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BEST BATTERY SAVING APP EVER!!!! A+++++ - K Meow, Mar 26, 2013
it has saved my battery up by 80% Great app.! - Jesse Kennedy, March 3, 2013
Jaw dropping amazing - A Google User, December 31, 2012
"...a good mix of both simplicity and battery savings to make it worthy download for most people." - androidstatic.com
Trend Micro is a leading global software developer and has been solving complex consumer computer problems for 20+ years with innovative industry- leading technology.
Based on user feedback this version includes a new power saving report to help you keep track of your battery savings and the advanced power saver automates even more tasks.
For questions or comments please visit www.trendmicro.com/longevityhelp or email email@example.com
This app includes powerful features for free, along with a 30 day trial of our more advanced functions that can be purchased for continued use.
Fee Version:
- Just-a-Phone: A single tap turns off power draining features that are not required for phone use. Keeps you in contact for as long as possible.
- Power Saver Report: Keeps track of power savings
- One-click Optimize: improves the performance of the device leading to improved battery life
- Power Hog Pie Chart: a simple view of what is draining the battery
- Power Hog App List: Identifies which apps are draining the most battery and enables fast action
- Full Charge Counter: Informs you how long it will take to fully charge your device
Premium Version, includes all features of the free version plus;
- Premium Just-a-Phone: Allows you to choose the functions of just-a-phone and set a time of power limit to automatically turn it on.
- Power Hog App Alerts: As you download new apps Longevity uses cloud intelligence to warn if a particular app will have a high impact on the battery, and enables you to immediately remove the app.
- Widget: Place the widget on your home screen to have fast access to the features of Longevity.
- Smart Power Saver: Automates power saving features when your device is not in use or WiFi is not connected.
- Fully Charged Alert: Longevity will sound an alert when your phone is ready to be taken off the charger.
This product may be incompatible with other battery saving products such as: JuiceDefender, Norton Mobile Utilities & Task Killer, NQ Android Booster, Advanced Task Killer, Battery Defender, Battery Dr saver, Battery Saver, PowerMax
Keywords: Battery Optimizer, Battery Saver, Battery Enhancer, Battery Life, Power Saver, System Tuner, Utility, Mobile Utilities, Juice.
Easy Battery Saver
Does your phone always need charging, even once a day?
Does your phone always die at crucial moment due to running out of battery?
Want to find a perfect solution?
Now is your answer!
Easy Battery Saver is the easiest energy-saving application which helps you to extend your battery life and optimized your mobile hand-on experience.
Easy Battery Saver is a powerful manager app specifically designed to extend battery life and optimize using habit.It saves your battery by intelligently dealing with phone's network connectivity, screen time out and screen brightness. What's more, the considerable sleep schedule setting will save your battery when you are sleeping.
Easy Battery Saver is easy to use by four preset saving modes and advanced customized mode. Select one mode, the problems will go away.
1) General Saving Mode owns the basic network control, screen control and sleep schedule to meet your normal battery saving needs.
2) Intelligent Saving Mode manage the eight different controls and smart to save more battery than general saving mode.
3) Super Power Saving Mode adjusts your phone's standby time. You do not need to worry about whether your phone dies at crucial moment.
4) Advanced Customized Mode offers you more personalized options to allow Easy Battery Saver to manage applications and adjust system settings to optimize your battery efficiency.
5) Normal Mode means nothing change for your battery.
Furthermore, tutorials in Easy Battery Saver will guide you how to deal with multi-tasking and how to save your battery efficiency.
No matter in what situation, no matter who you are. Easy Battery Saver will always find the best solution for you.
Just stretch your finger, you'll find out the different.
* Optional modes that is easy to choose
* Visualized battery status on main page
* Save more than 50% battery
* Extend the battery working life
* Battery consumption list of real-time running items
* Simple, interactive and helpful tutorial
* Notice of how to use battery better
Language Support
Many Easy battery users would like to advise and translate English version to other minority languages. At present, we are looking for Easy Battery Saver users who can help.
In particular, anyone who would like to help us with localization can join our collaborative translation platform
We will acknowledge language translator on Google Play Description section. Easy Battery Saver team would like to appreciate your help and this would not happen without fans support.
Finally, Easy Battery Saver thank you for all the fans being here.
User Reviews:
Saved my phone! I love this app! After the jelly bean update my battery wouldn't last half the day now it lasts all day! –Alyssa Doyen
"Better than Juice Defender on my previous Android phone, I used Juice Defender and I was very happy with it. When I got my captivate Juice Defender did not seem to be giving me the extra legs it did on my old phone. Easy Battery Saver helps maximize the battery for an entire day without needing Juice."- Arthur Rabinovitz
"Great I use to have no battery life on my phone but now it's great."-Josh Warren
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Battery Saver 2
faster in extremely easier way. It's 100% free.
"Definitely an app everyone will be thrilled to use." - AskyourAndroid.com
"Certainly worth giving a try" - AndroidHeadlines.com
"This one will change the trend." - Apps400.com
"Can considerably decrease battery usage." - Apps4review.com
...and many more reviews!
8 in 1 Toolbox mix app! – Deep sleep mode, Task killer/optimizer, Life indicator, Settings optimizer, Charge alert, Status bar notification, Widget, and App uninstaller. And trust me, it's still VERY EASY TO USE! Download this app/widget for free, save battery power & boost your phone performance!
★---1."Deep Sleep Settings"---★
✓ Eventhough you are not using the phone, it syncs data every seconds that will drain your battery life.
✓ While not using your phone, set your "Sleep Mode" to cut down the data-sync to your desired time every 5min/30min/never.
★---2.One-touch "Task Optimizer"/"Task Killer"---★
✓ Kill tasks with extremely simple one-touch "Optimize" button to save energy!
✓ Indicates memory usage level for before / after. Defend your phone from drain!
★---3."Battery Life Indicator"---★
✓ Battery Indicator in percent (%), and all battery life level is indicated with cool Droid icon.
✓ Indicates the remaining/limit time for Talktime,Game,Standby,AudioPlayback,MoviePlayback,WebSurfing,and Reading.
★---4."Settings Optimizer"---★
✓ Turns off various functions with one-touch button.
✓ Set Wi-Fi,Bluetooth,Auto-sync data,Auto-rotation,GPS,screen-brightness to optimize/save power!
★---5."Alarm notification"---★
✓ Alarm notifies you when the power is charged to 100%/70%/50%/30%/lower than 20%! (on/off available)
✓ Estimates the remaining time the power requires to be, at specified life percentage.
★---6."Status Bar Notification"---★
✓ Now You can chek your battery percentage at your phone status bar! (on/off available)
✓ Also check the health through pull-down notification bar
★---7."Battery/Optimizer Widget"---★
✓ 4*1 Battery/Optimizer widget to check your Optimize Level/Battery Level!
✓ Easy access to the Battery Saver App with one-touch
★---8.Application "Uninstaller"---★
✓ Application manager included
✓ Batch uninstall to save your power life!
The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
One Touch Battery Saver
Click "Power saving"button again to close the mode and return to last activated mode.
Two kinds of desktop widget(1x1,2x1) to help you quick start and close power saving mode.
*Battery Monitor, clearly shows the status of battery life and usage.
*Switching & managing Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, background light, sound, synchronization in one touch, saves battery with efficiency.
*Self-Customized Saving Mode, user can adjust the battery saving setting freely to fit each one's needs.
*Battery Usage Setting, will adjust the battery usage status automatically to monitor the battery life more accurately.
*3 different battery models to choose, to fit your needs and style.
*Tab widget: comes with 2 styles (1x1, 2x1), different styles of widget allow you to turn on the app with one tap! Easy and fast!
If you like the product, please give us 5-star. Your questions and comments are welcomed to our feedback email address email@example.com, and we will revise accordingly in time.
Battery is a small, sleek and elegant app that will help you follow the current battery percentage on your Android device, and even serve as a battery saver.
With Battery, every time and everywhere you will know if your battery is charged enough to play a game, a movie, or to browse the web.
