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Issue · Green Practices That Save · Fixing Microsoft Outlook · Microsoft Finds a Sense of Humor
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Green Practices That SaveNo matter what your opinion is regarding the causes of global warming and the impact changing our individual behavior may have on the environment, everyone wants to save money! Recently the website Windows Secrets offered two full chapters from the soon to be released new book Green Home Computing for Dummies as a free bonus just for signing up for their excellent newsletter. This edition of The Outlook Expert will discuss some of the key points from this extract and provide a few helpful hints on saving yourself and your organization the green you can spend by reducing your energy consumption. How much power are you using?First let’s look at the energy use of the various devices that we use everyday in our home or office. The chart below is from page 168 and provides a summary of energy consumed by these devices:
The first thing you will notice is that laptops use less than a third of the power of a desktop computer when active and less than a fifth when on standby! Likewise LCD monitors use a third of the power of older CRT monitors. Turn it OffWhile the other components listed in the chart use small amounts of energy, they add up, especially when you realize that most people leave their modem, wireless router, and multifunction printer powered up 24 hours a day. If you add the power consumption of these components up the total is about 40 watts, but then if you realize that they are on during the 16 hours you are NOT using your computer, the power consumption during every workday is greater than leaving your desktop computer on for 8 hours. When one considers that these devices are also left on over weekends and holidays, then the cost is nearly double! Additional power savings can be obtained by connecting these devices to a power strip and instead of simply turning them off, also turn off the power strip. It turns out that most devices continue to consume small amounts of power even when totally turned off. While the amounts are small, the fact that these devices are always connected starts to bring the total power consumed to significant levels plus it is pointless waste of power. Dump your Screen SaverFrom page 171 of Green Home Computing for
Dummies:
Detailed instructions for disabling your screen saver are found in the book. Put Your Computer to SleepFrom page 174 of Green Home Computing for
Dummies: “Putting your computer to sleep when you
aren’t using it is an important part of saving power. A sleeping computer
uses less power while keeping your session alive and ready to use. However,
Microsoft actually has three terms for sleeping, as explained in the
following list. Standby: Places your computer
in an energy-saving mode. Memory is still active and holds your data. However,
hard drives, monitors, and other peripherals are shut down. The processor and
many other peripherals are in a low-power state. As a result, your computer
uses around 11 watts instead of the usual amount of power. Hibernate: Saves all the data for
the current session to the hard drive and then shuts the computer down. As a
result, hibernate requires about the same amount of time as a normal boot to
restore your session. This mode does save more power at around 4 watts. Sleep: Initially places your computer in an enhanced standby mode. Sleep uses features found in new computers to reduce power usage more than with the Standby mode found in Windows XP. Instead of 11 watts, the Sleep mode uses around 8 watts. After three hours (the time interval is adjustable using the Power Options dialog box), Sleep places your computer in the equivalent of Hibernate mode (power usage goes down to around 4 watts), so you get the best of both Standby and Hibernate in a single package.” Detailed instructions on setting your Power Profile are found in the book. Check out the extract for even more good ideas about saving green as well as being green! Fixing Microsoft Outlook
A new website called fixoutlook.org is attempting to use the power of Twitter to force Microsoft to change the rendering approach used in Microsoft Outlook 2010. This effort is backed by various e-mail marketing groups, but if the fact that Word is the only rendering engine within Outlook bothers you, you may want to add your voice. See below for more information on this issue from Microsoft and others:
The Power
of Word in Outlook - Outlook Team blog
Microsoft Finds a Sense of HumorRemember the odd Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld ads?
Those ads were so unfunny that viewers thought worse of Microsoft after
seeing them! Now a new set of ads touting the features of Internet Explorer
8 are being released which are equally bizarre, but at least they are a
funny. Click here to see more.
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