Jerson’s Pad

If your laptop battery doesn’t last the way it used to. There are some simple steps to do before purchasing or replacing it with a new one.

1. Check if your notebook has a BIOS battery calibration feature.

ASUS laptop has one. All you need to do is run it from BIOS and leave running it until it completes its process.

2. Adjust your display’s brightness and contrast.

One of the biggest part of a laptop computer is it’s LCD display and one of the largest parts that consumes battery charge. Try to tune it down by adjusting the brightness and contrast to minimal but comfortable settings, not to dim and not too bright.
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Are you having problems grabbing the exact color code or HEX value of a certain pixel on your desktop? For example you encountered a web page and you really like the color combination, and you want to save it’s HEX or color code value. How do you go around this without installing a new software. Well, I want to share to you a cool lightweight application to do this simple job.

Here is a simple description of the free desktop color picker tool I found on colorschemer.com.
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Floppy disk invented by IBM have now been largely superseded by flash drive these days as more PCs are removing the floppy drive support on their computer packages and now switching to a more reliable USB media devices. To mention some pros in using USB flash disk instead of the old floppy disk are:

1. Capacity – USB flash drives have larger storage (ranging from 64 MB to 256 GB or more) space than the 1.44MB FDD.
2. Speed – USB drives operates faster by reading up to 30mb per second and write about half of its reading speed.
3. Durability – USB devices are designed for multiple cycles of insertion and removal between the USB device and plug.
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Just a quick update about the latest Samsung Rogue. Another addition to my wish list. From Verizon Wireless comes with 3.1 inch AMOLED display touch screen with 480 x 800 pixels, one touch widgets, full HTML browsing and sliding QWERTY keyboard which makes Samsung Rogue good for email and messaging, social bookmarking and web browsing.

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Facebook is so popular today because of its built in applications. If you’re a Facebook user I am sure you are familiar with its addictive games, built in messaging system, photo uploading capabilities, video sharing and the list goes on. But are you aware that there are viruses lurking out there for a new victim!

We can all agree as a Facebook user that it has almost all the cool things we could possibly ask for a social website but not including viruses. Social website Viruses can compromise our privacy and sensitive information without knowing. It not just Facebook that is the target of this malicious worms or applications but other social websites as well. Koobface (Anagram for “Facebook”) worm virus which appeared in August 2008 found its way into the Facebook and began causing havoc across the network. It targets the users of the social networking websites Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Bebo, Friendster and Twitter.
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