There is no other battery app with such intuitive, neat and gorgeous interface as Battery has. The UI of Battery is as simple as possible, but tremendously practical.
We will work constantly to improve Battery, adding in the very near future new features, like useful battery information, battery saver tips, new widgets, and many more.
✓ Displays battery information in percent (%)
✓ Supports the lock screen widget introduced in Android 4.2
✓ Offers quality support for Android devices - from Android 1.5 to Android 4.3
✓ Full support for all known screen resolutions
✓ Power source indicator
✓ The precise battery level is displayed in 1% increments
✓ It is helpful and can serve as a battery saver.
✓ Battery is incredibly lightweight!
✓ Additional battery information:
- Temperature
- Voltage
- Health status
- Technology
Get in touch with us and follow the latest news regarding our apps:
Battery HD
- Widget
- Notification bar
- Charge Alerts
- Usage chart
Instantly know how many hours you have left for:
- Listening to music
- Watching video
- Talking on the phone
- Internet Browsing ( WiFi / Edge / 3G / 4G )
- Standby
- Time left to recharge
- Time to use LED Flashlight
- 2D and 3D Games
- Reading books
- GPS navigation
- Video chat
- Taking photos
- Recording videos
If you have a new or rare device, please run calibration tests to share your results with the community and make this app even more precise !
Try it now ! It's simply the best at what it does.
Deep Sleep Battery Saver
LifeHacker: "Plenty of apps save your battery life, but this one takes the idea to a whole new level"
During deepsleep mode, Wifi, 3G are turned off, background apps are stopped. Therefore, most apps are not working, including Facebook, Google Service, etc,. It then constantly wakes up in order to download email, sync Facebook status, etc,. It's defined by deepsleep frequency and woke up duration
In advanced mode (PRO), you can customize more parameters, including day/night settings, active period, screen timeout, sync strategy, ignored apps, etc,
☆ 5 pre-defined profiles: Gentle, Balance, Strong, Aggressive, Slumberer. They varies on frequency, duration and other settings. The former is less disruptive, but save less battery and vise versa
☆ Custom profile (PRO) - for advanced users. If you need more customization, select this profile and modify it
☆ Custom profile settings
- Separate between weekday vs weekend settings
- Frequency: device is turned on DS mode at a selected frequency
- Duration: device is woke up after for a selected duration after a each frequency cycle
- Wileless & network: control radio setting during DS on
- Sync: Control sync strategy and sync account, auto-sync
- Apps: Select apps that will be stopped during DS on
- CPU: Process twist - root only
- Night period: During this period, device is always in DS mode
☆ General settings
- Screen off delay: a short delay before DS start. This option is used to avoid quick screen toggles
- Whitelist: Apps are always ignored when DS on, such as online music player
- Ingored recent apps: ignore recent apps
- Use APN settings: twist 3G/4G/mobile data toggler
- Check background data: If selected, it will ignore DS mode if traffic is above a defined threshold
- Traffic threshold & traffic sampling frequency
☆ Tasker plugin, Locale plugin
☆ During deep sleep mode on, this app may disrupt your normal activities, such as your email notification comes with larger delay
☆ If your setting (ex. Wifi) is off, DS Battery Saver does not control it during DS mode on
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Battery Saver
The best results with up to:
- 107% in standby mode
- 119% during a phone call
- 121% when surfing the net
- 131% for listening to music
- 132% while watching a video
- 140% when playing games
extended battery life
Thanks to Battery saver you extend the life of your battery without decrease the brightness, loose range, decrease the volume, the CPU power or close apps, because batter saver only optimizes the process that are running.
When you click on advertisements delivered by Battery Saver, you will typically be directed to a third-party's web page. We may pass certain information to the third parties operating or hosting these pages, including your email address, phone number, and a list of other apps on your device.
3x battery saver - iBattery
This App saves the battery by disconnecting an Internet connection during sleep of the screen.
Evaluation of this App of Japan is higher than "JuiceDefender".
During sleep of the screen, it not only disconnects an Internet connection, but also ends all the running Apps.
Furthermore,If it becomes the amount of charge which you set, it will become flight mode automatically.
That is, the danger that charge will be lost becomes very low.
(Sorry if your OS is over "4.1",it is impossible)
*the experiment of a power-saving result was conducted by GARAXY S3.
(Saving effect of charge is more demonstrated under environment with an unstable Internet connectivity)
◎Cautions etc
・"iBattery" disconnects a internet connection during sleep of the screen.
・Change of ON-OFF can be performed in a notifications area.
・Speed of re-connection is depending on your device.
・Internet connection may not be re-connected automatically after screen-on.
It depends on a device or a OS.
sorry we cannot correct.
・There is also no advertisement.
◎It was introduced by various media of Japan.
and many other ・・・
NQ Easy Battery Saver FREE
Save your phone's battery and boost its speed to optimize performance with Easy Battery Saver!
NQ Easy Battery Saver is a useful optimization app which helps you to speed up your mobile phone and extend battery life!
Download for FREE now to improve your phone's performance!
☆Smart Assistant: [NEW]
- Smart Assistant, the innovative design of Easy Battery Saver, will be staying on the side of your screen and always ready to boost your phone!
- You can touch the Smart Assistant to open main dashboard or drag it to the preset place on screen to launch boosting process. It's funny like playing game!
☆Quick Settings☆[NEW]
√ For easy management of frequently used elements, 12 control buttons are added on main dashboard of Easy Battery Saver, which allows one-tap access to turn on/off or adjust Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, mobile data, screen timeout and screen brightness, etc..
☆Battery Usage Monitor☆[NEW]
√ Reports on current battery level.
√ Calculate in real-time remaining battery usage time.
√ Save power with just one touch!
☆Optimization Tool☆[NEW]
√Easy Battery Saver keeps an eye on all running apps, and shows you the memory usage of each app.
√Easy Battery Saver optimizes your phone by killing running background processes, you can lock apps that you don't want to kill.
For more news about free apps & mobile productivity updates, please visit NQ Mobile's Blog: http://www.nq.com/blog/
Follow NQ Mobile on Twitter & Facebook to get instant updates on mobile security & productivity news.
Other apps from NQ Mobile include: NQ Mobile Security & Antivirus, NQ Mobile Vault (Vault), Call Blocker, Super Task Killer, and NQ Family Guardian (Beta).
**Please note that installing the following apps such as: Juice Defender, Battery Booster, RAM Booster & Battery Power Booster together with Android Booster may make your phone unstable or cause potential conflict.**
Battery Saver +
Whether your phone battery is getting short, and offten no electricity at a critical time.
Whether you need to switch different scene, but the operation is quite cumbersome.
So, try to Battery Saver+, this is the newest and best battery tool on the market today, which make your phone using more longer, operating more conv enient.
√ Real-time battery status display
√ Real-time battery status in the task bar
√ Provide real-time battery widget
√ Provide quick switch widget
√ Custom battery-saving mode, One Tap to switch mode
√ One Tap to turn on/off WI-FI
√ One Tap to turn on/off mobile network
√ One Tap to turn on/off automatic synchronization
√ One Tap to turn on/off Bluetooth
√ One Tap to turn on/off GPS
√ One Tap to turn on/off auto rotation
√ One Tap to turn on/off haptic feedback
√ One Tap to adjust screen brightness
√ One Tap to adjust ring volume
√ One Tap to adjust the vibration
√ Provide Screen Timeout setting
√ Do not need Root Permissions
Similar applications on the market are: JuiceDefender, Battery Dr saver, Battery Widget, Battery
√ Friendly interface design:
1 blue color scheme, visual comfort
2 simple layout of the program, more convenient operation
√ Better user experience:
1 desktop widgets for more convenient operation
2 custom model display more intuitive, operating more easier
Battery Saver+ is the newest and best battery tool on the market today, just try it.
