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Best Headphones for Running & Working Out

April 27, 2014 / / 1,613 Comments

Best headphones for running & working out
Motorola S305 Bluetooth review
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This is my review of the best headphones for running and working out. This is just my personal opinion, but they are the Motorola S305 Bluetooth headphones. Of course you need a device with Bluetooth capability to use these. But the Bluetooth feature is a huge part of why these are the best for working out because once you get rid of the cords and wires you’ll never want to go back to a wired headset ever. The Motorola S305 Bluetooth headphones are very affordable. You can get them on Amazon for a great deal, and I’ve been using this exact same Bluetooth headset for almost 3 years now. Never had a problem with it. That’s why I can recommend it as the best headphones for running and working out.

Let’s go over what I love about these headphones. Of course I love the wireless aspect. Since these are Bluetooth headphones they do run on a built-in battery that is rechargeable. It comes with a charger. I’ve never had a problem with the battery life. I only have to charge them about once a week. I get about 5 to 6 hours of use per charge. I’ve had these for over 2 years, and the battery life is as long as it was when I first got them. They charge very quickly too.

The sound quality on these is fairly good for the size. These are quite small. Of course they’re not professional studio quality headphones. They’re made for durability and portability. You’re not going to get extreme high-quality studio sound from these headphones, but they are good enough for working out. They get really loud. I’ve never even reached the full loudness on these things. You will not have a problem with it not being loud enough when you’re in a noisy gym.

These headphones are fairly comfortable. They have a snug fit. They’re not going to shake or rattle or fall off easily when you’re running or doing any type of high intensity activity. I usually wear them for an hour and a half each use, and they stay pretty comfortable.

They also have a built in microphone and controls on the headset. This includes a power button, volume buttons, play and pause buttons, call answer button, and skip buttons. All the controls are on the right side of the headset. If you are listening to music on your phone and somebody calls in it goes directly to the headphones and you can talk directly into the built-in microphone without having to hold your phone up close to your mouth. You can also control your music from the headphones with the buttons.

These headphones are extremely durable. During my ownership I’ve thrown them across the basketball gym floor many times. They still work perfectly to this day. They are lightweight and flexible. You can bend them with ease. I’m not a very sweaty guy, but I’ve read other reviews on these headphones and they said that it handles sweat pretty well. The foam on the headphones seem durable too. Mine are still intact.

So if you’re looking for the best headphones for running and working out I do recommend the Motorola S305 Bluetooth headphones. I hope you enjoyed the review. Get a pair of these. They’re extremely affordable and they do make working out and running easier and more fun!

By Andy Slye

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How to Save Battery on iOS 7

April 23, 2014 / / 0 Comments

In this video I’ll show you how to save battery on iOS 7. All of these tips apply to any iOS 7 device: iPhone, iPod, and iPad

Tip 1: End all background running apps once a day. To do this all you have to do is is double tap the home button and swipe up on each app to end the background process. This will save battery when you’re not using it.

Tip 2: Enable airplane mode when you’re not using the network or the cellular data on your device. So normally when I go to bed I just swipe up to enable airplane mode by tapping on the airplane icon. It shuts off all data connections and saves battery life.

Tip 3: Enable auto brightness or just lower your brightness level overall on your device. Go to settings then go to wallpapers and brightness and you can enable auto brightness if it’s not already enabled. Also you can just turn down your overall brightness there using the scroll bar. Keep auto brightness enabled to extend battery life on your iPhone, iPod or iPad.

Tip 4: Disable Bluetooth and Airdrop if you’re not using those features.

Tip 5: Disable any unnecessary notifications in your notification center. Go to Settings then Notification Center and disable any of these that you do not need notifications for. You can choose to disable all of them or just certain ones depending on which app it is so you can customize it to your liking.

Tip 6: Disable unnecessary location services. So in Settings go to privacy and then location services you can choose to turn location services on but only turn it on for certain apps. I disabled location services for any app that does not need it. A lot of these apps don’t need your location information. That’ll save battery life for sure.

