Save Energy on Your PC

Green is In

As business is going green and policy-makers favoring the direction, heading towards renewable energy sources and energy saving, computer users can start practicing energy saving habits to go green themselves.

Eight Ways to Make Your Computer Green

1. Clean your PC with history cleaners. Cleaner PCs are faster PCs and equate to more tasks done in less time and usage of power.

2. Turn off your computer monitor and computer during idle times.

3. Turn off and unplug unused devices like scanners, printers or cameras.

4. If you are too lazy to turn off your computer when idle, set it to sleep or hibernate mode.

5. Limit the use of resource intensive programs and applications. These applications usually tell you how much resources they're going to take up by looking at the minimum system requirements in the program's documentation.

6. Switch to an LCD monitor.

7. Use Energy Star qualified products.

8. Turn off your surge protector.

Freedom of Expression

How can a technologically advanced society give the greatest happiness to the most number of people when a few people act as all-knowing gods monitoring and controlling people's activities? It's really ironic how we have readily surrendered our trust and our resources to a few institutions to look after our happiness and our freedom and watch the people running these institutions fatten themselves and bar us from access to resources that they have horded. You can call it the law of life or the law of nature but as thinking beings who can direct the course of our policies and our lives to a great degree, we need to reconsider our options and choose a better path where more people get more access. Protocols and policies have definitely made the room for our freedom of expression smaller. Granted this fact, we need to counter the flow of information by not letting Google or Microsoft know what we do online and use that information to their advantage. When Google made clear that privacy is not an important issue, they have made clear what their real intentions are in doing this, control. It is the role of history cleaners to give help us counter this flow. Users have the advantage of numbers. Let us use this advantage wisely.