Granola - Software that improves the energy efficiency of your PC or laptop

Granola makes computers more energy efficient without slowing them down. Granola is safe, easy to use, and allows your computer to operate with the performance of a Ferrari when speed counts but also with the efficiency of a Prius so you don't waste energy. Help save the world with Granola.

Granola is an intelligent software power management solution for x86 servers, laptops, and PCs running Linux and Microsoft Windows. Granola automatically optimizes a system to use energy more efficiently without compromising performance or availability. The Granola Power Management Daemon (see below) when installed on a server, laptop, or PC, matches the energy consumed by the system to the load on the system automatically. Granola typically lowers total system energy use by 10-35% even when a system is 100% utilized. Granola also tracks the energy saved for use in estimating cost savings and carbon emission reductions.

Key Features

• Energy savings without compromising performance and availability


• Supports x86 platforms running Linux and Microsoft Windows on physical/virtual servers


• Immediate energy saving for most deployments <5 years old


• User-level max, min, and auto energy and performance policy management


• User-level reporting of energy savings without additional hardware required


• No measurable overhead (<1%).


• Energy savings and software complimentary to consolidation techniques such as virtualization


• Installation takes less than 5 minutes on average


• Little to no maintenance

Key Benefits

• Reduce energy use


• No performance loss


• No additional hardware


• Improve battery life


• Reduce operational cost


• Reduce cooling cost


• Reduce carbon footprint


• FREE for personal use

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Multilingual virtual keyboard is available now in Google Search

You’ve spilled coffee on your keyboard. The a, e, i, o, u, and r keys have stopped working. Now try to search Google for the nearest computer repair shop. The pain of typing on this broken keyboard is similar to what many people searching in non-English languages feel when trying to type today. Typing searches on keyboards not designed for your languages can be frustrating, even impossible.
 

Research has shown that many people are more comfortable formulating search queries in their own language but have difficulty typing these queries into Google. (Try typing नमस्ते on a keyboard with English letters.) To overcome the difficulty they face in typing in their local language scripts, some people have resorted to copying and pasting from other sites and from online translation tools. But there’s an easier way — a virtual, or “on-screen” keyboard, lets you type directly in your local language script in an easy and consistent manner, no matter where you are or what computer you’re using.

Last year, to make text input easy for people across the globe, google introduced a virtual keyboard API through code.google.com. This allowed developers to enable virtual keyboards on any text field or text area in their webpages. Today, they are taking this effort one step further by integrating virtual keyboards into Google search in 35 languages.

If you use Google search in one of the languages listed below, you’ll see a small keyboard icon  show up next to the search field, on both the Google homepage and search results page. Clicking on that keyboard icon brings up a virtual keyboard in your language. You can input text by either clicking on the on-screen keyboard or pressing the corresponding key.

You can find out more information on how to use the virtual keyboard in google's help article. If you use Google in a language not listed below and feel that your language will benefit from a virtual keyboard, let google know by voting for your language. Google hope virtual keyboards help you find information more easily — especially those of you who speak/type/read in non-Latin scripts.





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reBlog from skepticdetective.wordpress.com: The Skeptic Detective

I found this fascinating quote today:

Yesterday I received an e-mail from a colleague with images of a five headed cobra supposedly found in “Kukke Subramanya, Near Mangalore, Karnataka, India”. The colleague in question seemed to believe that this is a real snake. Being of Indian descent she has been exposed to the idea of the five headed snake god Nagaraja, and she happily accepted that the snake in the e-mail is an earthly representation of the myth. Here are the pictures;skepticdetective.wordpress.com, The Skeptic Detective, Apr 2010

You should read the whole article.