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16000mAh Solar Panel Charger for Laptop

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Power: The nice thing about this Electric Eye Multicrystal Silicon 16000mAh Solar Laptop Battery Panel Charger is that if you don't have sun, you can still have portable power by charging up the 16,000mAh internal battery in a wall socket and waltzing off to wherever it is you need backup power. It just takes less than 3 hours of wall charging to fill it up and the internal battery provides 3 - 5 hours of run time for your laptop with a full charge.
Portability: The whole thing folds up nicely into a little package. About 6.7" x 3.7" x 0.9", and weighing just 0.94 pounds, means that this is highly portable.
31 Unique Adapter Tips: 15pcs Laptop PC Connectors and 16pcs Mobile phone and Digital Products Connectors.

High Capacity Solar Charger and Battery - the perfect green tech gadget for the modern traveler. With a powerful 16,000 mAh battery and 31 unique adapter tips, this solar laptop battery charger will power and charge just about any portable electronic device. No more messy cables, no more multiple power adapters, this handy tech gadget will save users both money and frustration.
When you power on the notebook (laptop), just choose the 19V Charging Voltage, and only charge for the right voltage, if not the right one, it can't work. At the same time, the hybrid solar laptop battery charger supports for manual adjustment. Intelligent overpressure also has the overcurrent protection, when manually select the wrong time, it will automatically shutdown. This portable solar charger also comes with a voltage selection button to ensure full compatibility with a wide variety of electronic products, such as; MP3/MP4 players, portable DVD players, mobile phones, or any other USB powered device using the built-in 5V USB port. Not enough power? Try our 20,000mAh, 54,000mAh solar charger for laptop.

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This universal solar battery 16000mah  power adapter is NOT built cheap. It is built strong and durable and comes with important safety features such as overload protection-- to make sure extra electricity is never sent to your electronic devices, and short circuit protection-- to protect your electronics when accidentally connected with an incompatible adapter tip. If you want to power your expensive electronics on-the-go, then it will help you do that, all day long, and all while keeping your electronics 100% safe from harm.

100% Safety Approved

15 interchangeable tips to fit HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, SONY, Toshiba and other laptop brands
Compatible: Notebook, Mobile Phone,iPod,3G iPhone,PDA, MP3/MP4 player,PSP,NDS,GPS etc
Battery material: Lithium ion polymer 3.7V 16000mAh
Output voltage: (Optional)5V/9V/12V/16V/19V
Output current: 1A/5V, 2A/9-12V, 4A/16-19V
Charging voltage: 100～240V AC/DC
Charging current: 2A (max)
Charging Time (Max.): < 3 hours
Electric eye dimension: 120mmx80mm
Working environment temperature: -10 °C to +70 °C
Material of electric eye multicrystal silicon solar
High solar energy convert efficiency: over 16%
use super-iron shell explosion-resistant extrusion, safe and reliable in the world
Overload protection and short circuit protection safety features
Material of electric eye surface 1mm chemically toughened glass
Ultrasonic mosquito killer: 40~80000HZ auto frequency conversion
Available distance of mosquito killer: 100 SQFT
Flashlight: Ø10mm white LED
Product Size/Weight: 170x95x25mm/430g

Package Details:

- AC100~240V Adaptor 1pc
- Laptop PC connectors 15pcs
- Mobile phone and Digital products connectors 16pcs
- Universal Connecting Cable 2pcs
- Black bag
- English Manual

Sony brand military remote video camera ( 12 million pixels )

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Sony brand military remote video camera, Sony long-distance high-definition camera ( 12 million pixels )

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• Item #: BBSMRVC
• Weight: 283g
• Pixels: 12 million
• Lens: F/3.0; f = 7.45mm
• Rotation: 270 degrees
• Power: lithium battery
• Remote Control: Yes
• Dimensions: 115 * 60 * 50mm
• Digital zoom: 72 x digital zoom
• Inventory: In Stock
  Regular Price: US $ 392.68
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12 million high-definition camera, military remote video camera

