Lithium-ion battery conservation

I have found a very well written article about how to use lithium-ion battery "Lithium-ion batteries: Myths and Legends" (Spanish) to enlarge the batteries' life. This article has broken some preconceived ideas I had about how to recharge and use this kind of batteries:
1. you don't have to follow full charge-discharge cycles, in fact this is bad for the battery life, it's better to make partial recharges.
2. heat is very harmful for batteries, some web pages recommend to remove the battery from the laptop when the computer is running on fixed power.

The previous article is based on this one from BatteryUniversity.com which also contains very valuable information.
As an additional reference, the page of the Lithium-ion battery in Wikipedia, which also includes guidelines for prolonging Li-ion battery life.

Cool iPhone application design

I don't know if this "Things Touch" by CulturedCode is going to become a real application... but I have to admit that the design is really cool. ;)

Lost productivity caused by email and other electronic interruptions

An interesting article in the New York Times "Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast" describes what all people knows: that email (and the addiction to check for new emails every minute) and instant messages are causing important lost of productivity, and money.
In my personal experience I really try to delay the response when something is not important, but as I commented in my previous entry and it's described in the article, I suffering of "e-mail bankruptcy" ("getting so far behind in responding to e-mail messages that it becomes necessary to delete them all and start over") or "e-mail apnea"... you are so overwhelmed by email that you are unable to process them.

... clearly we are losing the battle against email.

Update: googling about "email bankruptcy" I have found this article "Declaring e-mail bankruptcy" reviewing important e-mail bankruptcy declarations in the pass.