If you have any questions, just contact us: email@example.com
Battery Saver - Free
* Intelligent Save - Automatically switches from normal mode to economy modes when the battery power reaches low levels
* Power Profiles – Easily create custom profiles that suit the precise needs of your device usage patterns
* Advanced Battery Notifications - Reminds you when your battery has reached full charge and should be disconnected from the power supply
* Quick Actions – Enable or disable features with a single touch to quickly extend the life of your battery
* Utilization Stats- At-a-glance statistics tell you which apps and features are drawing the most power
AVG Battery Saver & TuneUp
With a range of easy to use smart utilities like a task killer, power saver, storage space manager and data usage monitor, you can fine tune your mobile device to keep it running more smoothly and potentially at faster speed. It can even keep track of your mobile data usage to help you make sure that you don't go over your data limit.
Install the AVG TuneUp Widget on your device's home screen so you always have a quick snapshot of what's going on with your device.
Download FREE now!
With AVG TuneUp you get:
More Power – extend your battery life.
More Stability – kill tasks to improve device stability and potentially speed it up.
More Space – review and remove unwanted apps or move them to an SD card to free up internal memory.
More Control – monitor mobile data usage so you do not go over the limit and pay extra.
Product features:
Battery Consumption:
● Extend your battery life - set an alert to let you know when you run out of juice so you can turn off specific functions to save power for when you need it most.
● Monitor apps, utilities and services power consumption.
● Power Saving Options - lists the utilities and services that are draining your device's juice and lets you set which ones you want to switch off or change to save power.
Task Killer:
● Many apps and services are running on your device which may affect your device's speed and stability. Task killer lists the active apps, games, utilities and services on your device, tells you how much memory they're using, for how long they've been active, and lets you stop the ones you don't need running to free up memory space and potentially speed up your device.
Data Usage:
● Stop worrying about how much data you use by setting up your mobile data alerts. AVG TuneUp will let you know when you're nearing your limit so you can make the right decisions.
● See a breakdown of data usage per app, the total amount you used and how much remains. Customize your alerts based on data size, usage frequency, start date and alert threshold.
Storage Usage:
● With space at a premium on your phone, it's good to know what's on it so you can free up space for the things you really want.
● We all have apps we no longer use or run in the background without us necessarily knowing, so if your device freezes up often, easily delete the ones you don't want to help get things running smoothly and potentially speed it up.
● Storage Usage Monitor: find out how much internal memory and SD card space you're already using and how much is left, with a list of all the apps and utilities that are on your phone and how much space they use. Simply delete the ones that you don't want any more to make room for the things you do. You can also move apps from the internal memory to the SD card.
Start taking control over your device's performance today with AVG TuneUp! The design is straightforward and easy to use. Fine tune your mobile device with: battery saver, task killer, data usage, and storage space manager.
Download FREE now!
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AntiVirus FREE for Smartphones: http://www.googleplay.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antivirus
AntiVirus FREE for Tablets: http://www.googleplay.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antivirus.tablet
AVG Memory & Cache Cleaner: http://www.googleplay.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avg.cleaner
AVG PrivacyFix (social networking privacy): http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avg.privacyfix
AVG Image Shrink & Share: http://www.googleplay.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avg.shrinker
App Uninstaller by AVG: http://www.googleplay.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avg.uninstaller
For more info visit the AVG site: http://www.avgmobilation.com/
One Touch Battery Saver
Comparing to simliar apps, "One Touch Battery Saver" is easy to use without complicated settings and operations. It's stylish with simple interphase!
It comes with 2 sets of widget, just tap on the widget to turn it on! Fast and easy!
Battery Monitor, clearly shows the status of battery life and usage.
Switching & managing Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, background light, sound, synchronization in one touch, saves battery with efficiency.
Self-Customized Saving Mode, user can adjust the battery saving setting freely to fit each one's needs.
Battery Usage Setting, will adjust the battery usage status automatically to monitor the battery life more accurately.
Battery Saver (root)
Unlike other applications do, this application will not cut-off the mobile, wifi, etc connections while sleep, will not slow down the data connections, will not slow down the processors, etc. but this application will configure for the best battery settings in the system ROM for better battery life.
Boosters Plus BatterySaver Pro is available. If you love Performance Booster, RAM Booster, Internet Booster, and Battery Saver applications now build into one application. Four applications build into one application, the Pro Edition with some new functions. See more from developer (more by Gejos Enterprise) link to find Boosters Plus BatterySaver Pro.
THIS APPLICATION IS FOR ROOTED DEVICE ONLY. Find out what a ROOTED device is, see at the bottom of this description.
Battery Saver needs root permissions. You need to allow the SuperUser privileges to run this application. Without the SuperUser privileges, this application cannot change battery configuration in system ROM. (got statistic from user emails that using SuperSU by chainfire never fail the SuperUser request). Why need root permissions? Because this application definitly NOT a placebo nor prank.
DISCLAIMER: It is made available for use at your own risk with no warranty of any kind. The default of this application is not active and by activate this application, means that you have agreed with the contents of the disclaimer.
Please note:
in fact, it is hard to test in several minutes (for some reason)... you need to test for hours or day use to find out how it works.
Use back button to save and execute new setting (not the home button).
"Benchmarks are used almost everywhere as a standard by which something can be measured or judged by. But when does it really matter and should you even care?"
[ for me, the "real benchmark" is what you feel and what you get, while you use your device (in the same device of course). ---first of words "for me" mean personal opinion and may be different with you and others. ]
If you love this application, please consider the donate version. see more from developer (more by Gejos Enterprise) link to find the donate version. Your donation will help to support my work. Thank you.
This application is FREE and will always be FREE.
Battery Saver 100% ads free. It's cost me US$25,00 for publishing this application to Google Play :)
so please rate and review wisely, and please read this description first before rate and review. Thank you.
If you don't know what a ROOTED device is, you can find a pretty good explanation here: [http://www.androidauthority.com/rooting-for-dummies-a-beginners-guide-to-root-your-android-phone-or-tablet-10915/]
If your device is UNROOT, please do not review with negative comment or give low rate. This application cannot run on unroot devices. It won't work on unroot device. Thank you for your fairness and kindness.
All my apps have "unique" method to unload and reload service since the first I created Wake My Android Pro. It will automatic kill itself to save RAM and will reactive the service when need it. Don't worry, this app still active even you cannot find it in the system as running.
If you love this application, please consider the donate version. see more from developer (more by Gejos Enterprise) link to find the donate version. Your donation will help to support my work. Thank you.
***** there's just a donate version and please don't cheat ;) give me five, 5 stars please, batterysaver, battery saver, battery, saver, batterybooster, battery booster, booster, gejos, gunawidjaja joseph, G. Joseph, G.JOSeph, GEJOS is my nickname, INDONESIA tanah air beta, I love INDONESIA *****
Beautiful Battery Disc
Beautiful Battery Disc has two sizes: 1x1 and 2x2.
Widget does not drain battery. It receives only battery broadcasts.
Circle battery widget fits perfect for Ice Cream Sandwich Devices with Holographic User Interface.
To add Battery Disc widget press: Home->Menu->Add->Widgets->Battery Disc
Press Battery Disc widget to display detailed information about your smartphone's battery.
This Battery Indicator will help you to save battery life of you phone by presenting delightful hd graphics showing current battery charge status.
App contains ads from following Ad networks: Mopub, Smaato, Leadbolt
Battery Dr saver+a task killer
Old name:Battery Doctor to Save Battery or Battery saver.
If it forces close,please Clear the data of Battery Dr on the "Manage Applications" screen or uninstall and reinstall it.
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★---Extend your Battery life---
Do you want to make your battery stronger?Dr.Battery can help you to save power.Download the battery app now!
Improve your Battey life!Max your Battery life.Make your phone faster and smoother.
✔Help you to kill tasks quickly and reset your phone easily!
✔Show battery health,temperature,talktime etc.
✔To improve your phone's battery,you should kill running tasks,adjust screen brightness(volume),turn off wifi, gps, bluetooth,Auto-sync etc.
✔Battery Dr saver is the best Battery Improver/Battery Booster/battery saver tool.As your Battery Helper,it helps you to improve battery life .
✔Includes: Power Management(Battery Management),Battery Notifier, Battery Monitor,Power Control,task killer.
