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Pros : Easily adjusts the power consumption of your PC's processor. Works in the background, without you thinking of it. Simple, no-nonsense interface. Lets you monitor your electric cost savings. Can extend battery life for 30 to 60 minutes more. Cons : Needs PC to be at least 6 to 7 years old. May conflict with battery-monitoring software. Needs administrator access to view electric savings. May crash on Windows XP. Summary : Granola has been on my PC (a Dell Latitude D420 running Windows XP SP3) for at least 5 months now, and I am very satisfied with its performance. I found this program over the Web while finding a program that would make my laptop battery last even longer. When I installed the program, all I saw was a simple, unobtrusive dialog box calculating the savings I would get from using this program, including cost savings, energy savings and carbon savings. As of this writing, I will save about US $ 38.00 for a year. That's enough to pay 1 month of my famil...

Sinabe ko na nga ba... Windows is as evil as Mac! Nang sumulpot si Linux in the computing world, with its many distributions or flavors, biglang naiba ang pananaw ng maraming mamamayan sa paggamit sa personal computer sa kanilang sari-saring pamumuhay. Sumulpot ang maraming Free and Open-Source Software na naging pang-kiliti ng masa sa kasalukuyan katulad ng Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Audacity, at iba pa . At habang nangyari ang mga ito, Windows was having thoughts to partner up with Mac due to the increasing competition against the FOSS movement. So they did. Kahit pangit pa rin tingnan ang Windows 7 at kahit nakaklula ang mga graphics ng Mac OS X 10.7 Snow Leopard, they are still closed-source, proprietary software!  Linux, along with its FOSS peers, is persecuted by the increasing aggressiveness of proprietary software providers - bilking users of their freedoms and their money. While these worldviews of these major operating systems differ, there i...