (MS Excel, Word consumes less battery power)
• Always use your laptops in a cool place. 

Better leave it plugged in whenever possible.

Following these, will increase the life of your laptop’s battery.

Calc5:Slick Ajax Calculator

Calc5 is an Online graphic calculator which lets you perform advanced
calculations and plot 2D and 3D graphs.Just enter the expression in the text field and press OK(or Ctrl+Enter).Variables can also be used.
(for example)a=5;b=1(x-y)^a;.
Any number of expressions can be used separated by semicolon.The functions supported by this calculator are

• sin
• cos
• asin
• acos
• tan
• atan
• sqrt
• log
• diff

It is also possible to manage graph smoothness by changing the number of points where function calculated.You can use graph and graph3D function for graphing.
graph(function [, x1=x1, x2=x2, , y1=y1, y2=y2]);
graph3d(function [, x1=x1, x2=x2, , y1=y1, y2=y2], z1=z1, z2=z2]);
Here is one example.

The 2D graphs are very cool–smooth lines which lets you pan and zoom with the mouse.The site automatically saves your previous calculations (via cookies), which is handy, but there’s no built-in permalink system for sending calculations or graphs to your  friends and colleagues.(Calc5 is still in Beta).
The built-in samples will help you a lot.You can also add this gadget to your site.No need to create any account.Just fix the width,height and color of your calculator,you will get a code.Copy and paste it in your site.

Snipshot:Edit Photos Online

Wanna edit photos without downloading any photo editor????You have Snipshot-100% browser based photo editor with no plug-ins required.

Snipshot lets you to edit any photos online.It allows you to crop,resize,enhance,rotate the image.You can also adjust the contrast,brightness,saturation and sharpness of the image.You can upload any image from your system or import any image from any website and edit it.Later the image can be saved in different file formats like GIF,JPG,PNG,TIF or PDF to your system or to your Flickr account or Webshots.Undo and Redo are also allowed.Free API is available which lets you to use Snipshot for your website.

As usual, my favorite AJAX plays the main role

Toshiba to recall Sony laptop batteries

Toshiba is recalling 340,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp.I have already posted about this issue.

The latest battery problem causes the laptops to sometimes run out of power but no injuries or other accidents have been reported, Toshiba Corp. spokesman Keisuke Omori said. She declined to provide the number of reported problems.

The defect is not directly related to the problem behind last month’s recall of Sony batteries by Dell Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., which cited concerns that the batteries could overheat and catch fire.

Dell asked customers to return 4.1 million faulty laptop batteries, while Apple recalled 1.8 million batteries worldwide.

Read more about this>>

GoStats.com

GoStats provides live web-site usage tracking/reporting & web hit counters.GoStats allows you to track your hits easily providing a great hit counter service. Your website stats will be collected with the hit counter and then processed into an easy to read report detailing the traffic.The GoStats free hit counter is a very powerful method of determining how many people visit your site.It is very easy to add it to your website.Just follow the steps.

• First create an account in GoStats.com
• It will ask for your website URL and other details.
• Just fill it up and click “submit” button.
• It will show us a code.
• copy the code in the design part(For eg:HTML part) of your website.This is the code.

<><script type=”text/javascript”><!–//–><![CDATA[//><!-- var go_aid=2723; var go_cid=3; var go_iid=7; var go_z=''; var go_serv='c4.gostats.com'; var go_cw=88; var go_ch=100; var go_js="1.0"; var go_r=Math.random()+"&a="+go_aid+"&t="+go_cid+"&i="+ go_iid+"&r="+ escape(document.referrer)+"&p="+escape(window.location.href); document.cookie="gostats=1; path=/"; go_r+="&c="+(document.cookie?"y":"n"); //--><!]]></script> <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript1.1″><!–//–><![CDATA[//><!-- go_js="1.1"; go_r+="&j="+(navigator.javaEnabled()?"y":"n"); //--><!]]></script> <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript1.2″><!–//–><![CDATA[//><!-- go_js="1.2"; go_r+="&w="+screen.width+"&h="+screen.height+"&d="+ (((navigator.appName.substring(0,3)=="Mic"))?screen.colorDepth:screen.pixelDepth); //--><!]]></script> <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript1.3″><!–//–><![CDATA[//><!-- go_js="1.3"; //--><!]]></script> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://c4.gostats.com/js/count4.js?id=2723″></script> <noscript><div><a href=”http://c4.gostats.com/click.xml?2723″ target=”_top”><img src=”http://c4.gostats.com/bin/count?a=2723&t=3&i=7&z=” style=”border-width:0px;width:88px;height:100px” alt=”GoStats web counter” width=”88″ height=”100″ /></a><br /> <a style=”font-size: 9px” href=”http://gostats.com” title=”GoStats web counter”>GoStats web counter</a></div></noscript>

Thatsall.You can now see a Webcounter in your website.

Just have a look at this site Blooming Webs

You can see the web counter in the left side of the page.Soon i will try it in wordpress also.