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Photoreceptor: 5.1 million CMOS sensors
Pixels: 12 million
Lens: F/3.0; f = 7.45mm
Focus Range: Macro: 300mm-500mm; Standard: 1.2m-infinity
Digital zoom: 72 x digital zoom
Display: 3.0-inch display
Rotation: 270 degrees
Extended Memory: 32G memory card
AV-OUT (output): support, can be connected to a regular TV
Remote Control: Yes
Power supply: lithium battery
Dimensions: 115 * 60 * 50mm
Weight: 283g
Accessories: USB cable, charger, NP60 lithium batteries, TV cable, headphones, remote control, TV package, manual

Product Description

This is a high-definition camera, a stylish cool handheld toy away from home, travel, tourism, vacation, is a high-powered telescope to watch the vision, let you experience the vast horizon.
The whole piano paint, elegant styling with an extraordinary taste at the same time, more durable dirt.

Excellent quality, high-definition displays
Support up to 12 million static imaging, support at HD720 (1280 * 720) to move too, the camera resolution shooting, 5.1 million CMOS the salty optical components, 72 times digital zoom binoculars, so you shoot clearer, more open vision, built-in speaker3.0 inch TFT high-definition 270-degree rotating LCD screen, you can directly connect to a TV output, high-definition "television" show.

Built-in 32MB memory, support for the now mainstream SD / MMC types of storage media, supports up to 32G memory card expansion.

"Exmor R" CMOS image sensors.
Approximately 12 million total pixels, with Exmor R "CMOS image sensor, but also offers excellent picture quality in low light conditions, photosensitivity is about 2 times that of conventional CMOS affect the sensor, bringing interested in the low and high shooting performance.

Remote view
72 times a telephoto lens along with the fringe, to provide you a wider shooting range, greater flexibility, you can at long range shooting vision clearly details closer to the real landscape.

A machine of all-round, including four practical function: A camera = digital camera + decode DV camera + MP3 player + telescope


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1.Recorded in the built-in separate single-function and music, make your life more fun
2.Screen can be heart rotating, self-timer photo more easily.
3.The large LCD Colorful screen, so you see more clearly
4.Long-distance remote control command, the more advanced and more convenient
5.High-power military binoculars, so you went for further
6.Precision screw interface, the telescope can be freely demolition demolition.



Remote Control
Convenient for travelers, not only telescope utility, as well as remote control, if away from home, and inconvenient to others for help shooting, this time, it is necessary to play the role of the remote control, when you choose the right camera angle, the camera is fixed on can take the position of the pose, press the hands of the remote button and leave a good memory, convenient and practical.

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Heavy Duty Fingerprint Door Lock (Left)

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• Item #: BBHDFDL
• Weight:1.8 pounds
• Storage Capacity: 100 fingerprints
• Height Resolution: 500dpi
• Angle of Finger Reading: 360 degrees
• Working Humidity: 0 - 95%

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Regular Price: US $ 385.62

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Robust and Capable: This biometric fingerprint door lock and entry system was thoughtfully designed to handle the most sensitive and high security zones. The Protector can handle can be used to guard private banking offices, VIP rooms, and high classified laboratories among other things. If someone was not meant to have access to a building or room, then this heavy duty fingerprint door lock will make sure it stays that way.

Indestructible: Fireproof, weatherproof and vandalproof, The Protector is made of only the best components along with a high grade die-cast aluminum casing that makes sure it can withstand even the most determined bad guys. Everything that comes with The Protector is of the highest quality, so you can be sure that from the lock set to the strike plate, you're getting a product that would cost 2x as much from others. In fact, burglars may find it easier to break through the wall than try to get through a door that has The Protector installed!

Modern Technology: Mortice dead lock with dual latch bolts means heavy duty, high level security. Throw in a fingerprint scan or access code requirement and you have the most impregnable entry system available today. This fingerprint door lock is impossible to break into, but for those who have clearance, access is easy and only takes a few seconds.

At a Glance...

