Posted 07 October 2007 by
N. A. Hilal
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I found great article by Cisco Cheng at pcmag.com that tell about LED-Backlit screen. As described by him, on the market there are two technology behind the laptop screen: CCFL backlighting and the new LED backlighting. As LEDs have a larger color gomut and has a higher degree of details in dark areas, make the image on the screen look sharper. The other advantage of employing LEDs technology include capability to reduce motion artifacts during video and movie playback so it consumes less power which enhance the battery life.
There are various laptops on the market that adopts LED-backlit for its screens include Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (LED), Dell XPS M1330, Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N, Fujitsu Lifebook Q2010, Fujitsu Lifebook P7230, and Asus U1F.
Via pcmag | Buy Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N (LED …
Hohoho, great idea always coming from bright brain and sometime coming from poor conditions. Now the idea “how to make cheap laptop desk” is coming from IKEA hacker. IKEA itself known as low-cost home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture. The imaginative guy successfully convert $20 IKEA product, Benjamin Stool (originally designed for extra seat), become a beauty laptop desk.
The result is really cool and even look like a professional laptop desk. An extra tool needed to finish this simple and easy job, a $6 coping saw. But actually the idea is limitless, you can explore based on your imaginations and budget.
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Do you got nothing to do this summer holiday? it could be a nice idea to polish your laptop to have classic look or even look like an old typewriter. If you see this work will make you happy at home, then what are you waiting for? the prototype shown above was handcrafted by Marry Robinette employing special material from schtickers.com.
Looking the picture, it seem that Mrs. Marry has successfully achieved her mission. As she mentioned on her blog, she wanted to modify her laptop to have some of the stylings of a portable typewariter, great jobs Mrs! If you want to duplicate her art work, you can follow the step by step instruction here.
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Hacking laptop battery is just another fun way to replace your broken battery as well as save an extra money for your weekend, but doing the right thing for longer battery life is a different thing. Today i found a good article how to make your laptop battery has extra life, it just 10 simple thing to do by yourself, no professional technician need, just follow the instructions. An overview of the steps provide below:
- Use Windows power options properly
- Don’t leave stuff plugged in
- Charge, discharge, the charge
- Reduce your laptop’s brightness
- Use blank screen savers
- Cut the screen furniture
- Turn WiFi off
- Buy more memory
- Defrag the hard disk
- Check the battery light
There is no clarification about the percentaga of the extra life they achive, but for detail instructions, you should visit the …
Are you always plug your laptop into AC power at all times? if you did it probably your laptop at risks, your laptop possibly will died shortly when use the battery sometime far away from AC power. the problem isn’t overcharging, but this is happen because some rechargeable batteries need to run down and then be recharged to avoid what is called the memory affect.
According to Bill Husted, a good folk from palmbeachpost, it is smart to use the battery and then let it run down at least once a month. this is especially important if your battery other than the lithium ion type, but if your laptop using lithium ion batteries, you are free of this problem but you should use the battery sometime to make sure it will work when you need it.