Fix iPhone Battery Drain

Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:23 am

If you recently upgraded your iPhone to iOS 5, you may have noticed a significant decrease in your phone’s battery life. Many users are reporting that their phones only have half the battery capacity that they did before the upgrade. Many iPhone 4s users have also complained on the Apple message boards about the phone’s short battery life.

While Apple has not released an official fix yet, one way to gain extra battery life in iOS 5 is to turn of location-based time zone setting. Here is how to do it:

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Best Sites to Download Free Audiobooks

Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:24 am

Even if you don’t have time to read, you can still take in plenty of literature by listening to audiobooks. Fortunately, there are thousands of audiobooks available for free online. You can listen to them on your computer, MP3 player, iPod or iPhone or other listening device. Most of the free audiobooks on the Internet are classic books in the public domain, but there are some newer free audiobooks as well.

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Add Apps and Links to YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook Videos

Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:54 am

Videos provide a great visual tool for teaching a skill or promoting a service. However, videos are largely a one-way communication, lacking the interactivity needed to keep an audience’s attention in the age of social media.

Viewbix can add needed interactivity to YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook videos by allowing you to add apps and links in a colorful video wrapper.

Click Get Started to add apps to your video.

Next, click the icon for the service where your video is located, then paste the URL for your video.

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Top Plugins for Windows Media Center

Posted on October 31, 2011 at 6:30 am

There are many free plugins that give extra features to Windows Media Center. Using these plugins, you can watch videos, listen to music and view other media that isn’t typically available in Windows Media Center. There are also plugins that help you to organize your media library in Windows Media Center. These are some of the best plugins that work in Media Center in Windows XP, Vista and 7.

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How to Use Filters in Yahoo Mail

Posted on October 31, 2011 at 5:32 am

Most people think of filters in email programs as ways to curb spam, but filters can also be used to help you manage other kinds of email messages as well; for example, say you get a lot of messages from your brother. You could set up a filter to automatically put all messages from him in a folder just for him.

To see how to create and use filters in Yahoo mail, bring up the Yahoo application, and then click where it says options.

Then choose More options:

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Turn Big Images into JavaScript-Enabled iFrames

Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:01 am

Modern digital cameras take very big pictures. Sure, these pictures are alive with detail and striking colors, but they must be resized for Web use. Unfortunately, resizing often results in lost picture quality.

BigImg.it allows photo lovers to keep their big-photo’s quality, even when the photo is displayed in appropriate Web dimensions. The service creates an iFrame that provides JavaScript-based panning and zooming tools, so the true brilliance of the photograph is retained.