Heavy duty finger print lock - opens by fingerprint, mechanical key, or key code
Left hand version - For the identical right hand version, check out CVPW-J28-Right
Comes in a complete set with all installation hardware included (door lock, strike plate + box, mortice lock with dual latch bolt)
Sliding cover to help protect the finger touch pad from rain and snow
Easy DIY installation (see video)
Tamper alarm, latch bolt alarm, and other safety features (check FAQ below for full details)

Specifications:

Product Description: Heavy Duty Fingerprint Door Lock
Storage Capacity: 100 fingerprints
Height Resolution: 500dpi
Angle of Finger Reading: 360 degrees
Unlock Method: Fingerprint, Access Pincode, Physical Key (meant to be kept with director or manager)
Door Thickness: 35mm - 80mm, shim plates provided for thinner doors
Power Source: 8x AA battery (lasts 12-18 months, not included)
Static Power Consumption: 20uA
Dynamic Power Consumption: 180mA
Working Temperature: -20 to 55 Degrees C
Working Humidity: 0 - 95%
False Rejection Rate (FRR): = 1%
False Acceptance Rate (FAR): = 0.0001%
Verification and Comparison Time: = 1s
Dimensions: 316.23 x 76.6 x 80 mm (H x W x D)

Asus G75VW Review: A Budget-Friendly Gaming Laptop With Mediocre Performance

Asus probably isn't the first company that comes to mind when you think of big desktop replacement laptops that are optimized for gaming. The Asus G75VW, however, is the latest in a long line of gaming laptops produced by the company under the "Republic of Gamers" brand. Considering that gaming laptops often go for well over $2000, this big machine is relatively budget-priced, and it isn't awful--but it isn't great, either. Although it suffers in general performance, audio quality, and battery life, it has a nice screen, and the price may be right. Our review model, priced at $1500 (as of May 23, 2012), sports an Intel Core i7-3610QM processor, 12GB of RAM, 1.5TB of hard-drive space, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M graphics chip. It also has built-in 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and a Blu-ray/DVD combo drive. The G75VW runs the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium.

Performance

In our WorldBench 7 benchmark tests, the G75VW posted a paltry score of 97. This means that the G75VW is 3 percent slower than our baseline system, which is not an impressive achievement for a desktop replacement laptop. After all, our baseline system is a desktop PC with an Intel Core i5-2500K processor, 8GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card. A WorldBench 7 score of 97 is far from outstanding for an all-purpose laptop, let alone a desktop replacement specifically designed for gamers.

The G75VW's performance in our graphics and gaming tests was a little better than its WorldBench 7 showing, and much closer to what we expect from the desktop replacement category. In our Crysis 2 graphics tests, the G75VW managed a frame rate of 30.8 frames per second (high quality settings, 1980 by 1080 resolution), which isn't terrible. For context, on the same graphics test the Origin EON17-S produced a frame rate of 43.1 fps, while the MSI GT70 managed a frame rate of 33.8 fps.

Like most huge desktop replacements geared toward gamers, the G75VW doesn't boast impressive search as 4800mAh Li-ion Replacement HP ProBook 4710s Laptop Battery life. In our tests it lasted for 2 hours, 35 minutes, coming within 3 minutes of the Origin EON17-S, currently the highest-rated product in this category.

Design: Chassis, Keyboard, and Touchpad

There are few ways to make a hulking, 9.5-pound desktop replacement attractive, but Asus does a decent job of it by giving the G75VW a wedge-shaped chassis with slick angles and a soft, rubberized plastic black cover. The G75VW looks a lot like its predecessor, the G74SX, but it's a tad lighter (9.5 instead of 9.9 pounds) and a bit thinner (2.04 inches at its thickest, versus 2.4 inches). It still comes with a hefty 2-pound power brick, however.
The interior is also attractive, with a brushed-metal keyboard deck, a rubberized wrist-rest area, and a silvery Republic of Gamers logo. A few pinprick-size white and green LEDs on the bottom-left corner of the computer indicate Replacement ACER Aspire 5740-5513 Battery status, Wi-Fi, eco-mode, and the like. The LEDs are bright, but not distractingly so.
As for ports, the G75VW is fairly packed, with four USB 3.0 ports (including one sleep-and-charge), ethernet, headphone and microphone jacks, and a three-in-one card reader. You also get HDMI-out, VGA-out, and a mini-DisplayPort connection.
The G75VW sports a full-size backlit keyboard with matte-black island-style keys. In addition, the keyboard deck is large enough to fit a 10-key number pad, which is located about an inch and a half to the right of the keyboard (some computers cram the keyboard and number pad right next to each other, which is inconvenient for users--especially gamers). The G75VW's keys are widely spaced and easy to press, and offer good feedback.
The large, soft plastic black touchpad has two big, discrete mouse buttons. The touchpad supports multitouch gestures such as pinch-to-zoom, and the buttons are easy to press. Regrettably, the touchpad isn't as responsive as I like to see in gaming laptops, and the cursor seems to drag slowly across the screen. Fortunately, you don't have to use the touchpad: Asus includes a USB-wired gaming mouse that has five buttons and a scrollwheel. Since gamers will probably prefer to use an external mouse with this computer regardless, the sluggish touchpad isn't a deal breaker.

