What's Buzzing? - Saving Battery Life for Tablet PC

There does not seem to be a 100% solution to this problem as the battery life seems to have gone down again.The last 2 days, it has happened when Wifi is on. However it only takes an hour or so to recharge to full capacity again. When the battery life goes down, it usually goes down to around 40% which means there is still another 2 to 3  hours of usage in it.

What's Buzzing? - Saving Battery Life for Tablet PC

I had to reduce the brightness of my tablet pc in order to make the battery life last longer. This can be done by going into Settings and then Brightness. At first I thought that this would not look good but after reducing to 25% of its full brightness , it still looked pretty cool. Update: Seems like this may not be the real reason for the sudden drop in battery life though it does help to extend it a little. Still trying to find out the real cause of it.

Appears to be some applications running in the background that could be causing it. I have been using Android Assistant and Super Task Killer to minimise the problem.   So far has not happened in the last few hours. I used the Startup Manager in Android Assistant to stop many applications from running at startup.  As usual, I also turned off Wifi when not using it.

What's Buzzing?- Built two styluses for my tablet pc

I reshared my last post again as it did not come out right after sharing from this tablet - took me a week to find out!

I built two styluses for my tablet pc.  I tried quite a few materials - sponge, batteries, conducting foam etc.  and seems like the conducting foam which had been used for a cpu appear to work best. (Update: The plastic with aluminium foil which is used for packaging some  potato chips and coffee can also be used.  Probably a better alternative  as they are more easily available. Video is as shown below. Note that there are other ways of doing it but this one seems have the best precision so far.)


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What's Buzzing?: Bought a tablet pc for RM169

Finally, I bought a tablet pc at the Malaysia IT Fair in Ipoh. It cost me only RM169 - one of those China made ones  from a company called Hanrit. Has last me more than a week now. Have been doing quite a few things with it. Am typing this with the tablet pc. Have to attach a keyboard and mouse to its micro usb port to do so (connected a usb  hub to the port first). The touch keyboard is too small for serious typing. The tablet comes with a free cover which cost about RM20 and a small stylus that probably cost about RM4.

Overall I am quite pleased with  the product. It is quite good for reading and watching videos. I was a bit disappointed that Maxima, the mathematics software was not so user friendly but I guess that is to be expected for now as the Android version is still in its early stages.

Retirement Dream

So I had my first retirement dream a few weeks ago and told some people I had more or less retired.  Took a few weeks off from blogging as well. I would still be blogging and doing the usual stuff but maybe in a more relaxed manner. Who knows - I may come out of retirement soon but for now, I guess I am still  in retirement mode.