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Macbook Battery Life Lasting Time

Apple claim that the 55 watt battery supplied with the Apple MacBook lasts for 6 hours. This has not been the case in my experience, I’m lucky if Apple MacBook Battery lasts 3 hours. When only really use the Macbook for Internet, email and general usage, no movies etc. However, i think this to be because of the batteries first charge. The general recommendation is to leave and overcharge a lithium battery for the first charge. The temptation to play with the MacBook was too much and I used it while the apple mac book battery charged.

Jere is the specification of the macbook battery,

Battery and power

• 55-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery (with integrated charge indicator LEDs) providing up to 6 hours of battery life
• 60W MagSafe Power Adaptor with cable management system
• MagSafe power adaptor port

Longer lasting…

I believe this is the reason why the battery doesn’t last as long as it should. A good point about the MacBook is that it shows you how long the battery is going to last by giving you an accurate lasting time and it goes down as you use it. Next time I will resist tempation and charge the battery fully before i use it.

Of-course this doesn’t mean that your Mac-book battery is completely knackered so it would still come in handy as a spare battery, if you have done a similar thing i would suggest purchasing a spare MacBook battery.

Crysis Patch

Today Crysis Latest Patch was released and is available to download! (Patch version v1.1)

The Crysis Patch is about 139.1mb in size and has alot of common bug fixes etc. Here are a full list of featurs that the crysis patch v1.1 contains.

Now its really time to see if what you had waited for along with a lot of other crysis fans was worth it, and to see if Crytek have done a good job in keeping us the community happy . I’ll update this post with my thoughts on the patch a bit later.

For now you can download the crysis latest patch ( version 1.1 ) from any of these mirrors below and a full list of bug which the patch will amend below that.

Crysis Patch Mirrors for Downloading

in Crysis
ActionTrip
Clan00
Crymod
Crysis-France
EA FTP
FileFront
File Shack
Gamers Hell* Recommended by Rediscussed.com
Game Spot
StrategyInformer

Fixes:

• Fixed: Potential crash in D3D10
• Fixed: Orange boxes apearing when hispec savegame loaded into lowspec game.
• Fixed: Inconsistent damage dealt to vehicles when shot by LAW.
• Fixed: Reflection resolution on D3D10, MultiGPU reflection update fix
• Fixed: Memory leak with FSAA modes
• Fixed: Infinite ammo hacks.
• Fixed: Memory leak in D3D10 when switching screen modes
• Fixed: Muti optimizations
• Fixed: When player melees during gun raise animation, their gun will be in a permanently raised position.
• Fixed: Crash when loading savegame with level exported recently by editor
• Fixed: Virtual keyboard does not function properly when a game pad is connected
• Fixed: Users can lose the ability to look around with the Right Stick
• Fixed: Setting screen resolution to “default” stops user from selecting last resolution
• Fixed: Bug when changing resolution in D3D10
• Fixed: Issues with Depth of field and water droplets in D3D10
• Fixed: Crash on NaN warning

Updates:

• Added: Motion Blur UI and V.SYNC UI options
• Optimized: Motion blur
• Optimized: FSAA (Full Scene Anti-Aliasing)
• Optimized sound id implementation
• Enabled VSync functionality in D3D10
• New benchmarking files for ice CPU benchmark.
• http/xmlrpc password protected remote control session
• Marked debug cvars as cheat
• F12 (screenshot) now works in restricted mode as well

Tweaks:

• Reduced LAW splash damage vs. infantry in PowerStruggle mode
• Slowed Rocket projectile speed down in MP slightly
• Disabled automatic turret bounding boxes on vehicles to prevent issues with LAW hit
• detection
• Reduced grenade explosion radius in multiplayer
• Clamped water tesselation to avoid cheating in MP
• MultiGPU improvements with depth map updates

A short patch error and troubleshooting guide below:
Quote from CryMod.com Community Manager Alex:

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Greetings Community!We have seen some people are reporting issues when trying to install patch 1.1 for Crysis. Following are a few early workarounds for you to look at.

1. Revert Back To Original Files

One solution is to revert back the original files your Crysis installation which include:

• ..\Crysis\Game\Localized: different language .pak file (use the standard langauge .pak you have when installing the game)
• ..\Crysis\Game\Config\: modified .cfg files (use the standard .cfg files delivered with Crysis)
• ..\Crysis\Game\Config\CVarGroups: modified .cfg files (use the standard .cfg files delivered with Crysis)
• ..\Crysis\Game\: modified .pak files (use the standard .pak files delivered with Crysis)
• As alternative a clean and fresh Crysis installation might be the solution as well.

2. Install Problems Under Vista

In the case you are running Windows Vista and get an error during the installation please do following:

• Right click on the Patch 1.1 Setup .exe file
• Click on “Run as Administrator”.

3. Turn Off Daemon-Tools

If you are running Daemon Tools turn them off and try to re-start the installation of Patch 1.1.

4. EA Download Manager - Install Problems

We are currently investigating and trying to provide a solution as quickly as possible.

Please let us know if you find further workarounds or if there are additional problems.

regards,
-alex

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Enjoy the latest patch, Check back soon after a little gaming time for an update at Rediscussed.com!

Im about to write a short review on the samsung g600, which i have owned for a few months.

So please read on why i had to just make the g600 review, to help all our readers.

I havn’t been impressed with the samsung g600 mobile phone at all, all the phones i have had before i am happy with. This phone has been disappointing. I’m comparing this mostly to my Sony Ericsson w810i which is only £70-£80 now. And i think that phone does far more.

Further more..

The samsung g600 mobile phone has a few disappointments as follows:

• Firstly you cannot set your message tone as an mp3. You have to select from about 4 set tones.
• If you want to set a ringing tone it can only be done from the mp3’s on the phone (not memory card).
• No slide tone like the other Samsungs.
• The mobile runs slowly, when switching menus and texting the response from the mobile is slow.
• Bluetooth on g600 fails to some mobiles like the sony erricson, but the other mobile does find the samsung.
• The songs and other content loaded onto the memory card gets automatically moved to the phone, unless the phones memory’s full.
• The sound is very tinny compared to my last mobile. not as clear. Expected it to be a little less as my last mobile was a walkman mobile, not that much though.
• The paintof the shiney metalic samsung g600, is chipping off at the side already after a month, i keep my phone in good condition all the time my last mobiles hardly have a scratch on them after 2 years.
• No flashlight function where you do not need to have to be taking a picture to have the light on. I find this quite useful sometimes.

3 Good points about the g600 are that…

• You can create your own themes for the phone (on the mobile itself).
• The camera being 5 mega pixel and video being o.k quality
• The screen is clear.

‘The samsung mobile g600 isnt as good as it looks I’d recommend getting the new Sony Ericsson w910i, honestly even the w810i worth £80 now is better.’

I’m stuck with this phone for now, until a i decide to buy the new Sony Ericsson mobile. For the value of this mobile phone i don’t think its worth it at all. Well thats my view so far on the phone.

Thats it for my g600 review!

We have had many hits from people just searching how to open crysis console just requesting how to open console and type in a few commands might come naturally to some people but if you don’t know how or you have never done it, you need to be shown.

To open crysis console you press the the button to the left of ‘1′, below ‘Esc’, just above ‘tab’ on most standard keyboards, Ive included a keyboard picture which points out the correct button, this button is common for console in most games,

type normally the command you want to use.