Tip 7: Disable unnecessary system services. Scroll to the bottom and tap on system services and disable these three options: diagnostics and usage, location-based iAds, and popular near me. These three apps are basically unnecessary for the majority of iPhone users so turn those off. Also turn off frequent locations.

Tip 8: Limit ad tracking. Under Settings go back to privacy and at the bottom you see an advertising tab. Tap on that and make sure that your limit ad tracking is enabled. You want to limit the ad tracking that your iPhone is doing in the background.

Tip 9: Disable Diagnostics & Usage reports. Go into Settings go to General go to About scroll to the bottom and go to diagnostics and usage and make sure that the “Don’t send” is checked. If you want to send that stuff and be a good citizen you can leave it on “Automatically send” but if you want to maximize your battery life you can change that.

Tip 10: Reduce motion. If you don’t care about the parallax 3D effects on the background and the transition effects for the app’s closing and opening go to Settings go to General, Accessibility go down to Reduce Motion.

Tip 11: Disable background app refresh. Go into settings then general and then tap on background app refresh. Disable it for all apps or enable it and then enable certain apps like I have. I turned off background app refresh for apps that I do not want to update in the background. That’ll save battery life especially when you have a lot of apps open at the same time.

Tip 12: Disable automatic updates by going into Settings go to the iTunes and App Store option. Here you can disable automatic downloads and automatic updates for music and apps. Also you can disable cellular data so it doesn’t use your cell data to do automatic downloads.

Tip 13: Configure Spotlight search settings. Go to Settings then go to General tap on spotlight search and here you can disable spotlight search for any app that you want. You can customize this list for any app that you do not need spotlight search for. Uncheck it and spotlight search will not index that app which will save battery life.

That is how to save battery life on iOS 7. I hope you enjoyed the tips. If you have any other tips that I didn’t cover or I missed just leave a comment below. Make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel. Thanks for watching!

By Andy Slye

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How To Clean Up iTunes Library – Fix All Songs Automatically!

January 8, 2014 / / 1,574 Comments

In this video I’ll show you how to clean up your iTunes library. We all know how hard it is to keep your iTunes library organized with all the correct song, artist, and genre information especially when you have hundreds and even thousands of songs in your iTunes music library. It’s nearly impossible to do that manually. That’s why you need an application like Neat Music to clean up your iTunes library. This program uses intelligent music recognition to complete missing artist, track, album, and genre information for your songs. It corrects “untitled” or “unknown” track info. It adds missing album artwork, groups scattered album songs, and organizes all your music for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod.

First, click the link at top of this description. That link will take you directly to the free download page for Neat Music, which works on Windows PC computers. You can try this application out for free. It’ll fix up to 100 songs in your iTunes library with the free version. If you have more than 100 songs in your iTunes you can buy the unlimited version at a special discounted price so you can fix your entire iTunes library. Once you download it, install it on your computer. Then open up iTunes and open up the Neat Music application.

It gives you a preview of your iTunes library at the bottom. As you can see if I go back to my iTunes I have these songs that I have no information for. I have no idea what the song name, artist name, album, genre, year, etc. There’s no album artwork either so it would take me forever to do this manually, but with Neat Music it does it automatically for me.

With Neat Music you can select all the songs in your library and click the Identity button. That will identify all the song info. It’s very fast and only takes about one second per song to get the information. Once it’s done you’ll see this red icon for success, and you can click on each song and it gives you a little preview of what info it has found for that song. To save that information in your iTunes just select the songs and click the Save button. It’ll import all the information into your iTunes, cleaning it up automatically with all the correct track names, artist names, album names, etc.

Neat Music also gives you the ability to get all the album artwork. Click the Get Album Art tab at the top, and it gives a list of albums in your library. Select all the albums then click Get Album Art. It gives you the standard album artwork. It also gives you high quality versions. I usually just go with the standard so double click that and it’ll import it into iTunes. Go back into iTunes, and you’ll see now it has all the correct song information, the correct album information, the album artwork – everything. It did it within just a few seconds. That is how to clean up your iTunes library automatically, quickly, and easily. That’s with the program called Neat Music. You can download the free trial version with the link at the top of this description. Enjoy!

