Thanks to Michael Gowan, Macworld.com, for recommending Power Manager and Energy Schedule. Michael’s article talks about greener computing and provides tips on how to save energy and money.

There are two really good reasons to practice green computing: It saves you money, and—bit by bit—it helps save the planet. It’s a major win-win. Here are just a few of the little things you can do to make a big difference.
Michael Gowan, Macworld.com

Thanks to Jaymi Heimbuch, planet green, Discovery Channel, for recommending Power Manager. Jaymi lists DssW Power Manager as a easy solution for reducing the power consumption of your computer.

Planet Green, Discovery Channel

Even in sleep mode, computers use up a lot of energy. But there are easy solutions—even easier than having an eco-button—for sending your computer into sleep mode more quickly to cut back on its energy consumption, or shutting it down altogether at a scheduled time so that phantom power is avoided.
Jaymi Heimbuch, Planet Green, Discovery Channel

You can download and try Power Manager for free for thirty days.

Great news for Canadian BC Hydro business customers. BC Hydro have added DssW Power Manager to their Product Incentive Programme (PIP).

DssW Power Manager join’s BC Hydro Product Incentive Programme

As a BC Hydro business customer, you can now purchase DssW Power Manager with an effective rebate of $6 CAD per Mac. This incentive programme is run by BC Hydro to promote the use of energy saving technology.

To qualify for BC Hydro’s incentive, you must purchase your DssW Power Manager licences through your local DssW Authorised Reseller, Macinhome.

For those keeping track, we celebrated this news with homemade chocolate cupcakes.

Over the weekend we launched our DssW Authorised Reseller programme. This programme makes it easier for you, our business and academic users, to purchase DssW solutions.

Helen Bray's handmade Tiffany lamp

Easier because purchasing software from within an organisation can often be difficult and time consuming. Many organisations have strict purchasing protocols and procedures that need to be followed. Others have restricted suppliers and can only deal with specific resellers.

Those barriers have been reduced or removed entirely.

You can now ask your prefered software supplier to sign up as a DssW Authorised Reseller. For your supplier it is a clear pay-as-you-go deal with access to exclusive resale licences. For you for it means dealing with people you know and who know your organisation’s needs.

Through a DssW Authorised Reseller, you can purchase DssW solutions in your local currency and get great licence deals not available directly from us.

Exclusive reseller licence deals include fixed cost Power Manager packs for:

• 25, 50, and 75 Mac small-to-medium enterprise environments;
• Classroom and academic lab licences;
• School licences.

These packs offer great value and are designed to make purchasing for your organisation easy, affordable, and smart.

If you are thinking of deploying an energy saving solution within your organisation, you should be talking to your friendly technical contacts about DssW today.