Frank Carver's Punch Barrel » battery http://blog.punchbarrel.com Frank Carver's musings about software and life Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:43:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Calibrating a MacBook or MacBook Pro battery http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/05/02/mac-os-x-105-help-calibrating-a-macbook-or-macbook-pro-battery/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/05/02/mac-os-x-105-help-calibrating-a-macbook-or-macbook-pro-battery/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 10:12:00 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=21 I’m not a mac user (although some people seem to think I suffer from mac-envy), but the following seems an interesting and potentially-useful tip for managing notebook battery life anyway.

Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Calibrating a MacBook or MacBook Pro battery

]]> http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/05/02/mac-os-x-105-help-calibrating-a-macbook-or-macbook-pro-battery/feed/ 0 The ‘greener’ options in portable music and video players http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/04/30/the-greener-options-in-portable-music-and-video-players/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/04/30/the-greener-options-in-portable-music-and-video-players/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:27:48 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=6 I’m sure that anyone who has travelled, particularly anyone who is unsure of power availability and who has to carry their own luggage, has been through the process of fretting about which power cords, adapters, rechargers and batteries to bundle along with today’s collection of electronic gadgets. So how about an MP3 player which runs and recharges without access to an electric socket? Best of all, one which is able to recharge other stuff too!

The ‘greener’ options in portable music and video players

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