Goodbye, Disposable Battery

This has been coming for a while now, but: the disposable battery is on its death bed thanks to the heavy use of non-user-serviceable, cheap, rechargeable, and durable batteries in modern devices. But is this necessarily a good thing? Let’s analyze this.
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Tags: batteries, dying, electricity, emergency, racket
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Saving Key Devices From Surges

Due to a change in the type of power plug that ships with smaller devices (i.e. the “magic little boxes” that us integrators install for clients) in the past several years, said devices and power supplies are more apt to be wiped out by lightning and power spikes than older supplies in exchange for a lower manufacturing cost. However, with a simple change in how you merely plug it in, you can alleviate this key disadvantage AND lower your electricity bill in one fell swoop.
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Tags: electricity, Greening, power strips, saving money, tips, transformer
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How to Cut Electricity Costs (Without Spending Money)

Appalled by your electricity bill or just want to cut costs where you can in this horrendous economy? Well here are some energy management tips you can employ that cost little to nothing to implement, but save you loads on your electricity usage (which you can verify using our TED Energy Management products).

Most of these rules I myself use, and my power bill is $50.

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Tags: cutting cost, electricity, energy use, Greening, power strips, Safety, saving money, smart home, tips
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Hacking 101: What Exactly Does My iPhone Transmit?

So you have an iPhone/iPod/iPad, and you use it quite a bit. Every wonder just what data is sent to and from the device to remote servers over the Internet? Or are you worried after the whole Apple tracking scandal or the recent news that fraudulent malware apps are becoming increasingly discovered in the Android and Blackberry app stores?

I’ll show you exactly how you can view what data of yours is sent/received, with the technique here applicable to any other wireless mobile device – not just iPhones.
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Tags: 1984, Android, Big Brother, Blackberry, cool, data, ethernet, hacking, hub, iPad, iPhone, mobile, privacy, wireless
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What The iPad is Missing

iPad

Ever since the iPad initially came out (and before it did, but that’s something I can’t discuss here), people have been in love with it – well, almost everyone.

From my little corner in the tech scene, I’ve been scoffing at it and its missing features for the longest time. And my criticism is not unfounded, as my credentials in the industry will show. My name is Anthony Cargile, I hate the iPad, and here is why.

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Tags: Apple, crap, features, future, iPad, missing
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The Future of the Processor

A modern processor chip package

Undoubtedly, you yourself have seen the rapid evolution of the processor (or microprocessor, if you’ve been in “the loop” for long enough). It’s fairly common knowledge that processors have gone from large, room-sized spaghetti messes of wiring spanning several human-sized circuit board to exponentially faster, multicored, nanoscopic masterpieces. But, where do they go from here?

This article, for clarity to seasoned readers, focuses generally to Intel architecture (x86/x86-64/IA-32/AMD64) processors used in generally all current PC and Mac computers, excluding certain ARM-based netbooks and Apple iDevices.

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