Category: 950: iOS 9 Released; Apple and Power Efficiency

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    Don
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    Grace and I are having nightly “discussions” as we try to clean up the house for rental while we spend our winter in Key West. It is a battle between the need to “purge” and my proclivity to be a pack rat. It is a drawer a night and I just cannot throw away that…

  • Apple Knows Power Efficiency

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    Mike Moffit
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    Long-time Kibbles readers might know that I’m kind of an electricity/power/engineering buff. I’ve written articles for Kibbles before about “*solar power*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb872/, batteries and other “*power generation*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb870/ techniques. It’s easy to focus on power generation because it’s flashy, techy, and seems like the go-to place if you’re trying to use power that’s greener. We often forget…

  • iOS 9 Making Things Easier

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    Don
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    I have been playing with the beta of iOS 9 for some time and I have already gotten so used to some of the new features that I no longer consider them new. But for most people these improvements will be a pleasant surprise. I definitely encourage you to download iOS 9 so you can…

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    Don
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    _Dear Friends,_ It is a heat wave! Temps have been soaring into the high 80s during the day and cool at night making for a perfect end for the last few days of summer. I went to a big get together at the home of Ben Cohen from that ice cream company for the VBSR…