Green your computer
Ecofont is a free font that has lots of little holes in the letters, using less ink and therefore extending the life of your printer cartridge. You can download it at the link above; they claim it works best at 9- or 10-point size.
Blackle is Google, but with a black screen instead of white. Because it takes energy to produce the luminescence we see as the white screen when we go to Google, Blackle's creators reckoned you could save some energy if you just changed the color of the background. A simple, elegant notion. So far, they claim 1,010,466.263 Watt-hours have been saved by computer users who use their website over the traditional Google screen.Labels: environmental, tech
2 Comments:
Blackle will only work if you are using an old fashioned CRT monitor.
For LCDs, because they have a backlight that is always on, it requires more energy to make a black screen than a white one.
hypocentre, I'm glad for your update on that, because I didn't want to go all black!
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