Monthly Archives: April 2012
Supercharge Your Fading MacBook Battery
Does your battery feel sluggish and rundown? Just can’t seem to hold a charge anymore? Well, why not try Calibrating?!
If your battery is showing signs of shorter run times, you may want to calibrate the battery (ideally once every 1-3 months).
To calibrate the battery, follow these instructions:
- Fully charge your MacBook.
- Once fully charged, leave it plugged in for at least another 2 hours.
- Remove the MagSafe power adapter, and use your computer until you get the battery level warning message.
- Ignore that message and keep running your notebook.
- Eventually the machine will go to sleep.
- Do NOT plug it in. Instead, let it sleep for at least 5 hours.
- After the time has passed, plug it back in, and let it fully charge.
- Once fully charged, your battery has been properly calibrated.
Thanks to FIPLAB Ltd, makers of BATTERY HEALTH, a free 5-star app that helps keep– well– batteries healthy!
1/2 Price Apple USB Power Adapter w/ Sync Cable
This is a very good deal at the iLounge Store 
Seems I always need another one of these. (I suspect someone in my family is eating them, but I can’t prove it)
Before You Do Anything Else…
If you’ve been listening carefully to your iSensei here, you would have already learned your lesson about not being lazy and taking your poor computer for granted. Same as we all needed to get vaccinated (actually, I was out that day) it behooves us to take note of both the prevention of nastiness and introduction of new capabilities by checking regularly for System Updates. If you haven’t seen this alert pop up yet, then immediately go to the Apple menu in the upper left hand cover (no matter what program you’re in) and select the option below:
This should fully defend us all from the annoying (but not deadly) FLASHBACK Malware Invasion. This also means it’s safe to turn Java* back on, so if you launch your browser or another program and get a dialog box asking if it’s OK to install Java, it appears we’re safe to run it.
* short answer: Java is a programming language that works on top of other programs for enhanced functionality and such.
