How to Extend/Increase Laptop Battery Life - Laptop Battery Tips

How can you improve or maximize your laptop battery life? How can you prolong it's life expectancy of lifespan?

These are very common questions for laptop/notebook user. Laptop / Notebook batteries are actually categorized as "consumables". They are expected to wear out in time. So, while you can extend their life expectancy, accept the fact that your laptop battery won't last forever, no matter what even when you're not using it. So, it is not a good idea to buy an extra battery now thinking that you can store it and use it once the original battery has degraded. It's better for laptop batteries to be used, rather than sitting on a shelve. So if you use a laptop, don't plugged it in all the time. Let it drain to about 40% and then recharge.

Laptop battery lifespan or life expectancy

Laptop batteries are Lithium-Ion or Li-ion. Lithium-Ion laptop batteries are rated for a useful life of at least around 400 life cycles. A charge cycle occurs when 100% of battery capacity is used. Properly maintained laptop batteries can retain up to 80% of their original life even after 300 or more cycles.

Laptop Battery Tips

Remove the battery of your laptop/notebook if you're using an AC power for long hours. Why? The heat that your laptop produces can overexcite the chemicals in your laptop battery and therefore, shortening its overall lifespan. Avoid exposing your battery to heat whenever possible. That includes leaving it under the heat/ray of the sun. Make sure your laptop is well ventilated when in use. Fred Langa of Windows Secrets even suggested that if you store your laptop battery, put in a tight plastic bag and put it in your refrigerator at about 4-5 degrees C. Well, I think that is overkill because of the condensation that may occur especially if you are living in a tropical country like me. But the point I like you to see is the idea of how heat can be harmful to batteries.

You will also need to calibrate your laptop battery once a month. Don't worry, it's not as technical as you think. Calibrating your battery is just letting it discharged to zero every once in a while. But don't let it go deep discharge. When your laptop battery drains, windows will automatically hibernate. There's still little charge left on the battery. This reserve will hold the computer’s working memory in state for a little while. A deep discharge has occurred when even that percentage of reserve power is used up. Deep discharges will strain your batteries, so try to charge them frequently.

Solution for Utorrent Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Utorrent Error:

Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Screenshot:

Symptoms:

Downloading suddenly stops. There is a red X mark on the file that you are downloading. You see an error message that says "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

Possible solutions:

1. This error message is usually caused by indexing services of some applications/programs. Most common culprit are Google Desktop and Roxio Media. So if you are suddenly experiencing this problem, try closing Google Desktop or Roxio (whichever is present in your system). If you don't need these two programs, you can completely uninstall them.

2. Try to disable Windows caching on disk option in Utorrent. Options > Preferences > Advanced > on the right scroll down to diskio.flush_files then click False > OK

If that didn't work Select Options, Preferences then Advanced and uncheck "Disable Windows caching of disk writes".

3. If you are running Windows Vista, disable the Indexing Service of Windows Search.

4. Try moving the downloaded files to another directory.

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UFC 108 Live Stream - Rashad Evans vs Thiago Silva Video

UFC 108 Live Streaming Video - Rashad Evans vs Thiago Silva Fight Video

UFC 108: Evans vs. Silva is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on January 2, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Main Card

* Light Heavyweight bout: United States Rashad Evans vs. Brazil Thiago Silva
* Welterweight bout: United States Dustin Hazelett vs. United Kingdom Paul Daley
* Lightweight bout: United States Joe Lauzon vs. Canada Sam Stout
* Lightweight bout: United States Jim Miller vs. United States Duane Ludwig
* Heavyweight bout: Brazil Junior dos Santos vs. Netherlands Gilbert Yvel

The video is available at http://www.BestKoVideos.com

There are two options there, you can watch it via sopcast or TUV player. Justin.tv links are not available as it is not reliable.

Evans vs Silva live streaming without surveys
Rashad Evans over Thiago Silva= Rashad is my favorite fighter. I can't pick against him.