★---Battery Information/Battery Watcher---
Displays the battery status, battery information and so on.
✔Displays the health and the temperature of the battery.
✔Full charge alarm
✔Show Battery Usage
✔Battery Time displays the remaining time(battery's running time) for:TalkTime(2G/3G/4G),AudioTime,VideoTime,Web Surfing Time and Idle Time.
✔Battery indicator
✔Reset Battery Profile
★---About Full Charge---
✔1:Be sure that your battery power is less than 20%,and then launch this app and plug the charger cable.
✔2:Recharge your battery directly to 100% with no pause.
✔3:It will alert you when charging is complete.
With the Settings,you can extend Battery Life(boost Battery Life).It improves your Battery Performance.
✔Set screen timeout time
✔Volume control:Ringer volume,Notification volume,Media volume,Alarm volume,Voice call volume,System volume.
✔Set screen brightness.
✔Ringer control:Silent mode,Vibration mode,Sound only mode.
✔GPS receiver/ GPS setting
✔2G/3G toggle(mobile data)
✔Set Wi-Fi/wifi,Bluetooth,Auto-sync data,Airplane mode
★---Task Killer/advanced task manager---
The task killer like ATK allows you to kill processes on your Android quickly . The best process manager.
✔Simple,quick to use
✔Memory booster/ram booster.
✔Ignore list
✔Show the memory
✔Notification in the status bar
✔one-click task killer widget
✔app manager:Switch to/Detail/Uninstall apps.
★---Other functions---
Search history eraser(history cleaner):
1 click to clear search history and all cached files.
1 tap to erase history data ,delete web Browser history,clipboard data etc. Cleanup your phone.
★---histroy version---
✔v2.3.1:Fix the "Clear history button hide the history at bottom" bug.
1.Support Chinese
2.Add Clear History button to "History" screen.
1.Adjust the screen for italian version
2.Fix some crash bugs
3.Clear cache automatically.
1.Tips:Help you to save battery.
2.Move "Battery Time information" to "Settings"
3.Share function.
✔v1.6.7:Fix some bugs on 2.3(Gingerbread)
1.Change some images.
2.Fix 1 bug on 2.3(Gingerbread)
3.Support French
1.Add "Mobile data" button(on "Settings" screen).
2.Add "Refresh" button (on "Tasks" screen)
*one-click killer widget.(Some friends want it,but I think widgets will drain your battery)
*Optimize "Full charge"
*Change the time format in history(from 10:2 to 10:02).
*Remove the camera permission.
(Some spelling mistakes fixed in italian version)
1.Support Italian.
2.Show memory on Tasks screen.
3.remove battery widget.
✔v1.2.3:Fix a bug on Galaxy S
✔v1.2.2:Replace some images
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by travellingdave
Calgary, Alberta
December 25, 2006
From journal Two Days in Maui
by quiltergal
Jacksonville, Oregon
November 7, 2005
From journal Marvelous Maui
by Foxboro Marmot
Foxboro, Massachusetts
August 4, 2008
Probably fewer than half take a few minutes to stroll along the paved paths on the far side of the bridge, to go up to the overlook, then down to where two valley streams join together.
For a low stress hike, cross the bridge and follow the trail downhill. Just before the paved path starts to parallel the stream, you'll notice a few dirt paths off to the right through the brush. To make it clearer, there's a sign asking people to stay on the trail.
We've always read the sign to mean that those of us who choose to leave the paved path should keep to established trails instead of bushwacking through the brush. We do not interpret the sign to restrict access in any way. The locals we've met along the way agree.
The paths combine into one which makes it way upstream along the right side of the stream. As you walk along, you'll find little secluded pools among the rocks, occasionally with a family or a few people splashing or soaking in the cool water. Proper etiquette allows you to say hello or chat briefly, but etiquette also calls for you to find your own pool. It's impolite to barge into some else's tropic idyll!
Don't be tempted to try the stream flowing beneath the bridge. If you hop over the railing at the far side of the bridge and follow the trail upstream, you'll find the path soon becomes vague. Besides, the stream is less user-friendly with few comfortable soaking spots. We've done this so you don't have to!
For a more adventurous hike, head up to the overlook. At the top of the steps, just before the covered overlook, there's another sign reminding people to stay on the paths. On the other side of the railing to which the sign is attached there's a clear dirt path heading up the ridge. Again, we've always interpreted this to mean "Stay on the trail. No bushwacking." This hike is written up in at least one Maui hiking guidebook, which we've taken as confirmation that it is legitimately allowed.
And, friends, bushwacking here could get you into big trouble. As the trail heads up along the edge of the ridge, there's just a thin wall of greenery to your right. A couple of feet off the trail there's a sheer drop, in places more than 100 feet. Please be careful and stay on the trail. Gaps in this green scrim give an unusual look at the Iao Needle, showing it more as a plate attached to the wall behind it and less like a solitary spire.
As the trail approaches the top of the ridge, you'll notice short, steep side trails to the left. These go up to the knife edge of the ridge, but there's an easier way than climbing up here. Wait until the terrain levels out, then start looking for a sharp switchback trail to the left. It'll take you back along the ridge with views off into the valley to your right and Wailuku and Kahului off in the distance.
To return, retrace your steps.
Remember that anytime you go off on a hike anywhere to use common sense. Ultimately, you are responsible for your own safety.
From journal Maui Hikes
by shepherd333
Shavertown, Pennsylvania
November 24, 2006
From journal Hawaiian Heaven
by cindylou11157
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
January 25, 2005
After you visit Needle Point, take the lower path to visit the gardens. This area is a very tranquil place with vegetation and the sound of a running stream. I was told that Ioa Valley was a sacred burial site for Hawaiian chiefs. The last documented burial was in the late 1700s.
This is a great place to visit with your family. There is no cost and it is only a short trip from South Maui or West Maui. I would plan on 2 hours total for this trip.
Hours of operation: 7am to 7pm
Cost is FREE.
From journal Maui on a Budget
by Ralamepl
New Iberia, Louisiana
June 21, 2003
From journal Maui
by lcampbell
Port Angeles, Washington
June 17, 2003
The granduer of the West Maui Mountains is not terribly accessible. One spot to get a closer look at the lush vertical walls and tumbling waterfalls is in the Iao Valley. The Iao Valley Road (also called Highway 32 turning into Highway 320) goes west for three miles out of the historic town of Wailuku.
Along the way, you will see the Tropical Gardens of Maui ($3 admission, children under 12 free, 9am-4:30pm Monday-Saturday), the Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens County Park, and the Hawaii Nature Center ($6 per adult, $3.50 children, 10am-4pm daily). I have not visited these spots, but they did look inviting. Tropical Gardens of Maui focuses on plants. The County Park has a picnic area on Iao Stream, a traditional Hawaiian hale (house), and an Asian garden with a carp pond. The Hawaii Nature Center is a non-profit center aimed at educating children about nature and culture. They also offer guided rainforest walks for $25.
In additon to these interesting stops, the scenery all along the way is breathtaking, with the best-for-last at the end of the road at Iao Needle State Park. Admission is FREE and the park is open 7am-7pm daily. This park is heavily visited, especially by the monster tour bus crowd, so I highly recommend to visit as early as possible in the morning.
The highlight of the park is Iao Needle, a 2250 foot pinnacle. The Needle is often shrouded in clouds of fog, making for interesting photos. There is a short paved trail that goes to a viewpoint, but better photos are from the bridge near the start of the trail. An additional short trails loop down along Iao Stream, which offers the best photos. This is also where I saw a REALLY inviting trail leading farther into the rainforest, unfortunately accompanied by a "No Trespassing" sign… bummer. There is also a small area planted with native plants such as taro, and an imu pit, used by local people for cooking (see my "How to Cook on an Imu" entry in this journal). Finally, also visible from the park is Puu Kukui, the highest spot in West Maui at 5788 feet, and also the wettest point.
From journal West Maui Cool Places
by BeAdventureous!
