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Reduce your computer's electric use with LocalCooling
Basically, LocalCooling scans your hardware and figures out how many watts your monitor, hard drives, CPU, graphics card, and other peripherals are probably using. Once the program has this estimate, it can also track how much energy you're saving by adjusting your power saving settings to do things like shut off yourmonitor, hard drives, or PC when you're not using them.
You can also create an account to track your energy savings against other users, or create teams to compete against other groups of LocalCooling users if you want to get all competitive about it.
[via gHacks]
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Subscribe to commentsChristianApr 1st 2008 7:23PM
it'd be nice if they have a gadget or a sideshow version of this app for Vista.
harmxApr 1st 2008 8:38PM
It's a pretty nice app for those that want a quick setup; I think I mentioned this over on Lifehacker last year ;)
http://tinyurl.com/29jfms
JeffApr 1st 2008 10:21PM
Garbage!
Try uninstalling this program and let me know how much trouble you've had. Any program that can't remove itself properly is not worth using and hardly adds to the developers credibility.
Brad LinderApr 1st 2008 10:25PM
You need to keep the installer file around in order to uninstall this program. It's admittedly a little odd, but if you've already deleted the installer, it's a free download so you can always grab it again from the web site. But yeah, they really should improve this.
Leo F. SwiontekApr 2nd 2008 9:50AM
I hope the above mentioned will work out.Kindly give some more related information & example of trials performed.
Hilary RogersApr 2nd 2008 8:38AM
Hi Everyone,
Hilary here - I'm on the LocalCooling team. I have read the comments here. If you have any questions or issues about the application, please contact our technical support helpdesk by using the following link:
http://www.liutilities.com/support/ticket/
We will respond to you ASAP.
Regards
Hilary Rogers
Uniblue Systems Ltd
Hilary RogersApr 8th 2008 3:54AM
Hi there Christian,
I'm from the LocalCooling team. Thanks for your suggestion - we're always interested in hearing feedback and suggestions from users.
If you need any further information or have a query, you can contact our support team from here:
http://www.liutilities.com/support/ticket/
Regards
Hilary
RobotochanApr 2nd 2008 8:40AM
It doesn't seem to do anything that Notebook Hardware Control doesn't but looks cool for Desktops :)
varunApr 2nd 2008 11:13AM
Doesn't work. It estimated my 13.3" Core Duo T2080 laptop which has a 65W power supply is using 145W of power and has a 21" LCD monitor. With the optimized settings, it suggested that I'd save 65W of power, meaning it'd still be using 80W or so of power. Neither of those figures is realistic.
On my desktop it estimated the Athlon64-based machine connected to a 17" monitor was using 850W of power.
And it doesn't give you any options to change those settings - so it's impossible to get any meaningful savings information.
And it's installer refuses to let you uninstall it if you delete the installer. Smells like crudware capitalizing on the desire to save the planet.
BubbaJudgeApr 3rd 2008 12:19PM
and it sounds like you stomp kittens to get back at your abusive parents. chill out, get some meds, and learn like most people that have more than 6 months around PCs that you always save an uninstaller file.
This is a great program idea and I hope they succeed at widespread usage, as I see tremendous energy waste in the provate and govt business sectors and have fought to get users to quit being pigs.
aanidaaniApr 2nd 2008 5:07PM
I don't know about other people's estimates, but my power consumption estimate of 170 W seems pretty reasonable.
GeorgeApr 3rd 2008 6:37AM
I installed local cooling just 5 hrs back. When I rebooted the system, it would load till the Login screen and after logging in it would crash! I had to go through safe mode and uninstall Localcooling. After that it started working fine.