Carat is a research project that aims to detect energy bugs—app behavior that is consuming energy unnecessarily—using data collected from a community of mobile devices. After running Carat for about a week, you will start to receive personalized recommendations for improving your battery life. We are based out of the AMP Lab in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, collaborating with the University of Helsinki
If you are running Carat or decide to install it leave a comment with your device, OS and J-score I am interested to see how different devices stack up.
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) begins tomorrow evening at sundown. One of the most common customs on Rosh Hashanah is to eat Apples dipped in Honey, as a symbol for a sweet new year. Here is a new twist on an old custom.
I have always been an optimistic person, my favorite ice cream is Mint Chocolate Chip, I don’t think I am an introvert, I have visited more than five countries, I refuse to use Yahoo Mail (but that is a whole different story). I just happen to prefer my Android phone over an iPhone.
10 Hours sounds good, but Apple does seem to have a way of overstating these things Image from Mashable I have an iPhone 3G according to Apples device specifications this is the battery life I should get, I find these numbers to way overstated from reality. So I find the 10 hour number hard to believe.
The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone’s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text messaging and voicemail.
Today Vonage announced the availability of Apps for their service for Blackberry, iPhone and iTouch devices.
The iPhone and iPod touch downloads will allow users to make unlimited Vonage Mobile calls in the U.S. over Wi-Fi without using up cell phone minutes. The BlackBerry and iPhone app also run on your existing cellular network, which will eat up minutes.
Yesterday the Tweetdeck 1.1.1 iPhone update appeared in the App Store loaded with new features including -Support for Facebook -Full Landscape mode support -Video uploads (for iPhone 3Gs) -Bit.ly Integration -Ability to save a draft of a Tweet -Add Location to Tweets and more But here is my favorite when you send a Tweet you have the option to send it in the background don’t get too excited you still need to leave TweetDeck open to allow the send to complete but if you reply to a Tweet you can go back and read more Tweets while it is sending. TweetDeck video of New Features
So it is no secret by now that the Beta release of Traveler in 8.5.1 supports the iPhone. Currently it has only been released to the Design Partner program and is under NDA but I can tell you after setting it up today I now have my mail, calendar and contacts on the iPhone and love it. The only problem I see so far is one that IBM can’t solve for me. The iPhone has never had great battery life (and having previously discussed my paranoia with battery life, and the ways that I combat it I I assure you that the iPhone battery life is just bad it’s not me). Today after enabling push mail via Traveler the battery really wore down quickly, no way I would make it through a full day with a few phone calls thrown in. For a while now I have been using both the iPhone and the Blackberry Storm, with Traveler support I could easily see myself using just the iPhone, except for the battery life issue. Nice job on the Traveler support by IBM, now maybe Apple can do something about the battery life in the iPhone.
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don’t get too excited you still need to leave TweetDeck open to allow the send to complete but if you reply to a Tweet you can go back and read more Tweets while it is sending. TweetDeck video of New Features