Little Rock,, Arkansas
June 26, 2001
From journal Marvelous Maui!
by Gwilym Owen
London, England
March 9, 2003
The main feature of this most sacred and historic of sites is the majestic Iao Needle, which lies at the end of the paved road.
Once used as a natural altar by native Kahunas (Priests), the towering 1,200-foot, basaltic, rich green carpet-covered pillar of rock has survived eons of water erosion to stand proud in this, one of the world's wettest places.
When you stand here looking at this peaceful park with its well-maintained trails and gardens, it's difficult to imagine that this great rock once bore silent witness to one of the most momentous events of Maui history. In 1790, King Kamehameha I, using Western weapons and tactics, trapped and annihilated the Maui army in the battle of Kepaniwai as part of his effort to unite the Hawaiian Islands -- it is said that the waters of the Iao Stream ran red with the blood of his enemies.
There are plenty of great walking trails here and good facilities. Remember to bring some water and mosquito repellant and try and make it here in the morning, when the peak of the Iao Needle is often obscured by clouds.
Other attractions along the road to the needle include the beautiful setting of the Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens, which is a picturesque park and picnic area frequented by the locals. Scattered around the park are model houses reflecting the various ethnic groups that came to the island, including a thatched Hawai'ian 'hale' (house) and examples of Portuguese, Japanese and American architecture.
Next to this is the Hawai'i Nature Centre, which also does hiking and other outdoor educational activities. Also here is the 'Iao Valley Interactive Science Arcade', an innovative museum that features games and displays about the islands' flora and fauna.
If you take your time, there is plenty to do in this wonderful Valley to take up a whole day . . .
From journal Maui No Ka Oi
by smmmarti guide
Lahaina, Hawaii
June 1, 2002
Driving through the downtown you will notice some distinctive municipal and historical buildings, the land trust, the library, and the Bailey museum. But the grand verdant mountain tops that frame the little town will likely beckon you beyond the town limits, down the winding two lane road that leads to the I`oa Needle state park.
Within minutes you will enter the pristine and peaceful valley that was the location of many a meaningful battle during the age of warring between the former Hawaiian kings. It was here that King Kamahameha overthrew the Maui king by hauling a cannon (stolen from a western ship) up the valley and annihalating the surprised Maui warriors. It is also here that ancient royals are buried in a cave, the exact location of which has been long since lost to history.
Regardless of the historical significance of the I`oa Valley, visitors will find a feast for the eyes; the I`oa Needle, the waterfalls that surge from the stream, the lush tropical foliage of this rain forest wonderland. There is also a little hiking trail here and an example of Hawaiian style taro gardens.
On your way back from the I`oa Needle, you may want to stop at the turnoff marked, "Museum." Japanese gardens and pagodas are set in a lovely park as a tribute to the culture and influence of the Japanese and Asian cultures that contributed so much to Hawaii's development.
Down the road toward town, a second museum sign points you toward the Bailey Museum. It was here that Edward Bailey and his family, teachers from Boston, lived and established a woman's Seminary. Recognizing the importance of education for native Hawaiians, governor of Maui, Hoapi'ili authorized the building of this seminary where young women were boarded and taught meaningful life skills. The small museum houses important artifacts and insights into the Hawaiian culture and has some of Maui's most amazing examples of ancient crafts such as outrageously beautiful feather and shell leis and calabash bowls. One of the only intact wood carvings of the half man-half pig of Hawaiian mythology is on display here.
Strolling around town I happened upon the lovely old theater where a performance of "Hot L Baltimore" was currently being stage by the Maui Theater company. Across the street, a farmer's market was in full swing. Pineapples the size of pumpkins ($2), brilliant tomatoes (3/$1), long beans, organic lettuces, perfect yellow/green papaya (2/$1) , were hawked by little Asian ladies who used hand signals to communicate. For a moment I became so absorbed in the scene that I forgot I was still in America!
It really is amazing what you encounter in Maui when you wander just a wee bit off the beaten path.
From journal Maui - Hikes and Upcountry Delights


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Youtube user "bobertbach" posted this 1989 film of the man online and wrote:
"This man ran a bike repair shop in the abandon NW corner of C & 7th in the late 80's. When he needed to straighten out a bike frame he would wait for a bus to stop across the street & stick it under its' tire. I can remember him arguing with a bus driver. He was eventually evicted by developers. It is currently Zum Schneider."
There's also a dog in the film, sleeping soundly on the hood of a car. Bobertbach writes, "The dog, 'Hank' was owned by actor Mark Boone Jr. who was a bartender at Vazaks in the mid to late 80's. It was stranger than paradise."
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving
click to enlarge
Actually, this is a scan from a 1955 Village Voice. So, unfortunately, you won't be able to feast at the Greenwich Village HoJo's tomorrow, nor at any of the other places mentioned here. They're all gone.
Maybe it's best to take the writer's advice: "the wisest thing is to go to a friend's home and get fractured."
-A look back at the HoJo's of Times Square, the history of the building that held it, and what's there now.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
Walker in the City visits Bleecker Street and the author responds to all those many Marc Jacobs stores: "I imagined myself, if I had a business, having three or four shops on one street with my name on them all and the thought embarrassed me." [WIC]
Avalon Bowery appears to emit "poison molecule," sends blogger into paroxysms of paranoid delusion. [Restless]
Brian Berger interviews Luc Sante about his new book. [WWIB]
Umm...what? "During his campaign for a third term, Mayor Bloomberg stifled a Freedom of Information Law request by withholding the release of photographs of himself with Sarah Palin until two weeks after the election, the Daily News reports." [Gothamist]
PJ Hanley's pub to move in next to the International Bar? [EVG]
"More Jane" Ts
I interviewed Mike last month after spotting his postcard in the Village and (offline) begged him to print up some t-shirts. I wasn't the only one--he received dozens of requests. Now you can own your very own "More Jane, Less Marc" shirt for just 20 bucks.
I suggest you wear it on Bleecker Street.
To order, e-mail Mike at his business, Stereotype Design, and specify your size: XS, S, M, L, or XL. (In a weird ironic twist, they're printed on American Apparel shirts--click here for size chart). Plus! If you order now, Mike will throw in a handful of "More Jane" postcards, so you can spread the love all over.
Monday, November 23, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
photo from my flickr
London looks for New York's lost edge--and I do my usual complaint to the folks across the pond. [LT]
Alex's "Then & Now" looks back at Ludlow and Cortlandt. [FP]
The vendors ousted from the 17th St. flea market have found a home at the Chelsea Antiques Garage. [CN]
Alligators in the sewers. [CR]
Enjoying the elegance of concrete arches. [FNY]
99X to close on once-doomed 10th Street. [EVG]
Take a walking tour with Lost City Brooks. [LC]
London Times
Here's what they put together from what I told them:
Among artists and writers there is a general sense of loss. Jeremiah Moss, who runs a blog called Vanishing New York, believes that the city has become not only sanitised but a sort of parody of what it once was. "I think the idea that New York is an edgy place has vanished almost entirely," he says. "It used to be immune to the tastes and sensibilities of middle-brow America. Now that has taken over completely. It's a nice town — safe and clean — for tourists and investment bankers. You used to come to New York to get away from Middle America, but now you show up here and there it is.
"Is New York still the centre of the Earth? Well, if your definition of the centre of the Earth is McDonald's and Starbucks, then yes it is."
New Yorkers such as Moss are particularly dismayed by some of the new architecture in the city. They don't like what has happened to Times Square, and the prevalence of "this very cold, sleek look made of glass with no exterior walls."
Many citizens are appalled by plans to rid the city of its newspaper vendors, one of its hallmarks. The newspaper shacks are to be replaced by glass and chrome pods, half owned by the Spanish corporation who will build them. The dividends from the commercials that will appear on the side of these pods will be divided between the city and the company.
Moss also points out "a weird trend in New York for making a simulacrum of the original." As an example he mentions the cult punk bar CBGB, once the "home of underground rock", where Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads and The Ramones have all performed. The venue closed in 2006 and was eventually bought by the high-end men's fashion designer, John Varvatos, who turned it into a boutique.
