Riding the Tech Wave by Michael W. Lind

Work Around the iPod iOS 4.1 Battery Drain Issue

October 4, 2010

I previously wrote about a usable workaround for the iPod iOS 4.0 battery drain issue. I had high hopes that iOS 4.1 would fix the issue, but no luck. I still have to put the iPod into airplane mode to avoid the battery draining while the iPod sleeps. While it is not an excessive amount [...]

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Bloglines Shutdown: Ask.com Misses an Opportunity

September 13, 2010

Ask.com recently announced that it will shut down the Bloglines RSS Feeder service on October 1, 2010. Although I am not a regular Bloglines user, I found it interesting that Ask.com said that being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and Facebook dominate real-time information flow. I [...]

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I Unplugged for a Week and Lived to Tell About It!

September 6, 2010

Experience the power of unplugging and turning off the digital distractions in your life

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Work Around the iPod iOS 4.0 Battery Drain Issue

September 3, 2010

I recently decided to violate my “never install a dot zero release” rule and installed iOS 4.0 on my iPod touch. The features that I could use on my second generation hardware were nice, but I immediately noticed that the battery drained in a couple of days, even though the iPod was in sleep mode. [...]

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