Screen and Speakers

The G75VW has a 17.3-inch LED-backlit matte screen with a native resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. This screen is an improvement over the glossy display of the Asus G74SX (and that screen was actually very good, save for some backlighting glitches). The G75VW's screen is bright and offers an excellent range of off-axis viewing angles. Colors look great, and images and text appear crisp. Media playback--both streaming HD footage and Blu-ray video--looks fantastic, with sharp images and deep blacks.
The laptop has two speakers and a subwoofer, located above the keyboard and placed under a gray metal mesh. The speakers are loud enough, but the default setting has the subwoofer delivering not only the bass, but all of the other sounds as well. The result is a harsh-sounding mess of audio, delivered predominantly from the left side of the machine. You can tweak the sound settings for slightly better results by going to Control Panel > Sound > Speakers > Properties and adjusting the mono-bass from the default setting of 80 down to about 45. This improves the sound quality a little, but audio still tends to have a harsh, raw edge that's painful to listen to. Thankfully, the headphone jack provides clean audio with plenty of depth.

The Bottom Line

The Asus G75VW is a budget-priced gaming laptop, and in this case you kind of get what you pay for. Don't get me wrong: The G75VW can play most games at an acceptable level, and it's a fairly attractive machine to boot. Plus, it has a great screen with excellent viewing angles.
That said, it's lacking in general performance, and it's nothing like some of the higher-end gaming laptops we've seen, such as the Origin EON17-S. On the other hand, though the EON17-S has twice the WorldBench 7 score of the G75VW, it also costs more than twice as much.
If you're looking for a somewhat budget-friendly gaming laptop, the G75VW is quite capable. But you will need to use headphones.

Battery technology for solar exists, LiFeBatt says

One Danville company emphasizes the battery technology exists for solar projects.

“They haven’t talked to LiFeBatt,” said LiFeBatt USA Chief Operating Officer Michelle Robinson about Dominion Virginia Power canceling its Halifax County solar project because its battery company partner didn’t follow through as planned.

“The solar battery company we were partnering with had extensive delays in its programs and began to miss too many milestones,” said company spokesman Jim Norvelle on Friday. Dominion didn’t name the battery company.

LiFeBatt USA in Danville designs and assembles lithium iron phosphate batteries that perform better than lead acid batteries in the cycle of discharging and recharging needed for solar power, she said. The batteries are shipped to Danville from Taiwan.

LiFeBatt’s batteries are capable of being used for large projects, Robinson said, as she prepares a proposal for the company to work with a utility in the future.

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Hands On: Is Acer’s Iconia Tab A510 Fit for Olympic Competition?

