battery life

A new phone

February 4, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

After a few years with a straightforward Nokia 1661 and a PAYG Blackberry 8520, I decided to go and upgrade from the former to an HTC Wildfire S. So far, the new phone has been good to me with only [...]

A little more freedom

December 10, 2011 2 Responses Shortlink

A few weeks ago, I decided to address the fact that my Toshiba laptop have next to useless battery life. The arrival of an issue of PC Pro that included a review of lower cost laptops was another spur and [...]

Battery life

October 2, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

In recent times, I have lugged my Toshiba Equium with me while working away from home; I needed a full screen laptop of my own for attending to various things after work hours so it needs to come with me. [...]

A useful little device

October 1, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

Last weekend, I ran into quite a lot of bother with my wired broadband service. Eventually, after a few phone calls to my provider, it was traced to my local telephone exchange and took another few days before it finally [...]

Extending ASUS Eee PC Battery Life Without Changing From Ubuntu 11.04

May 25, 2011 4 Responses Shortlink

It might just be my experience of the things but I do tend to take claims about laptop or netbook battery life with a pinch of salt. After all, I have a Toshiba laptop that only lasts an hour or [...]

A new laptop

January 7, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

Having had it on my wish list for a view years, I finally succumbed to temptation and purchased a laptop in the PC World sale, a Toshiba Equium A200-1VO in fact. I reserved it on the web and popped into [...]