10 Apps That Kill Smartphone Batteries (all running in the background)

My friend and I were talking to each other about apps that would kill smartphone batteries in less than six hours if left running in the background.  We were thinking up of just apps on any platform, not iOS or Android exclusive ones.  All of this was just mere speculation - I don't know how badly these apps actually drain smart devices' batteries in general.  (I mean, I didn't have performance tests and that whatnot.)  Also not every person with a smartphone would likely have all the all apps mentioned below or even use them at the same time.

(*If you really want to be technical, you'd have to let the smartphone get updates while the phone is asleep for the battery drainage to be dramatic, such as pinging for e-mail updates every 10 minutes.)

Without further ado, I present to you: 10 Smartphone Apps That Kill Battery Life

1)  Facebook

2)  Twitter

3)  Tumblr

4)  Pinterest

5)  Vine

6)  Snapchat

7)  Instagram

8)  YouTube

9)  E-mail (any type)

10)  Camera

Honorable mentions:  Weather (any), such as The Weather Channel

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Image credits:
Facebook - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Facebook.svg
Twitter - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Twitter_bird_logo_2012.svg
Tumblr - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Tumblr_Logo.svg
Pinterest - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Pinterest_Logo.svg
Vine - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Vine_logo_green.png
Snapchat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snapchat_logo.png
Instagram - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Instagram_logo.png
YouTube - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/YouTube_logo_2013.svg
iOS Mail icon - http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/10/tips-mail-iphone-ipad.html
iOS Camera icon - http://tripletsisters.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/ios-7-icons-in-pixelmator/
The Weather Channel icon - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weather.Weather

Edge of Tomorrow - Movie Review

Right now I'm not really in that groove to make a very detailed Edge of Tomorrow.  I saw Edge of Tomorrow with a friend two weeks ago on Wednesday.  It was closer to 2 hours but the content of the movie justified its rather long length.
movie review... However I want to say a few things to say about

(Assuming you know the gist of the trailer...) Despite the repeated "resetting" in the movie, when Cage is thrown to the start of the time loop, the "resets" weren't at all tedious to watch through.  I really enjoyed and appreciated how the movie makers made an aspect of the movie that could've been tedious and redundant to watch the exact opposite.

Also the aliens in the movie weren't that bad.  There's a reason why they don't show what the aliens look like - they're also not all that mind-blowing either.  (Without blowing away the plot aspect that the movie depends on...)  However the aliens also don't appear in the trailers and all because their abilities - let's settle for that - would half spoil the movie.  It's kind of like Kite Runner, where what happens 70 pages and beyond into the book needs to be kept out of the book store's summary or else the whole plot is ruined and no one would bother to read the whole book.

Also the ending kind of felt like a stretch... (If you've watched the movie, then you know what I mean.)  Let's just say that the way the ending was going at first made me thought that the movie was going to start at square one again and that Cage wouldn't have escaped the time looping.

So in short I enjoyed Edge of Tomorrow.  It was a pretty good movie to me.
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Image credit:  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Edge_of_Tomorrow_Poster.jpg

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Movie Review

About two weeks ago I went with a friend to see X-Men: Days of Future Past.  It was a pretty good movie.  The story was intriguing, the plot was well written, and the effects were of excellent quality.  (It sounds like a no-brainer but the effects were also believable - not just some insanely impossible CGI mess.)

The one thing that piqued my interest of faulty was the time travelling.  I mean even after the time paradoxes, I'm not quite sure that the turn of events would turn out just like how things did in the movie... but I'll let the X-Men fanatics figure out any discrepancies in that time sequence shebang.  My friend also had similar thoughts on that aspect of this film, though the thing that bothered him was that the mutants that died would stay dead.  I didn't share those sentiments, though.

Also making Kitty having time traveling related abilities seemed like a bit of a stretch, deus ex machina, or eucatastrophe (whichever you prefer).  I had vaguely remembered that Kitty could phase through objects but my unfamiliarity threw me off when the movie threw that non-canon curveball for this movie's plot.  This brings up how this X-Men film (since it's only the second X-Men movie I've seen for far) took it easy on viewers who don't necessarily have strong X-Men knowledge.

Besides X2: X-Men United that I watched in 2nd grade (back when I couldn't piece together movie plots even after watching movies several times) and the sparse X-Men cartoons from my childhood on Kids' WB TV, I went to watch this movie without all that much retained background knowledge on the mutants.  Despite this I still made the plot of the film pretty well, since apparently Days of Future Past didn't rely that much on the previous movies.

Last but not least, (this isn't really a spoiler, since this scene isn't that essential to the plot) I want to mention the Pentagon kitchen scene with the teenage Quicksilver.  The scene in a sentence is how Quicksilver hilariously disarms a group of Pentagon guards when the mutants are cornered in less than a fraction of a second (thanks to Quicksilver's speed).  That scene was so funny and so well done.  At first the comic scene seems a bit out of place in the overall serious movie plot... although after some reconsideration, it turns out to be much needed comic relief for a ominous plot that doesn't let up until the very last scene.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is a movie that doesn't disappoint.  I'm definitely going to see the next X-Men movie.  Oh, by the way, if you haven't watched the new X-Men film yet, you should be aware that there's some post-credits scene that hints at the next movie.  So don't walk out on the credits - I only did that because my friend wanted to leave right away after the movie.
Moral of my story:  When watching movies from a successful big-budget franchise, watch the credits.  There's a good chance that a post-credits scene will be there to award the tenacious after the credits.  Most likely that scene will hint at the sequel (like this movie or The Avengers) or just be plain funny (such as in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).
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Image credit:  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/X-Men_Days_of_Future_Past_poster.jpg