Maximize your Laptop Battery’s Life with BatteryCare

There are times when our laptop batteries seem to last for hours…and other times they seem to discharge in mere minutes.
The built-in battery manager in Windows can be rather deceptive in its reports of how much time is left before the battery dies. Even more, changing the power settings in windows can take several minutes better spent watching a DVD or surfing the Web.
Monitoring and maximizing your laptop battery’s life becomes much easier with a free program called BatteryCare. The program sits in your system tray like the Windows battery monitor, but gives much more information when your mouse hovers over it.
It tells your battery’s percentage charged, the temperature of your CPU and hard drive, and your current power setting.
If you click the icon in the System Tray, you are shown a selection menu to change your power settings. This means you can change to your Power Saver setting with just one click.
Right-clicking the BatteryCare icon in the System Tray brings up another menu that allows you to change your power plan, adjust settings, donate to the publisher or show the program’s main information screen. Click Show at the top of the menu to see more information about your battery than you have likely ever seen.
The first screen that appear is basic information, further describing your battery’s current health. This is where you can find out how much battery life you have before finding a place to plug in.
Click Detailed Information towards the top right of the window to bring up a menu with information about your battery’s designed capacity, current capacity and wear level. This can help you predict if it is time to buy a new battery.
Clicking the Settings link at the top right of this window brings up configuration options for getting the most of BatteryCare and your battery.
Most of the general settings are self explanatory, like starting the program when Windows starts, but there are added settings to disable the Aero theme in Vista (it worked in Windows 7 too) and to pause services. This can extend your battery life at least a few extra minutes.
BatteryCare is superior to the built-in Windows battery monitoring functions. It gives more information about the battery and over time, its statistical calculations about discharge cycles and how much time you have left on the current battery charge improve. If you use your laptop’s battery on a daily basis, this program is worth the download.
http://batterycare.net/en/index.html

TV Chrome Lets You Watch Television While Surfing The Net

If you’re the multitasking type, an avid TV watcher, and a Google Chrome user, you can combine all of those passions into one single browser window. A Google Chrome add-on named TV Chrome makes all of this possible.
Slow day at the office? Google Chrome’s TV Chrome add-on may be just what you were looking for. With TV Chrome, you can watch television inside of a Google Chrome window. Not only that, but the channel selection is decent, and there are channels from several different countries as well.
Simply navigate to your company’s website in a new tab. Boss approaching your desk with an angry look on his face? Simply click out of the Chrome TV tab, and you are back to the company homepage. Here’s how you use the Google Chrome TV plugin.
Open up the Google Chrome web browser and head on over to this page. Although it’s labeled as a Firefox plugin, it will work for Google Chrome as well. Download the Windows Media Firefox Plugin and install it onto your PC. Just like any other program, you will need to click Agree and OK to some licenses, and the wizard will install the program.
After the program gets done installing, close your Google Chrome web browser and reopen. Jump to this page and click the Install button to add the Chrome TV add-on to your browser.
Upon install, you should now have a new TV box in the upper right hand corner of the screen; more specifically, directly to the left of the Control the Current Page button.
Click the TV Chrome icon to get a list of available channels. You will notice that all of the channels are organized by country or by category.
Simply navigate to a channel that you would like to watch and select it. From there, Chrome will open up the Windows Media Player extension, and load the channel. That’s all there is to it. You should now be able to watch television directly from your desktop. No Windows Media Center + TV tuner required.
Web Address : http://www.tv-chrome.com/