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

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.

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.

Beautiful chair and cot at NGV International, Melbourne

I argued the benefits of laziness at last week’s Victoria Mac User Group (iMUG) meeting and Garry was in the audience. We chatted afterwards and it seems the topic struck a cord.

Detail from Kim Hoa Tram's NGV International exhibit

Unicode support is important. Unicode support means that DssW licences can now include characters from any written language.

In the past we have had to issue licences with simplified, and in some cases mangled, name and organisation details. Limitations in our payment software meant we had to settle with a solution that worked well for the majority. Regretably, a few customers received licences where their details had to be simplfied.

Thankfully that is all in the past.

We felt it was essential for our resellers to be able to provide licences issued in their local written language. The software we built to power the DssW Authorised Reseller programme supports unicode from the ground up. Resellers can provide licences using any written language their customers need.

We use the same system as our resellers. Thus, like our resellers, DssW’s licences now support any written language.

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.

Cardboard chair, NGV International

Macworld clearly gets what we are trying to do with Power Manager 3. They appreciate that it does not suit single users but instead is ideal for managed Mac environments, like schools and businesses.

I love the buying advice:

Power Manager 3 isn’t an essential purchase for home users, but for offices and other organisations managing lots of Macs, it might just help save the world. Macworld team

I will discuss how laziness has affected the design of Mac OS X, and how laziness influences the design decisions behind DssW Power Manager.

CSIRAC – Australia's First Computer, Melbourne Museum

It will be fun to brush up on my public speaking skills, share some stories of those who have shaped Mac OS X, and get the chance to meet you in person.

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Thanks to iMUG’s president, Les Posen, for the invitation to speak.

Christopher recommended Power Manager 3 to Brian Silverman as a more capable replacement to Mac OS X’s built-in Energy Saver scheduler.

Green leaves.

“Unlike with Energy Saver, Power Manager 3 allows you to create schedules for any day and time of the week. Additionally it can handle a variety of tasks including startup, wake, sleep, log out, log in, restart, and shut down. You can also create one-time events.”
Christopher Breen, Macworld

“Power Manager is easy to configure, intuitive and does everything you expect it to do, and very well I might say. The best thing about Power Manager is that you only have to configure it once and then you can forget about it.”
Gabriela Ghinita, Softpedia

“When it comes to things I didn’t like about Power Manager, I can’t find anything to say.”
Gabriela Ghinita, Softpedia

Softpedia Very Good Award for Power Manager