By Andy Slye

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How To Jailbreak iOS 7 Untethered with Evasi0n (iPhone, iPad, iPod)

December 29, 2013 / / 1,552 Comments

This video shows you how to jailbreak iOS 7 on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod. The first step is to connect your device (your iPhone, iPad, or iPod) to your computer, and when iTunes opens select “Back Up Now” to make a backup of your device. It’ll only take a few minutes. Step number two is to restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to the latest iOS version (during this video it’s 7.0.4). While it’s connected to iTunes click the “Restore” button. As long as you just made that successful backup you can click “Restore and Update” and it’ll restore to the latest version of iOS so you can do the jailbreak. Restore your device from the most recent backup that you just did.

Next, go on your device and disable any passcode lock that you have on it if you have one. You can re-enable it once you’re done with the jailbreak. After you’ve disabled your passcode lock, go on your computer and visit evasi0n.com and download the jailbreak application for your operating system, Mac or Windows. Click the Download button to download it to your computer then double-click the application to run it. Make sure that your iPad, iPhone, or iPod version is supported by the jailbreak.

If you don’t already have your device connected to your computer go ahead and do that right now. Let it sync to iTunes, and then once it’s connected click the jailbreak button. The jailbreak process will begin, and it will take a few minutes to complete. During the jailbreak process your device will reboot several times. When it says to, continue by unlocking your device and tap the new evasion 7 icon. It’ll come up and go right back down and reboot. The device will reboot one last time, and evasi0n says that it’s done. After the final reboot you will see evasion complete some final tasks while it completes the jailbreak.

Now you can go into your device and go to the last page and you should see Cydia. Tap on it to open it. It’ll prepare the file system. Once your device re-springs it’ll come back up. Go back into Cydia one last time then choose User. Complete any upgrades if available. Your iOS 7 device is now jailbroken! You can go into Cydia and start adding all the tweaks and apps that you want. Enjoy!

By Andy Slye

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Too Cheap for Spotify? Try This Free Music Streaming App

December 15, 2013 / / 1,551 Comments

Free Music Streaming App (Spotify Alternative)

Musi (iOS – Free)

If you’re too cheap or lazy to pay for Spotify then there’s an app for that. Musi is a free app for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Musi basically turns YouTube into a music streaming app. Any video on YouTube can be streamed like an MP3 song with this app. Once you have the app, open it up, and tap the plus sign. This will take you to a YouTube search screen. It also has 4 categories: Most liked, Trending, Our picks, and Top charts. Most likely you’re just going to be using the search function here. Once you search for your artist or song name it will show you the results just like YouTube would show them on your computer.

If you want to add a song just tap on it. It gives you a little preview, and you can play the video to make sure that’s the correct song that you want to add. You can also see the video description as well. If you want to add it just tap “Add Song”. What that does is it adds it to your library. It doesn’t download it, but it just adds it to your library like a queue. When you go back, you should now see the song in your music library.

You can play all the songs in your library. It will stream them like a music streaming service, but it’s streaming them from YouTube and for free, Probably the best feature about this app is the fact that you can play the songs while the device is locked and while you’re closed out of the app. The songs and playlists do continue to play when you lock the device on this app. That’s why love it especially since it’s free. It’s like having an on-demand music streaming service, and it definitely comes in handy when you’re working out.

You can also create playlists. The cool thing is some people upload entire albums into one YouTube video. Go ahead and take advantage of all those people out there who are uploading copyrighted material to YouTube. Also you can change the streaming quality options. If you’re on Wi-Fi you can set it to where it will stream the highest quality version of the song by tapping the Concert quality button. If you’re streaming over 3G you probably just want to keep it on Basement which is the lowest quality but is the fastest and won’t use up all your data from your data plan. So if you’re looking for a free music streaming app this is definitely the app to get. It’s called Musi, and it’s free in the Apple App Store. Pass this along to all your friends, and they will definitely love you for it.

By Andy Slye

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