"He's kept a lot of the original interior, so you feel like you're walking into a rock 'n' roll space," Moss says. "But actually you're walking into a super high-end boutique that sells $700 Ramones T-shirts."
It was eventually announced that the alley behind the club would be converted into a pedestrian mall, a step that provoked Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys to tell the New York Post that "all of Manhattan has lost its soul to money lords".
Chelsea Guitars
They are moving into the much smaller sliver of a room that once belonged to the Balabanis tailor shop. The Balabanis moved out last year. The tailor shop has sat empty and gated since then.
As you can see from the (below) photo I took in 2007, it's a tight space. And while I'm happy to hear that Chelsea Guitars is remaining in the Chelsea--something of a miracle--I worry about how owner Dan Courtenay is going to cram all of his gorgeous guitars, taxidermied animals, rubber sharks, paintings, and assorted music memorabilia into the new space, and what losing those big display windows will do to business--not to mention where the sign will go, with its iconic painting of God Himself handing a guitar down from the clouds.
I guess, if this goes like every other recent Chelsea Hotel eviction, after the move, the old guitar shop will sit empty and gated, maybe hosting a temporary art installation now and then, until a bank decides to move in. Or a cupcake bakery.
Or a frozen yogurt joint.
Or a Duane Reade.
Or a high-end burger joint.
Or a Subway.
Or an Artichoke gastropizzeria.
Or an artisanal chocolatier.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Westsider Books
Long and narrow, with high ceilings, Westsider is packed to the rafters with used books. The shelves are stacked 15 levels tall. Ask for a title you can't find and the knowledgeable shopkeeper will mount a tall rolling ladder to retrieve it.
view from the second level
Not only are the books packed high, they're also packed deep--two levels deep. If the book you're looking for doesn't come down from the heights, the shopkeeper will dig behind the first layer of volumes, pulling out handfuls at a time, to find your quarry in the depths.
It's the sort of place where you can lose yourself.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
Colum McCann's novel of '70s NYC wins National Book Award. [NYT]
Alex's "Then & Now" revisits Soho. [FP]
On the Bowery with Metropolis, the Cooper Square Hotel "appears to be a cartoon illustrating the evils of overdevelopment." [EVG]
Drinking at the Nancy Whiskey bar. [COS]
Someone doesn't like the proliferation of Mr. Brainwash wheatpastes in Meatpacking:
HuffPo catches up on the McDonald's mod redesign in Chelsea. Says a Mickey D's spokeswoman, "People are using our restaurants differently today than they did five, 10, 20 years ago. People are multitasking, doing more on a given day... You want to be able to open your laptop, log on and get some work done while you're eating." [HP]
A quick look at the city's vanishing Hallmark stores. [ENY]
A virtual tugboat appears with a ghost sign on Berry St. [NYS]
Future of Books
As a blogger who spends too much time on the Web, I've noticed my own ability to focus on a book has become impaired. My brain is changing. And so is yours.
smartphones: 3, books: 1
The Autumn 2009 issue of the Wilson Quarterly looks at The Future of the Book. Among a series of articles, including one about "Your Brain on the Web," Christine Rosen, senior editor of The New Atlantis: Journal of Technology and Society, offers an excellent essay called "In the Beginning Was the Word." She writes about how abridgment, beginning with Reader's Digest and ending (so far) with blogs and tweets, has contributed to the demise of depth reading--and, ultimately, human empathy.
So, at risk of doing exactly what Rosen warns us against, I'm going to highlight a few quotes from the article, self-consciously abridging it in blog style. Since the article is not available online, I hope it will inspire you to seek out the magazine to read the whole thing.
"Our screen-intensive culture poses three challenges to traditional reading: distraction, consumerism, and attention-seeking behavior."
"We live in a world of continuous partial attention, one that prizes speed and brandishes the false promise of multi-tasking as a solution to our time management challenges. The image-driven world of the screen dominates our attention at the same time that it contributes to a kind of experience pollution that is challenging our ability to engage with the printed word."
"With the purchase of a traditional book, your consumer relationship ends when you walk out of the bookstore. With a wirelessly connected Kindle or iPhone, or your Wi-Fi-enabled computer, you exist in a perpetual state of potential consumerism."
"the transition from print reading to screen reading has increased our reliance on images and led to a form of 'social narcissism.'"
"[The] concern--that a culture that craves the image will eventually find itself mired in solipsism and satisfied by secondhand experiences--has been borne out. We follow the Twitter feeds of protesting Iranians and watch video of Michael Jackson's funeral and feel connected to the rest of the world, even though we lack context for that feeling and don't make much effort to achieve it beyond logging on. The screen offers us the illusion of participation, and this illusion is becoming our preference. As Boorstin observed, 'Every day seeing there and hearing there takes the place of being there.'"
You can read the rest of this essay by buying this issue through the Wilson Quarterly website, or finding it in your local indie bookshop.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
Grieve gets some graffiti love. [EVG]
Coop hotel revelers party under Homer Simpson's mug. [NMNL]
Lou Reed will be at NYPL 12/8. [Stupefaction]
92Y Tribeca brings you back to NYC in the 70s--in film. [BB]
Enter the Jazz Loft. [P&W]
On the Train
The other night, while riding the subway, I sat across from a man and a woman. They were strangers to me and to each other.
The man was double-fisting electronic gadgets--a Blackberry in one hand and an iPod in the other--tapping and scrolling without cease.
The woman was reading a paperback novel--Wuthering Heights.
I read Wuthering Heights in high school.
Looking at the woman, I had some idea of what was in her head: shadowy moors, a damp Yorkshire manor, the thwarted passions of Heathcliff and Cathy. I felt connected to her in our semi-shared experience.
I remembered being 16 years old and what that felt like, when I learned the word "misanthropist" from an elderly, blue-haired teacher who repeated, again and again, "Heathcliff is what you call a real misanthropist." Later, I discovered that "misanthropist" is not a word, and that the proper word is "misanthrope." But either way, the meaning is the same: A general dislike for humanity, often originating in feelings of social alienation.
Which is what I felt when I looked at the man with the gadgets. He fingered and clicked, flicked his eyes back and forth, up and down. I felt anxious when I looked at the man. I felt disconnected and alienated.
Overhead, among the subway advertisements, a poster displayed the first sentence from Kafka's Metamorphosis: "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous bug."
Kafka's novella has often been said to be about dehumanizing alienation in the face of modernity, in the onslaught of new technologies ushered in by the Industrial Revolution.
So there it was, that opening line, on a subway car in 2009, over a pair of strangers--one with her mind in a Victorian novel printed on paper, the other with his brain ping-ponging between the two poles of a postmodern technological couple.
Today, maybe we all feel a bit buggy.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
"The old, weird LES" still lives at the Mr. Lower East Side pageant. [Interview] & [Voice]
11/19: Closing party for Leee Black Childers' photographs of NYC "Drag Queens and Rent Boys," at Subdivision Art.
Meet Kenneth of Bedford. [NYS]
The Biography Bookshop has opened a new location, further east on Bleecker and under the new name "bookbook."
Bookbook is open for business and Independent Bookstore Week is a great time to make a visit to check them out. The new space is bigger than the last, bright and airy and filled with books. And, as in the old space, they've still got plenty of cheap remainders for sale on carts outside.
For a brief time, bookbook coexists with the old Biography. But not for long. In January the old location closes and turns into a Marc Jacobs store, which may or may not sell books.
Monday, November 16, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
More photo-tacular "Then & Now" from Alex in NYC. [FP]
Check out "Only in New York," photos of the city at MCNY. [Stupefaction]
Brian Berger interviews Jonathan Lethem on Chronic City. [WWIB]
Old and new side by side on W. 23rd, as the glassy "Modern23" abuts a classic:
City landlords have begun banning cigarette smoking in your own apartment--new tenants "must sign an agreement promising not to smoke inside their homes." [Gothamist]
Is Trump Soho going into foreclosure? [Curbed]
Blood on the streets of Alphabet City. [NMNL]
View the life cycle of Eldridge Street. [BB]
The EV Pizza Shop has closed due to high rent. [EVG]
Buy Some Books
Just in time, stomping on the grave of The Book, Union Square's Barnes & Noble has removed a big section of books by the front doors and replaced them with this Nook display:
The "Nook" is B&N's answer to the Kindle, the other book killer on the market. What makes the Nook so special? You can get designer covers for it by Kate Spade, Jack Spade, and Jonathan Adler. This aspect makes the Nook especially appealing to people who shop on the New Bleecker Street, and to the Sex & the City crowd, who will no doubt clamor for the Kate Spade "Jane Street" cover in hot pink.
