How-To: Fix iPhone Battery Drain
I was playing around on my iPhone the other day after noticing the location arrow all up in my business. I checked out Settings and couldn’t find any apps displaying a purple (active) arrow. Puzzled, I closed all open apps. Still, that location arrow was mocking me. Back into the iPhone’s Location Services settings I went one level deeper into System Services and sure enough there was a purple arrow next to Setting Time Zone.
Instead of periodically polling nearby cell towers to determine the iPhone’s location, the new iOS 5 feature constantly talks to cell towers. As a result, and regardless of which iPhone you own, your battery drains and drains and drains. The good news…there’s a fix.
Beastie Boys Make Some Noise with Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Do you live under a rock? Do you have Internet under your rock? If so, you’ll be happy to know that the Beastie Boys have leaked their latest album: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. There’s a clean version (which you could listen to if you’re a hipster douche) and a sweet mother of awesome explicit set of 16 tracks for the die hard used-to-listen-to-em-on-cassette fans.
If you wanna listen to HSC Pt2 here’s how…
Colbert sings Friday and Fallon hides an egg
Back in March, Stephen Colbert auctioned a self-portrait and raised $26K for needy students. To raise more money he took it to the next level and announced on The Colbert Report that his BFFFSM (Best Friend Forever For Six Months) Jimmy Fallon would match his donation. Only problem was Fallon never agreed. So, Fallon pulled a Colbert and announced on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that if his audience could raise the $26K Colbert would sing Rebecca Black’s “Friday” with The Roots (Fallon’s in-house band).
Long story longer Colbert eventually sang Friday with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and Taylor Hicks. Check it out…
YesThatCanBe Makes Tweeting 140 Kinds of Easy
If you’re tired of coming up with 140 characters on your own to share with the Twitterverse then I have the site for you. That can be my next tweet mines your Twitter archive and generates a Tweet for you. All you have to do is say, “YesThatCanBe!”
All you have to do is enter your @username (or anyone’s really) and click GET YOUR NEXT TWEET. If you’re satisfied then post the tweet.
Does it work? Read a few of my next tweets and judge for yourself.
