Making You’re Laptop Battery Last Longer

I have a old laptop that truth be told can’t hold much power compared to new ones (3600mAH) so I need to get enough out of it to do my basic things so I’m going to tell you what I do for this.

1. Most important one turn the brightness to a minimal, now my Fn button doesn’t work so I have to do this a complete different way so I use PowerStrip which allows me to turn everything down and it saves a lot of power.

2. Use very little programs, if I’m on the battery i try to use just one program at a time for example I have a seperate install of firefox which has no addons or anything like this, means it uses much less resources saving my laptop power.

3. Do not use the CD/DVD drive, these consume a lot of power to avoid these you can use virtual drives such as deamon tools this will allow you to run a image file for your virtual drive. If you have a newer laptop as well you might find a button to disable the drive so using it will also help.

Website Adverts good or bad?

If you know me you will know I’ve tried out several methods of advertising on my sites, for example Google adsence, affiliate future, amazons affiliate, adbrite, 1and1 referral and now trying to sell advertising space.

But what has made me any money 1 has made me $2 and that was 1and1’s referral advertising but this was on one of my less busy websites, yet the popular sites haven’t pulled in ANYTHING this was a big problem when using advertising which you cannot get any money out untill you earn $100.

So my new adventure is selling my own personal advertising space, as you might have noticed I actually have some new adverts around the page for sale their cheap as you can find out on the advertising space page it is currently run using openads so if someone wants a advert on this site they can pay me say a months cost once I see the money (in paypal) I will put the advert up.

Unfortunately it isn’t all automated i need to set up the adverts myself which personally I dislike as it doesn’t insure absote accuracy on the ads compared to the client putting it in.

BitLet - A bittorrent applet

The other day I came across BitLet, now I’m a big fan of bittorrent I believe it is one of the best ways to share your podcasts as once you’ve downloaded it you can then share it to the other people downloading it.

A lot of people think that P2P is a bad thing because it allows you to download music or movies but it really isn’t its a lot more something like Utorrent is a amazing client it has all these tools on it such as the encryption some ISP’s do not like clients like utorrent so it includes encryption so that the ISP’s don’t slow your downloads down.

But now if your at work or school and they don’t have a BitTorrent client visit BitLet and start the Java Applet and your ready to download.