Guam - If you have an old car Dell JD605  battery that needs proper disposing, you're in luck.  Don't discard it in the dump where the toxic chemicals can seep into our land and pollute the water - rather drop off your dead or unused batteries at Atkins Kroll in Tamuning during regular office hours.

But if you can't get away from the office, next month AC Delco is starting their fourth round of free car  Dell Inspiron XPS M1710 battery recycling at your village mayor's office every Saturday from 8-11am from September through November.

Arnold Sikat is AC Delco's parts and service manager, and tells KUAM News, "What we normally do is every Saturday one of my guys will be standing around in the village mayor's office and people just bring their old batteries, we can go ahead and dispose of it for them."

In addition to the Going Green campaign at the mayor's offices, AC Delco has also set up Sony VGP-BPL2C battery deposits on both military bases, making responsible recycling accessible to the entire community.  "It's actually important because the contents of the      IBM ThinkPad T42P Battery   has acid on it and it has lead on it, so we need to make sure it's properly disposed of.  We are very fortunate that AC Delco is disposing it for us for free, what we normally do is we need to accumulate ten pallets of these old batteries and we ship it off to them and they take care of it for us," said Sikat.

Each pallet has about 100 old batteries, bringing the total of a single shipment to just over 1,000 deposited batteries weighing over 42,000 pounds.  But despite green efforts such as these, many toxic Acer AS09B56 Battery continue to be treated as trash.  Sikat encourages the public to bring their Toshiba PA3732U-1BAS Battery  to AC Delco even if it's not AC Delco brand, as every little bit helps.

Once the pallets are full they make the long journey to California, where that branch recycles the toxic lead that would otherwise be polluting our island.  Added Siklat, "We'd like to thank the public for always patronizing the AC Delco products and this is our way to give back to them, on making sure that we keep Guam clean."

Just think - something as simple as dropping off an old car Asus A42-M2 Battery  can help aid the overall health of our island.

    In just a few months, Apple's iPad has established that there is indeed a consumer market for a multitouch tablet computer.

The 1.5-pound slate with a 10-inch screen has already sold more than 3 million units, even though it costs $499 for the cheapest model, surprising many analysts. And Apple  A1189  says over 20,000 third-party apps have been written especially for the iPad's large screen and features, in addition to the more than 200,000 iPhone apps it can also run.As a result, other companies, big and small, are racing to produce multitouch tablets that go beyond the narrow functions of e-readers such as Amazon's Kindle. Like the iPad, they are meant for a wide variety of uses, including Web surfing, social networking, email, games, productivity, navigation, book reading, and playing music and videos. And, like the iPad, they will pose a threat to the primacy of the laptop for portable computing, and especially to the  ThinkPad X200  smallest laptops, the netbooks.

This week, a second big computer company, Dell, is joining the new tablet war in the U.S. But Dell's  Inspiron 1210  first offering in the category, called the Streak—first introduced in the U.K.—is very different from the iPad, and somewhat peculiar. It's much smaller—with just a 5-inch screen—and makes cellular voice calls, something the iPad can't do.

It is really a tweener device, a design compromise. Depending on how you use it, the Streak can be considered a giant smartphone or a minitablet. Dell Inspiron 510m  is positioning it as a tablet, but, to me, it's more of a very large smartphone, but one that, for many, will be too large to carry around comfortably.Depending on how you buy it, the Streak can cost either less or more than the base $499 iPad. It goes on sale Aug. 13 at $300 if you sign up for a new two-year AT&T  contract, which must include a data plan. (The cheapest iPad with cellular data connectivity is $629.) Or, you can get a Streak for $550 without an AT&T contract. Dell says neither U.S. version can be used with any other phone carrier, though the $550 model can be used as a Wi-Fi-only device, just like the $499 iPad.

The Streak will be available only through Dell's website, not at any stores, not even AT&T's.

The Streak runs on Google's Android operating system, and has access to the 70,000 or so third-party apps available in the Android Market app store. But I couldn't find, and Dell Inspiron 6000  couldn't identify, any apps written especially for its larger screen. In fact, a few Android apps I tested seemed to crowd all their icons into just a portion of the Streak's screen, especially when the device was held vertically, leaving lots of white space.