In the marketing photo below, the glasses seem to signify, "Hey, just because you like hot pink stuff doesn't mean you're a dummy." The embossed text on the cover reads, "She kept her nose in a book," while on the back it's "and her head in the clouds." Which says to me, "Hey, you're a bookish dreamer, Baby! You're still a little girl at heart and what's wrong with that? Now, let's download the latest digital offering from Candace Bushnell and get that faux-Golightly feeling all over."
Whether or not these are attractive covers is not the point. The point is: The Nook is not a book, and if you stick your nose into it, it won't feel much different than an iPhone or a laptop.
As Nooks, Kindles, and iPhones take over our attentions, we lose our ability to read in depth (you are scanning this screen right now), actual books will be relegated to props in trendy bar windows and condo lounges, while bookstores--including Barnes & Noble--will vanish. Our minds and our lives will be more impoverished for it.
Until that "Book-apocalypse" day comes, go visit an indie and buy their books--before it's too late. Here's IBNYC's extensive list of indie bookshops in the city. I have definitely not visited all of them. Those that I have visited, and covered here, you can find at the following links:
Friday, November 13, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
Digital billboard at Hudson and Canal "an absolute menace," especially for "the ferocious manner in which the light blasts forth from what seems to be the heavens of the Lord himself." [NYCB]
Theatre 80 announces its first film screening in years with "Brooklyn Heist." [EVG]
Former Barnes & Noble on 6th Ave to become Trader Joe's. One big box becomes another. [Curbed]
Walking about Wallabout. [ENY]
"Community Board 3 continues to lead the city in the number of 311 Police Department commercial noise complaints — centered around nightlife activities. It is also the number one complaint to the community board." [Villager]
New David's
Yesterday, the paper came off the windows to reveal--it's still David's Shoe Store.
The place is bigger and brighter inside, with a fresh paint job, but the big shoe-repair machines are in the back, wooden shoe lasts are hanging on the wall, and there's no fro-yo in sight. Also, the 1940s Cat's Paw lady is still stuck on the window with David's hand-painted signage. Let's hope she stays, too.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
After I announced the Decapitator's treasure-hunt yesterday, readers and bloggers hustled to find the altered magazines. The Voice got one. So did Tokion. After a couple of tries, I managed to score one of my own. It's way better than an Easter egg. Did anyone else find one?
For bachelors who came to NYC seeking, as one actually said, "this sort of 'Sex and the City' lifestyle," life has gotten rather hard. [NYT]
Some unemployeds just can't stop spending hundreds a month on Starbucks and mani-pedis. [Gothamist]
Antique footwear discovered in Orchard demolition. [BB]
Enjoying the pleasures, and pains, of urban window peeping. [NYT]
Bloomberg buys Sitt's Coney--now what? [NYT]
A cabinet of curiosities at Coney Island. [ATZ]
Hello kitty. [EVG]
So many chains, so many new signs. The Chase at 8th and 2nd got a big one. Best Buy in Union Square got one. The 7/11 on 14th got one. You've got to cherish these authentic New York moments...
I asked Anna, who grew up in Manhattan throughout the 80s and 90s, what she will miss the most of the things disappearing from the city. She mentioned chalk drawings on the street, seeing garment workers at their sewing machines from her bedroom window, and the nondescript businesses that have vanished.
As for a list of the top few, she writes the following:
Here are a few of the things that I'd like my future self to remember--objects that are either fading or don't exist. They made up the landscape of a city that wasn't necessarily better or worse...it just was a city that felt a little more like it was mine.
They stood tall on many a city block for decades. Quite a few remain, but today they are an example of an obsolete object that continues to exist only because it can be used for ad space. Pay phones give the ads an air of purpose; otherwise, they'd just be stand-alone billboards conspicuously demanding our attention like signs on the side of the highway.
With cell phones as omnipresent as they are, few people today ever have a need to use a pay phone. There's no denying that cell phones are more convenient (when they're charged, at least), but I'd argue that they pull us out of the world: we become so engrossed in our phone conversations that we are constantly bumping into people or talking so loudly in public that everyone else avoids us. Pay phones were more communal; each one could be a set for a million dramas a day. I remember which one I was at when I learned of my nephew's birth (57th and 5th street) or the one where, at 19, I called the first guy who ever broke my heart and cried into the phone (inside Reebok Sports Club on the Upper West Side). Surprisingly, this didn't win him back.
Today, we can fit all of Proust--translated into thirty languages, no less--on a flash drive the size of my fingernail. Pretty amazing. Also amazing: the way that the White Pages contained the name of every single person in New York! Or at least, almost. Even amazing-er? There were pages and pages of people named Grossman. Also, Lipschitz.
Not only were all these people located in one book, but also, all these people most likely owned the book as well. If you said, "I'm in the book," everyone knew what you meant. I few times as a kid, I recall calling the guy who was last in the phone book. His name was Zelmo Zzzzzip, and his answering machine said, "Hello, this is Zelmo."
While researching Obsolete, I tracked down Mr. Zzzzzip, whose real name is Ed Saxon. Saxon also had the pseudonym Aaron A-aaaba, and apparently he and another A-lover silently fought year after year, adding extra A's to their names and then hoping they were first when the book fell on their doorsteps. He set up the Zelmo answering machine just because he thought it'd be funny to listen to the messages from dumb kids like me! Now, Saxon lives in LA...and he told me he hadn't used a phone book in years.
Tokens were fazed out a few years ago; on some turnstiles you can see where the coin slot was patched over. Tokens were straight-forward objects. If you had a token on you, you had a token on you. If you didn't, you didn't. Today, I'm constantly thinking I have subway or bus fare only to find that my card has just $0.43 or some weird amount on it. Tokens didn't fool around like that. You either had a whole one or you had none at all. The first token I remember using had a big Y on it. Actually, it said NYC, but the Y was the letter that took center stage. In 1986 they introduced one that looked like a bull's eye with a magnetic, pearly center. I used to pop out the middle using a nail and a hammer and then would turn them into necklaces. Lastly there were small silver ones with pentagons cut out of their centers. When MetroCards were introduced, they were blue with yellow writing. I keep thinking this yellow card thing is just a fad.
We're a rather literary city. A few writers have lived here. Did you know Shakespeare was actually a New Yorker? We're also a busy city. Your average New Yorker, however, used to know that he'd get to read at least two words a day: Walk and Don't Walk. When, about ten years ago, they replaced these signs with the little walking man and the huge red hand (I say "huge" because it's the same size as the man), I felt that our intelligence was insulted. Made our corners look like every other city's. Their little LED bulbs just don't have the same grit as the back-lit signs used to have. Now, some of them are even equipped with timers: apparently, we are slow in addition to being illiterate. But you know, whatever: New York pedestrians have no fear. Traffic signs are for sissies.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Decapitator
photos from my flickr
In June, Environmental Graffiti wrote, "Kissing couples, beautiful models and aspiring celebs have all come under 'the East London decapitator's' knife; their beautiful heads replaced by bony, blood drenched stumps. His artworks are defined by the media as culture jamming or sub-vertising, which Wikipedia describes as, 'the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make a statement.'"
In these photos taken on 23rd Street in Chelsea, the Decapitator has claimed the head of Shakira. Looking at a nearby original, pre-decapitation, you can see how the Decapitator has meticulously prepared a perfect puzzle piece that fits the shoulders and removes the entire head, adding vivid blood spatter to the title text.
