Auto Turn Off Your Monitor And Save Energy

This coming Saturday, March 27 2010, the world will again observe Earth Hour when homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Although the main goal of the event is to work together to create a sustainable low carbon future for our planet, it is also undeniably helpful to save a considerable amount of energy for 1 hour. Now if you want a long term plan to save energy for your home and business then you can by starting on your computer. Most computer users leaves their computer by locking its session but forget to perform a important energy saving task: turning off the computer monitor.

To help you to regularly perform this action, you can install Monitor Energy Saver (MonitorES). It is a small windows utility that helps you turnoff your monitor display when you lock down your machine. The app also will pause all your running media programs & set your IM status message to "Away" and restore it back to normal when you back.



MonitorES helps you save the environment and save some money on the next energy bill by reducing the amount of energy your computer systems consumes. The app is available in portable version that you can bring along with your thumb drive. It currently works on Windows and Ubuntu machines.

Download MonitorES via [Codeplex]

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