Monday, January 21, 2013

iPhone color conversions

                
           If you own a black or white iPhone then I want you to know that you can change the colors on your device such as a black phone with a white back or complete color conversions which change the bezel entirely and the front. Please be advised you are doing all modifications at your own risk as I'm not in any way shape or form responsible for what you do. The best thing I recommend getting is a pentalobe screw driver and few very small screw drivers which all can be found on Amazon.com. You can use this if you bought a used device pretty cheap and it has gone through everything then you can change out everything cosmetic on it and make it brand new including the bezel of which holds all of the radios such as Wi-Fi and bluetooth so be careful.

WMATA Bus routes


                                                Now as the our cities become more crowded with more people and all of those people all trying to get something done wether that is productive or just for fun WMATA has a bus route for you to speed up your commute. Wether if you are new to buses or to train the bus system does help as for certain destinations such as Georgetown which cannot be reached by train you can ride the D6 and get off at Georgetown or continue to Sibley hospital. Some destinations can only be reached by bus such as Mount Rainier but if you ride the train often or you just got off the train try catching to as it is free with your SmartTrip card but this is only free from rail to bus transfer not bus to rail. However you want to be advised that certain busses only run is rush hour such as the 97 which is non rush our turns into the 96 which goes to Tenleytwon station and the 97 which goes to Union station.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

iOS 6 battery drain!?

After updating my iPhone 4 to iOs 6 I felt a noticeable drain in battery life basic tasks such as phone calls and text messages left me wondering why bother. iOs 6 is known is cause bugs on its devices but work arounds can be done however their is no official fix for battery life. A few things that I have done on my iPhone to save battery life like change applications syncing on iCloud so random syncing and data usage will decrease. Another fix is to remove the pod cast application from your device as this pesky application runs in the background and is far to buggy. Turn off location services as your GPS uses a lot of battery, terminate running applications from your recent apps menu and last remove applications from your notification center.

Friday, December 28, 2012

Any suggestions on next post?

       Now after fixing the Internet issues what should the next post be about?

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

WMATA Rush+

        During the summer WMATA has started their Rush+ rail service and thus Orange Line trains will go to Largo Town Center rather than New Carrolton. However Red line trains do NOT have Rush+ service but be in mind that if you do need to get to stations such as Shady Grove or anywhere always look at the train's destination rather than it's line. You will want to keep in mind that train operators will say if this is a Rush+ train at every stop or just final transfer points such as Stadium Armory. Not every train will be a Rush+ train and normal train service will still permit just trains will go to different destinations however the Yellow line may start at Greenbelt and go to Franconia-SpringField but will still use it's own tunnel. However if you use stations in between you will have must more frequent service and trains will move much faster. Leave a comment with any further questions.

Friday, December 14, 2012

WMATA Rail tips introduction

     Hello all as TheDougTechCrew stands I help to aid to technical community of their problems on their devices and now I will be introducing a new section to express some of the existing flaws in Metro Rail so as you travel you can ease off the pain when riding.
   
      One thing about Metro Rail is the signs can be wrong or express an incorrect statement like at Union Station (located on the Red Line) says that the Union shops are threw the solid concrete walls and another flaw is it shows that Amtrak Commuter trains are in the same direction as the Union Shops. As TheDougTechCrew I sincerely promise to post once a week on technology and once a week on Wmata news or tips.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

HTC Sence 4

      Ok I have used the HTC One X for over a month and it was very fast and audio quality was great and so was the battery life. With HTC's new "Sence" it has had tons of tweaks so the user exprience to make it more enjoyable.
 
     However here are the downsides or things that were rather annoying one thing is it seems that multitasking is disabled but a quick fix is to root the phone and install something that can manage the mines and change to something less aggressive like 22 24 30. Now I have a HTC One V as my primary device and noticed that sometimes the phone can stutter a tad bit when running games. With Sence using less RAM it does feel a bit slower than my 600MHZ processor optimus V but it does seem HTC is trying to improve but it does not feel like a giant step but please allow us to turn off Sence in future versions and maybe on the lower end One V maybe used Qualcomms older dual core chip as a single core can feel choppy when using multiple applications.
  
     Now onto the advantages of running the new Sence 4 I have to say that on the One V Sence has been "watered" down for the slower hardware and smaller screen. Now that HTC has dramatically reduced Sence's RAM usage the phone feels fast out the box as opposed to having a custom ROM. One thing that I have noticed is that the stock animations are gone completely which makes the phone feels smoother and much more consistent with the performance.