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DIY Battery Reconditioner Lets You Keep Your Rechargables Longer

Battery recyclers use reconditioners to restore old rechargeable batteries once they no longer hold a charge. This DIY reconditioner can squeeze more life out of dead rechargeables and save them from the landfill.

June 10, 2011
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Ask LH: Can I Keep My Cordless Tools Charged Up All The Time?

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Dear Lifehacker, Like many other Lifehacker readers, I have the usual collection of cordless power tools that don’t get used quite as often as they should or I’d like. I’ve read that keeping the battery pack constantly charging is no good for the battery. Can you recommend a strategy for ensuring the cordless power tools have the power when you need them but maintaining the battery life? Thanks, Cordless and Powerless

May 25, 2011
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Mark Charged Batteries With Post-It Flags So You Know They’re Ready For Use

If you’re proactive and try to keep your batteries charged, you’re in good shape. However, problems arise when some are charged and ready to go and others are not. You can tell by putting it in your device, turning it on, and checking, but you can save some time by putting a “ready flag” on the battery to denote its charged and ready for use.

May 9, 2011
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Road Worrier Gets Seduced By The Magic Of SSD

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Like notebook users everywhere, I’ve been contemplating switching to a solid state drive (SSD) machine to get better performance and battery life for a while. After a week on the road with an SSD laptop, I don’t think I can put off that upgrade any longer.

May 3, 2011
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ScreenDimmer Helps You Conserve Battery Life On Your Jailbroken iDevice

ScreenDimmer is a jailbreak extension that lets you manage various brightness and backlight settings on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to help you conserve battery life. All you have to do is configure it the way you want and it’ll do its work in the background.

April 27, 2011
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How To Get Better Battery Life From Your Android Phone

If you have a modern Android phone, you know the pain of turning on your phone at 5pm only to realise it’s deep in a low-battery coma. Here are the simple manual changes, and clever automatic tweaks, that will keep your phone awake and useful for far longer.

April 21, 2011
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Replace AA Batteries With Rechargeable Mobile Phone Battery

Some gadgets still run on traditional AA batteries, and the ones that do somehow seem like relics of the past. DIYer Davetech over at Instructables shows us how to replace a AA battery compartment with one designed for a rechargeable mobile phone battery.

April 7, 2011
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Avoid Frequent Discharges To Extend Your Battery Life

People spread a lot of information about smartphone and laptop batteries these days, but we get a lot of mixed messages, some of which are just incorrect. Here’s how to take care of your battery for the best battery life possible.

March 18, 2011
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Turn Off LCD Puts Your Monitor To Sleep For Better Battery Savings

Windows: We all know your screen is one of the biggest battery drainers on a laptop, but some laptops don’t have a built-in button that puts the display to sleep. This little app will do it for you.

March 12, 2011
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Clean Your Laptop Battery For Better Battery Life And Efficiency

We’ve shared a number of ways to maximise your laptop’s battery life before, but one tip you may not know is that, like the rest of your computer, you need to keep it clean. Here’s why.

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