The Streak's 5-inch screen is much larger than the iPhone's 3.5-inch display, or the 3.2-inch screen on the new SQU-721 BlackBerry Torch. But it didn't feel radically larger to me than the 4.3-inch display on some of the newer Android smartphones, such as the HTC EVO, which, while bulky for a phone, is still much easier to fit in a pocket than the Streak is.

The Streak is a long, skinny device. It's 6 inches long and 3.11 inches wide, about a fourth the footprint of the iPad, which isn't meant to go in a pocket, but considerably longer and somewhat wider than the EVO, which is. It's much lighter than the iPad, at just under half a pound, but heavier than many  FPCBP118AP  smartphones.In my tests, I found I could carry the Streak comfortably in the pocket of loose jeans, or in a suit jacket's inner pocket, but not in a shirt pocket or the pocket of more fitted pants. It would take up a lot of room in a small or medium-size woman's handbag. And it looks somewhat ridiculous when held up to the ear to make a phone call.

And, despite the larger physical size of the Streak's display, its screen resolution, which governs sharpness and how much content can fit on a screen, is lower than even the iPhone 4's much smaller screen, and is too low to display high-resolution video (though an optional dock can output hi-res video to a TV.)

Also, the Streak comes with the outdated 1.6 version of Android, though Dell Inspiron 640m  says it will eventually be upgradeable to the latest edition.

In my tests, the Streak delivered both moments of pleasure and moments of frustration. When held horizontally, the screen felt luxurious, with lots of room, and good sharpness and color, for playing video or viewing photos. Even in portrait mode, reading books using the Amazon Kindle app was a much better experience than on any smartphone I've tested, though not nearly as good as on the iPad or Kindle e-reader.

The screen also holds plenty of app icons and more large widgets than other  FPCBP105AP  Android phones I've tested. And there are convenient bars at the top for quickly checking notifications, adjusting wireless settings, managing screens and accessing apps that aren't on the main screens.

The Streak also has generous memory for an Android phone. It comes with 19 gigabytes of total memory, including a removable 16 gigabyte memory card. Two gigabytes of the internal memory can be used to store apps—excellent for an   FPCBP104AP   Android phone, but much less than on the iPad.

Its 5-megapixel rear camera took sharp photos and fair videos, and phone calls sounded clear. The large screen was a big plus for Google's free voice-prompted navigation app. FPCBP160AP Battery life was very good, easily lasting a full day, and the battery is removable.

But the Streak also crashed on me several times. On one occasion, it started vibrating endlessly, only stopping when I removed and replaced the   FPCBP159AP battery.

The device has a front-facing camera—unlike the iPad, which has no camera at all. But video calling isn't integrated, unlike on the new iPhone, and requires you to sign up for a third-party service.

Twice the device proclaimed it couldn't find the memory card and had to be restarted before it could. Twice, the YouTube app failed to load any content.

Also, the buttons on the top edge for turning the Streak on and off and for taking pictures are very close together and easily confused for each other. And the PA3291U-1BAS  camera button eventually stopped working for me altogether. The speaker, located on the back, sounded tinny when playing music. And it was too easy to block the rear camera with a thumb or finger when holding the Streak naturally.

Dell sees the Streak as a tablet first, with phone calling as a secondary function. It may well appeal to people for whom the iPad is too large to carry around, yet want some of the tablet experience coupled with a phone. But tweener PA3307U-1BAS  devices can be hard to love and Streak buyers will have to overlook some of the shortcomings I encountered.

You may have a very high-end laptop with lots of RAM, latest processor chip and an extremely powerful graphics card but still the battery inside your laptop computer or Tablet PC remains the weakest link – the average  PA3399U-1BAS  battery life is anywhere between three and four hours for most notebook models.

Whether we are traveling on the road or waiting in the airport lounge or taking a long flight (where there are no power plugs to recharge the  PA3399U-2BAS  battery), our most common wish is that the laptop battery should last as long as possible so that we remain connected, informed and productive.