If you’re an Android device manufacturer in today’s crowded tablet space, you have bigger problems than worrying about how you’re going to compete with Apple. Before even addressing the iPad challenge, you have to kick, claw and bully your way through a field of tablet competitors also running Google’s mobile OS.
Samsung, Asus and Motorola: They’re all doing their best to sweep up that small universe of tablet-curious consumers who haven’t joined Team iPad. And now Acer is making another bid for relevancy in the 10.1-inch Android tablet space.
Does the new $450 slate make a compelling argument? No, it doesn’t. That’s our initial takeaway after about four hours of hands-on use.
As soon as I took the A510 out of its box, I noticed the back of the tablet is adorned with the familiar five-ringed logo of the Olympic games. It’s a fine logo. It always has been. But a simple branding tie-in isn’t a relevant “feature.” The A510′s physical design is much more germane.
The A510 measures 0.42 inches thick and weighs 1.54 pounds — heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Asus Tranformer Prime and new iPad, but not by much. There’s a soft, rubberized coating across the back of the tablet. It has an appealing softness to it, and also adds a bit of grippiness — welcome considering the tablet feels a bit hefty.
Indeed, this tablet is likely to get heavy after a couple hours of continued use if you had to hold it up yourself.
Unfortunately, the large screen didn’t impress me, despite its 1280×800 resolution. It’s an IPS display that offers solid off-axis viewing, but in this age of Super AMOLED screens and Retina displays, it’s not a stunner by any means. And all visual content — the home screen, apps, websites and photos snapped on the 5-megapixel rear camera — renders on the cool side of the color spectrum.
While I’m annoyed by competing screens that err toward over-saturation, the A510′s display is too pale for my tastes. And while, technically, the A510 has a high-definition screen (insomuch as it supports 720p), app icons look blurry upon close inspection. Text rendered on websites and throughout the OS looks sharp, but the screen doesn’t come close to wowing me.
THe A510 boasts 32GB of storage, a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, and 1GB of RAM, which helps the tablet run quickly, at least on the lock screen. However, drilling down into features found in the OS itself — an Acer-skinned version of Android 4, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich — presents a different sory.
Acer’s most obvious addition to ICS — and its biggest attempt at competitive differentiation — is the increasingly familiar “Acer Ring,” a user interface element that pins frequently used apps and content items on a touch-sensitive carousel.
Unlocking the tablet requires a swipe of a lockscreen ring. Swipe to the right, and you’re in, picking up wherever you last left off, whether on the home screen or in an app. You can also swipe to the left to go straight to your web browser, photo gallery, Google search or the camera app.
Once inside, you’ll find a pale green ring icon at the bottom of the home screen — tap it to bring up yet another ring. This new ring features a volume slider, a fan array of icons for bookmarked webpages, and quick-launch controls for the photo gallery app, the web browser, OS settings, and a screenshot tool.
The ring on the lockscreen reacts quickly. The ring summoned from the menu bar — not so much. Its rolling animation launches slowly. Launching into apps and moving the fan of bookmarked webpages is quicker, but Acer’s whole ring experience feels like a forced exercise in product differentiation.
Ice Cream Sandwich is Google’s breakthrough OS, and there’s really no need to re-skin it unless a manufacturer can add real value and innovation. But the Acer Ring doesn’t deliver this. Instead it just offers an second way to access elements that can already be exposed on a smartly configured home screen.
While the A510 offers competitive internal specs, its display isn’t anything special, and its Ring U.I. is more of an innocuous curiosity than a useful feature. And the Olympic rings logo, while full of history and import, is nothing more than window dressing.
Again, we only spent a few hours with the A510, but nothing about the experience told us this tablet is the 10.1-inch Android device to beat.
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HTC One X shows HTC ditched battery life, chose thin instead

Which would you prefer: a phone so gossamer-thin it practically disappears when you slip it in your pocket, or a phone with more stamina than Charlie Sheen double-dropping viagra? HTC reckons you want thin rather than long-lasting.
The company behind the popular HTC One X, HTC One V and HTC One S reckons a slimline casing is more of a priority for phone fans than a lengthy battery life. One of HTC's chief strategy wonks said that after asking customers, the company ditched battery-boosting plans to concentrate on thinner phones instead.
There's something insanely seductive about a thin gadget -- ultrabooks and OLED TVs make our heads reel as giddy as a schoolgirl. But let's face it: how much thinner can phones get? They need to have some weight in our hands and in our pockets.
And lest we forget, the extremely thin HTC One X had a minor problem with flexing.
I reckon HTC is misjudging what customers want. Here at CNET, we've noticed a growing discontentment among our readers with phone battery life. Many of you lament that your phone barely lasts a day of solid use, and with dual-core and quad-core powerhouses hitting shop shelves, phones are only getting more energy-suckingly powerful.
More powerful phones don't necessarily mean worse battery life, as it's all about the software and hardware working together in the most efficient way. That means only using power when it's needed, and wringing the last drops of juice from a battery.

Which would you prefer: a svelte smart phone or boffo battery life -- or somewhere in between? Tell me your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page.

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Free, Ad-Supported Mobile Apps Are Killing Your Battery

Filed under "you get what you pay for": Researchers at Microsoft tested the energy consumption of various apps on Android and Windows Phone (iOS restrictions kept them from testing the iPhone) and found that up to 75% of an app's energy use goes to power the advertisements in free, ad-supported apps. The numbers may not have much of an impact without tying them to an app you actually use, so what about an extremely popular game like Angry Birds:

In the case of Angry Birds, research suggested that only 20% of the total energy consumption was used to actually play the game itself.
Of the rest, 45% is used finding out your location with which it can serve targeted advertising.