Now, the Decapitator steps up his/her game with a special issue of this bloody Rolling Stone, planted at Barnes & Noble in Union Square.
Wired compares the graffiti to the works of Ron English and The Splasher. It's an exciting innovation in culture jamming.
However, as Words & Pictures noted, the Decapitator "targets women over men by a five to one ratio." They wonder if the graffiti artist is a "Psycho who hates women or activist stickin' it to the Man?"
An unsettling thought. What do you think? Take a look at the entire oeuvre on the Decapitator's Flickr page--and don't miss the masterpiece in which Carrie Bradshaw carries her own head, Medusa-style, in a Sex & the City billboard.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
from my flickr
The Starlite Lounge, Brooklyn's oldest gay bar--and maybe the city's first black-owned gay bar--is on the chopping block, thanks to a new landlord. [Gothamist]
The District, the condo that provided a "pretend life," gets even more pretendy as they host Victoria's Secret Angel Bootcamp. [EVG]
The Slum Goddess goes for a swing on Spidey's magic ride. [NMNL]
Yuppie Overlords called out on the Bowery. [BB]
Bellevue's psych hospital retains its spooky charms. [GVDP]
Carpets removed from StuyTown's elevators, thanks to poop-shoed college kids: Says one maintenance man, "The last time I checked dogs didn't wear New Balance sneakers when they stomped their feces into a rug." [STLL]
Lenox Lounge is 70
photos from my flickr
Opened in 1939, the Lenox Lounge was, according to its website, "the back drop for many jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. The Jazz Club also known as the Zebra Room was once used by the Harlem Renaissance writes James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. It was also said to be a hangout for Malcolm X."
After a downturn, it was restored in 1999. Said owner Alvin Reed at the time, ''I'm a person of the past; I love the past. When I first took over, I had some people who didn't really appreciate the decor of the place. They were like, 'Oh we're glad it's a new owner. Now you can modernize this place.'" Thankfully, he didn't.
Today the Lenox Lounge retains its Art-Deco splendor. The floor is tiled, the ceiling is leather, the Zebra Room in back is still upholstered in zebra skin. The highly decorated bathroom doors are designated for "Ladies" and "Gents."
In the middle of the day, the Lenox Lounge feels like a comfy, gorgeous dive--in the best sense of the word--a neighborhood bar, nothing fancy. Old-timers sit at the bar's corner, where old-timers always seem to sit. You can find these same men in black-and-white photos on the wall, back in the days when they played in the Zebra Room.
The only reminder that it's 2009 and not 1939 are the flatscreen TVs, showing some sort of ballgame about which the friendly barmaid will be shouting over fumbles or home runs. And don't be surprised when someone buys you a drink for no other reason than they felt like it. It's that kind of place.
Monday, November 9, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
The Bowery gets a flea market with "t-shirt stalls, vintage clothing stands, and soapmongers." [Racked]
New outpost for indie Book Culture on the UWS. [Racked]
Totonno's prepares to re-open. "This is New York," said the owner. "Some things shouldn't change." [NYM]
This block-by-block map of the mayoral election is a fun time. Good to see the East Village and Lower East Side voted against Bloomberg--a blue oasis in a red sea! [NYT]
Overzealous Yankee fan Wall Streeters tossed confidential documents out their windows during the parade, including pay stubs, personal financial information, and "a balance sheet of someone's trust fund showing $300,000 in stock." [ESPN]
More reason to worry about the wonderful Nom Wah Tea Parlor of Doyers St. [BB]
Go mad for 14th St. [FNY]
A trip to the top of Colonnade Row. [NYT]
Mugging renews fears that Central Park is unsafe after dark. [Gothamist]
Even smokestacks have to be pretty. [EVG]
Friday, November 6, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
Also, the New Museum Store sells this item--"as a commentary and memorial to Ramone's disappearing punk rock counterculture." It sells for $250:
Art D'Lugoff, Village royalty, dead at 85. [VV]
Just finished reading Paul Auster's new novel, Invisible. Highly recommend it. Here's an interview with the author at HuffPo.
Wall Street bankers get the swine flu vaccine before the city's poor schlubs. [Gothamist]
Mars Bar bankers get vandalized. [EVG]
Taking a long walk across the city with a waitress from Greenpoint. [NYT]
How Rev. Billy almost, sort of, became the mayor. [LM]
City Pianos
Thursday, November 5, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
"The Vanishing City," the documentary, screens tomorrow night. Check it out! [VC]
"Biggus Buckus," the imperial Bloomberg: "New Yorkers know...that we're bought and paid for. We know that there is something unseemly, even humiliating, about submitting ourselves to be ruled by the richest man in town." [NYer]
Enjoy King Con Brooklyn, a fest for Brooklyn comic book artists and more. [McB]
More exhibitionistic bathing on tap. [EVG]
Dig this classic "Gowanus Canal Song." Even in 1898 the smell was "horrid." [PMFA]
Bella's Luncheonette
From my stash of non-digital photos, these are the only shots I ever took of Bella's, both from the exterior.
The ghost of the HOME COOKING sign remains today, but the rest is gone. "Drink Coca-Cola" and "BELLAS COFFEE SHOP" have vanished.
I wish I had pictures of the interior. I remember a counter with swivel stools and a clock on the wall that advertised St. Joseph aspirin.
I remember sitting at the window eating a cheeseburger after walking back from the 1996 Yankees victory parade and seeing Jim Jarmusch walk by--an event which was, in some ways, more exciting than the Yankees parade.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
"Bloomberg represented this development gone wild... That seemed like a great idea when times were flush." [NYT]
1980s style (like everything else these days): "sanitized for your reconsumption." [NYT]
Young New Yorkers using texts to find sex: "The atmosphere is fluid, like an eBay auction. This leads to a series of marketing strategies... If you have several options perpetually before you, and if technology makes it easier to jump from one option to another, you will naturally adopt the mentality of a comparison shopper." [NYT]
from my flickr
Alert: That "free" chair you found on the street just might be cyber-stalking you. [Curbed]
The East Village "was nothing before Le Souk arrived." [EVG]
Independent merchants not doing well at new Yankee Stadium, "I think what they're trying to do is force everybody else out." [NYT]
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
*Everyday Chatter
It's not Drew Barrymore, but someone very naked got up on the bar at Mars Bar recently. [SG]
As Guss' Pickles moves to Brooklyn, kimchi readies to move in. [BB]
In the recent past, the sight of a decorated Checker meant free rides for everyone from Taxi Ray. Today, it means free rides for customers of HSBC Bank only. Because, you know, New York's got "different values" now:
The battle of St. Saviour's continues. [QC]
Tribute for Snoopy. [EVG]
New High Line design is breaking ankles. [Gothamist]
The Coney Island polar bears have officially plunged. [ATZ]


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DNA sequencing device of the size of a USB memory stick
Published: February 18, 2012 at 6:37 am
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., a biotechnological company in UK, has revealed the small DNA strand sequencer dubbed "MinION". This small device is of the size of a USB memory stick and can be plugged into a laptop or a desktop computer to sequence the genes or DNA.
The company has integrated the novel nanopores "strand sequencing" techniques into this small device in order to get "ultra long read length single molecule sequence data" with considerable accuracy through GridION platform developed by the company. Read length is the amount of DNA readable at a time.
"The exquisite science behind nanopore sensing has taken nearly two decades to reach this point; a truly disruptive single molecule analysis technique, designed alongside new electronics to be a universal sequencing system. GridION and MinION are poised to deliver a completely new range of benefits to researchers and clinicians," said Dr Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore.
GridION platform has scalable instruments i.e. nodes with consumable cartridges having array chips for multi-nanopore sensing. These nodes and cartridges can deliver tens of GBs of sequencing data per 24 hours depending on the experiment and the user's need to run the device for minutes or days.
MinION is a disposable device with a sensor chip, ASIC and the fluidics system important to do a complete single molecule sensing experiment. This device can perform DNA and genome sequencing, and protein sensing and other nanopore sensing. It would be available this year at $900.
(Image Credit: Oxford Nanopore Technologies)


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