Paul Daley over Dustin Hazelett=Most of the time I will take strikers or submission specialists.

Joe Lauzon over Sam Stout= J-Lau is good. Hope the time off didn't hurt him any.

Jim Miller over Duane Ludwig= I really like Miller. He has a lot of talent.

Junior Dos Santos over Gilbert Yvel= JDS is the future champ in my eyes. Another impressive win for him.

Martin Kampmann over Jacob Volkmann= I don't really belive Volkmann should be in the UFC. He'll hang with guys, but I don't think he'll beat any of them.

Cole Miller over Dan Lauzon= I really like Miller. He has a lot of talent.

Mark Munoz over Ryan Jensen=Jensen will be cut after this loss.

Mike Pyle over Jake Ellenberger=My heart tells me Jake, but my mind tells me Mike.

John Gunderson over Rafaello Oliveira=My mind tells me Gunderson, but my heart tells me Oliveira.

Soooo who does everyone else have?

don't care about 3-4 of the fights on here.....i don't know much about alot of them such as oliviera, ellenberger, d lauzon etc. i've seen them fight but not many times against relevant competition. won't be touchin them.

For my 4 man parlay, I got:

Dos Santos over Yvel


Kampmann over Volkmann


Lauzon over Sam Stout

Jim Miller over Duane Ludwig

I'm very confident in the above fighters, and predict profits in the range of 250-300 bucks. The Miller - Ludwig odds aren't up yet so I can't see what I'll be (possibly) making. I'll be putting 350 on these fights.
The main event is a tricky one, as is the Hazelett - Daley fight.

Rashad has shown himself to be VERY inconsistent, while T. Silva was a wrecking ball before he met Lyoto Machida.

Mclovin....oops I mean Hazelett - Daley fight is another oddball. Daley is a stud as a striker, but if he gets on the ground with Dustin he's tapping in 30 seconds. But can Hazelett even get him to the ground? We all saw how easily Koshcheck beat him, left head kick style. Wouldn't touch this one with a ten foot pole. Odds aren't good enough anyhow.

The equalizer here in these fights is Rashad Evans and his ability to wrestle. Rashad can take Silva down whenever he wants and avoid the submission. I expect him to do it, but wouldn't bet a hefty chunk on him. I think he's inconsistent and not even in the top 5. I do, however, think his style beats Thiago Silva.

I got Rashad for $50 bucks and winnings of $24.

i got rashad via ko 2nd round, btw this is the first time i have ever picked rashad to win.

hazelett over semtex, maybe some close calls on the feet for a few minutes but semtex will get subbed in the first via armbar or triangle.

I have Yvel over Jds, really a coin toss for me but i think yvel will use his kicks to keep JDS at bay en route to his first decision win.

joe lauzon over sam stout via rnc in the 2nd.

i got jim miller over bang ludwig, unless ludwig can stop him in the opening seconds like he did goulet i think he is gonna be tied into a pretzel by jim miller.

kampmann as long as he doesnt get cocky on the feet.

cole miller via triangle over dan lauzon. Cole miller is looking to come back strong from his last loss to escuedero so look for him to come out with guns blazing.

only ones i care about everyone else is a coin toss to me.


Rashad, I do see winning, I think his boxing and speed mixed in with his superior wrestling will prove to be superior to Thiago's vicious muay thai. I see Rashad using great foot work and setting up peppering straights to go for the take down. There I see it playing out similar to the forrest fight, hard strikes while rashad is standing up in Thiago's guard.

But if Rashad tries to stand for a long time, I see him getting worked in the clinch and eventually getting Tko'd from way too many punches and knees.

Yvel at his best would be be a lot for JDS. I doubt we will see a prime Yvel, so I think JDS takes this one in a first round KO. I like JDS because his striking seems to flow, something you don't see a lot of in HW'S. He has good head movement and is very evasive for a fighter at his weight. Yvel of course has good Kickboxing, so it will be a stand up war untill someone gets caught.