The lesson: Next time you're choosing the ad-supported version of an app over, say, its $1 counterpart, you may want to consider whether you're willing to pay extra just to keep your ACER Aspire 5715Z battery going longer. Yet another way free stuff isn't always worth it.

David Nurbin @luckycharms

It would need to much in privileges. Jail breaking allows installation from other places, and tweaks, etc. but ad-block requires re-routing the traffic for certain sites, interfering with the DNS lookup. Way out of Jail-breaking's league. But possible on a rooted Android. (Edit comment)

CamJN @luckycharms

Just mod the hosts file. (Edit comment)

veovis.muaddib @David Nurbin

Congratulations! Another person spreading misinformation out of ignorance!
I don't know what you're on about as far as privileges, jailbreaking's biggest negative is security because applications installed through Cydia and other sources can do as they'd please. Change your bootloader and install Android as a dual boot, or block ads, either way the jailbreak allows it.
As per the original issue:
AdBlocker - Blocks ads in Safari and other applications, does a pretty good job of it but misses some ad sources. For example IM+ and Pandora
Firewall iP - Allows one to block connections to individual hostnames and IP addresses and apps, with easy options for length. (Once, session, always, etc...) I use it to block the ads in IM+ without issue, as well as a few other applications.
Pandora Skip Hack - While it allows overruling the skip limits, its best feature is the fact that it blocks the text and audio ads while listening.
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luckycharms @veovis.muaddib

thanks for the refs. I tried AdBlocker, but felt like it was really gumming up the works and slowing things down (when the opposite is the goal!). Firewall IP sounds ok, except, which hostnames/IPs do you block?
BTW, is your name a killing word?
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Edited by luckycharms at 03/19/12 2:29 PM

luckycharms @CamJN

and block which IPs? Found this, not sure if it's reliable: [modmyi.com] (Edit comment)

Edited by luckycharms at 03/19/12 2:32 PM

luckycharms @luckycharms

update: modded with the file linked in the link above. seems to work like a charm! thanks for the tip, CamJN! (Edit comment)

veovis.muaddib @luckycharms

I'd trust a hosts file tutorial from modmyi. Worst case scenario it MIGHT block something legitimate, but that's a pretty small possibility. The steps are correct for getting it there, so you're fine on that route.
There are two Cydia packages for AdBlock. AdBlock which I had some problems with, and AdBlocker which I've enjoyed using thus far, and haven't had any issues with. Ensure you're using the right one.
Firewall iP brings up a prompt every time a network connection is attempted. It's then a matter of blocking the ones that look like ad sites and allowing the ones that look legitimate. Generally if an application contacts the developer's domain, I allow it, and if it says ads I'll block it. I'll also block any plain IP addresses. Once you've done this, make sure the application works if it does anything online. If it doesn't, go to Firewall iP's settings and remove denials until it works for you. It's a lot of upfront effort every time you install a new application, but it works well and I think it's worth the effort.
Good luck!
Oh, and no. It's my two favorite characters from fiction. I'd link to descriptions of them but all the encyclopedic entries I find are poorly done and look like gibberish if you aren't familiar with them already.
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TechDaddyK @luckycharms

Not to get all preachy, but by going through all the effort to block ads, you're denying the developer a paycheck for all the hard work and time they put into making an app and offering to you FOR FREE. Just buy the app and quit whining about the $1. Seriously! (Edit comment)

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CamJN @TechDaddyK

Meh if a dev doesn't want their app stolen/ads disabled it's not hard to detect a jailbreak and refuse to start the app. I've done it before. (Edit comment)

Ryan William Claus @TechDaddyK

@David Nurbin
Uhm... Jailbreaking is a root of the device, with access to everything, including all system files. Not to hard to reroute traffic. That's like saying an administrator of a PC cannot modify the hosts file.

@TechDaddyK Eh, I just leave the app running all night while I'm syncing to my computer (Hooray for Synchrocity) then kill all ads while working with my iOS device in the day. They get their paycheck (much more that they normally would too) and I still keep my Dell XPS M1730 Laptop Battery life intact.

