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Save my iPhone battery Written by IT Doc |  |  | 
We, who use and adore our iPhones, sometimes find that they seem to run out of power before the end of the day. Has that ever happened to you? Well, this tip will not help you recharge your iPhone battery using some exotic source of energy, like solar power, but it might help you to stretch it a bit. The other day I was working over by Point Woronzof, you know - down by the airport, and I noticed no cell service - sad, but true. The iPhone, like many similar devices, always wants to keep in touch, so it will continue to increase its power level as it tries to communicate with AT&T (this action will use a lot of battery power), so I simply put the iPhone into Airplane Mode (which shuts off the WiFi and Cellular transceiver) and voila my battery life was greatly extended. One must remember to turn off Airplane Mode when one returns to civilization with cell service. Happy Computing - And if you have any questions about computer, cell phones, etc, be sure to send it to me.
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Does your wireless...Written by IT Doc | | |
Does your wireless seem to fade? Is your iPhone wireless signal less that before - is your life slower in general? You may be the victim of WiFi interference!! But how do you know for sure? Well, if you have an iPhone, go and download the free WiFi app - eWiFi by eFusion - when you run it, the app will show all the wireless access points that your iPhone (and other WiFi enabled equipment) see. When I ran it, I saw that three other access points were using the same channel to communicate as my equipment - repeat after me - this is bad! But Doc, is there a solution? You bet your bottom dollar, there is - hop on over to you wireless access point - mine is an Apple so I started the access point management software (Airport Utility), clicked on Manual Setup, clicked on the wireless tab, then selected a Channel from the drop down box that was not being used. Other access points are typically managed via a web interface - check your documentation to find out how. Once that change was made, the access point restarted and now all the wireless equipment in my house have a interference-free super-highway. But what if I don't have a fancy-smancy iPhone - how do I tell if I have interference? Well, you could hire me and my fancy iPhone to come to your house OR on your wireless enabled Mac click on the wireless icon (top of screen looks like a slice of pie) while depressing the Option key - when you hold the pointer over an access point name, a little box will pop up showing you many things, including the channel that the access point is operating on - Neat, No? Good luck, and drop me a line if you have trouble following this advice.
I'm old - I forgetWritten by IT Doc | | |
Dear IT Doc, You will love this one. I have forgotten the password I set up to open the I tried to install new Office software and they asked for the
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Oh my aching diskWritten by IT Doc | | |
I have a complex setup that uses both Mac computers (2) and Windows computers (2); external drives, a NAS, a pseudo NAS (a USB drive connected to an Apple Air Port) and such. The other day, one of my main external disks, an IOMEGA UltraMax Pro (1.5 TB configured as a RAID 1) died. As we all know RAID 1 is supposed to be good - it basically copies all the data to two disks at the same time. Thus should one drive fail, you still have a good copy of your very important data on the other drive. But how does one get the good data off the unresponsive device, you ask. Well, herein lies our tale today.
iPhone - if not now - when?Written by IT Doc | | |
Dear IT Doc, Are the new iPhones really better? My husband gave me mine in Dec. 2007. I like it fine. Do I need to update? How much faster would it be? I don't store music; what size would I want to get? Does Apple plan to improve the OS shortly? Should I wait until December?
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