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Long Time Without Adobe Flash, Now Trying 10.2

I have gone a long time without using Adobe Flash, because I have tried to extend the battery life of my MacBook while I am on campus for the day (see the links at the bottom of this post for my writings on Flash). In the past, Flash is notorious for draining laptop batteries, because …

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Increasing Your Battery Life on a MacBook

Laptop batteries are a fascinating work of engineering. They live, they die, and then they are resurrected. I have always struggled with prolonging each brief recharged life in my laptop batteries ever since my first Powerbook 145B back in 1993. Now I have a late 2008 aluminum unibody MacBook (MacBook5,1). I am a little displeased …

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