Here are some simple yet effective tips that will help you extract the maximum juice out of your laptop batter per charge (though nothing substitutes carrying a spare full-charged  PA3400U-1BAS  battery):

Dim the Bright LCD Screen – Turn down the brightness level of your laptop screen to the lowest value possible. Similarly, lower the screen resolution and color depth as they again put stress on the display card and therefore consume additional power of your   PA3420U-1BAS  battery.

Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Scanning – If you are using the laptop for offline work, like composing emails or giving final touches to that PowerPoint presentation, there’s no point checking for Wi-Fi network in your area when you are not going to use it anyway. Most  PA3420U-1BAS   laptops have shortcut keys to instantly disable wireless networking.

Disable Background Processes – You could have several maintenance related processes running on your PA3431U-1BAS  hard-drive which can be turned off temporarily. Examples include the desktop search software that’s configured to index new files on the fly or any IM clients sitting in the system tray or any scheduled tasks that auto-run at pre-defined intervals.

Defragment the  PA3442U-1BRS Hard Disk – Defragmenting will try to put all the piece of a file in a sequence so it will take less effort to see a file. You may notice a marginal jump in computing speed after defragmentation plus it also helps in extending the very precious life of your battery.

Turn off the Auto-save document feature of Microsoft Office and other applications. Programs that are run from a CD or DVD can be copied to and run from the hard drive, which   PA3431U-1BRS  typically consumes less power than an optical drive.

Also remember to fully charge a new battery pack before carrying it with you on an important business trip. New  PA3444U-1BAS  batteries should be fully charged and discharged a few times before they work to their maximum capacity.

Laptop batteries are notorious for dying out and losing charge quickly. If you treat your battery with the utmost care, you'll have success in getting the most out of it. Know what type of Presario B1200  battery you have and understand how it needs to be treated in order to perform. But first make sure you charge your laptop battery properly when using it for the first time.

      Know Your Battery
   1. Most laptops today are equipped with Lithium Ion batteries, but older models may run off a Nickel Metal Hydride or Nickel Cadmium Pavilion DV5  battery. It's essential that you learn your model's specifications so you can follow the correct usage practices. This is the only way you'll be able to achieve maximum battery power.
      First Time Charging
   2. The amount of time it takes for your battery to fully charge depends on many factors, like your Compaq Presario R3000 battery   type and operating system. Many newer laptops will charge in 15 to 20 minutes, while others can take a few hours.

      When you're charging your battery for the first time, charge it fully before using your laptop. You may have to go through a battery cycle a couple times before your  Inspiron Mini 12 battery begins performing at its maximum capability. To do this, charge your battery fully, let it discharge to about five percent, and then fully charge it again.
      Battery Maintenance
   3. Charging your battery for the first time is just the beginning. You must give your laptop battery the utmost attention if you want to get the best out of it.

      Never let your battery stay connected to a power source once it's fully charged. This leaves the battery in a constant state of charging up, ultimately reducing its life cycle. Once your Dell studio 1737 battery   is charged, unplug your laptop's AC adapter, or remove the battery.

      When you're storing a battery, expect it to naturally discharge itself about 10 to 15 percent over a four-month period. It's best to fully charge your battery before storage. When you are storing your battery, you should plug it into your laptop every month or so and let it discharge and charge back up a little. Make sure you fully discharge and charge your Fujitsu FPCBP145 battery every three or four months.
      Maximizing Battery Performance
   4. There are several tips to preserving your battery life and achieving its maximum performance. One simple thing users can do is turn down the brightness of their screen as low as possible. Another option is to check your ThinkPad X200s battery performance tool installed on your computer. This will allow you to control exactly how you want your battery's power to be used.

      When you're using your laptop, try not to run many programs at once. This will kill your ThinkPad Z60T battery life quickly, and also try to close down any programs that you aren't using at the moment. Go into your computer's settings and adjust features like screen savers, sleep/hibernate mode and auto-save functions to suit your desire.