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In-App Ads Are Destroying Your Battery Life

You intuitively know that all of those applications running in the background on your phone are latently eating away at your battery's charge, but a new study reveals that the main culprit isn't any useful function. It's location-pinging ads.
The study, conducted by a team lead by Abhinav Pathak from Purdue University, analyzed the energy used by several popular free Android apps (PDF) like Angry Birds, Facebook, the New York Times, and Chess. The team developed an "energy profiler" they call "Eprof" that determines what processes within an app are using energy. The results are shocking: 65 to 75 percent of energy consumed by the free apps studied are used by third-party advertising modules within the programs. These apps continue to run in the background even when you're not actually using the app. Only 10 to 30 percent of that energy is used to power the applications' "core functions."
Apps shouldn't continue to serve you ads when you're not locking at the apps. It's a bug, or something more nefarious. According to the researchers, developers don't notice energy consumption problems—bugs or otherwise—because most apps are "energy oblivious," meaning that the developers don't pay attention to how much energy apps use. [Eurosys 2012 via New Scientist]

Philip.J.Fry @QAZZY

From what I've read, ad blockers just block the apps from being viewed. It doesn't keep the app from running and trying to show them. What you're describing implies the ad blocker actually tells the other app what to do. I highly doubt that is what's happening. (Edit comment)

 QAZZY @Philip.J.Fry

That may be true, I don't detect any significant increase in COMPAQ Presario C307NR battery life. At any rate, it's great because I hate ads. (Edit comment)

phiyuku @Philip.J.Fry

An app like AdAway blocks Apps from downloading at all by using host files. The effect is when I was using Ad Free it blocked my emails from Newegg which is why I switched to AdAway. Some ads still aren't blocked though. In this case though while your data might be saved since it won't download the images and such, the pinging for location will still continue causing not much of a HP ProBook 4710s Laptop Battery  saving. (Edit comment)

Snafu77 @phiyuku

Yeah depending on the apps behavior when encountering a failure to download ad content you could be killing your battery even more. I'm guessing diminished display activity including flash style ads more than makes up for a bunch of retries since display usage is a big SONY VGP-BPS13/S Laptop Battery waster. (Edit comment)

Blazze @QAZZY

The better thing to use is a firewall to block that data all together. (most) Games don't need data. (Edit comment)

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Makkuro @Philip.J.Fry

Rooted phone allow you to install powerful firewall which actually controls internet access *per application*. Say, I can set Wikipedia for full access (Wifi or 4G) but Angry Bird to no-access. This will at least eliminate unnecessary data usage and some of the power drains associated with it (on the cell radio side). Although to be fair it will not stop the app from waking the phone up and consuming CPU cycle... (Edit comment)

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Glendora Store Named Top Battery Recycler

A Glendora hardware store was recently recognized for collecting the largest pile of used TOSHIBA PABAS076 batteries in the San Gabriel Valley.
Mission Ace Hardware in Glendora collected over 1,500 pounds of batteries as part of a valley-wide battery-recycling project that has collected over 6,800 pounds of batteries since January 2011.
Mission Ace Hardware collected 169 pounds of batteries just in February alone.
By the time the project wraps at the end of March, coordinators hope to collect 10,000 pounds – or five tons – of used Satellite A305-S6841 Battery.
The top two businesses in the program – Mission Ace and Arnold’s Frontier Hardware were recognized during a ceremony March 15.
Organized by the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments who received a grant through the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to facilitate the program, the project aims to increase awareness of proper disposal of used batteries.
ToshibaTecra A6-S513 Batteries have been banned from California landfills since 2006 because they contain valuable metals such as zinc and cadmium, which are used to make various products such as electronics. Batteries are also believed to degrade soil and lead to groundwater contamination and other environmental hazards.
Residents can bring any household batteries – rechargeable or alkaline less than pounds – and cell phones to any of the 39 locations. Other acceptable items include old lithium cell phones, camera batteries and AAA-D batteries.
According to a survey conducted as part of the grant program, less than 60 percent of the public was aware that disposing batteries in the trash is prohibited. About 56 percent of the public admitted they disposed of their batteries in the trash because legal disposal was not convenient.
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