For the first few days I had my iPhone 4S, I noticed the persistent Location Services icon in my toolbar. If you’re seeing that, something is draining your battery. Here’s some tips on some items to turn off to get around a bug that may be eating your battery life:

iDownload Blog: This Tip Could Cure Your iPhone 4S Battery

One of the drawbacks of social networking while watching TV is that I’m using time-shifting it. Another is that you don’t want to spoil anything by posting about the fate of a character on a show like Breaking Bad, where people are likely to be a few episodes behind.

Yahoo bought and rebranded IntoNow, and has just released an iPad version. The app will listen to your TV and figure out what you are watching and then serve you additional info about the show, conversation, etc. Cool idea. Just now trying it out.

Only thing is… none of my friends seem to be using it. I need to befriend more early adopters.

Just after the App Store was first released, I started following an RSS feed of every app released on the store—I didn’t want to miss anything.

As the stream turned into a river, that became undoable.

Lately, I’ve followed several feeds of reviews of apps, but as in usually the case in Google Reader, you can never really catch up with your feeds, there’s always more.

My unread count for my iOS reviews and news feeds is at about 1500 articles right now. I just can’t keep up.

One of the features I enjoyed the most was the Apps Gone Free by AppAdvice, and now that feature is available via its own app.

It’s a great way to find some free games for your kids. They only list apps that have at least a 3 star rating.