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]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-01-2008 @ 7:23PM
Christian said...
it'd be nice if they have a gadget or a sideshow version of this app for Vista.
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4-01-2008 @ 8:38PM
harmx said...
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
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4-01-2008 @ 10:21PM
Jeff said...
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.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:25PM
Brad Linder said...
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.
4-02-2008 @ 8:38AM
Hilary Rogers said...
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
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4-02-2008 @ 8:40AM
Robotochan said...
It doesn't seem to do anything that Notebook Hardware Control doesn't but looks cool for Desktops :)
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4-02-2008 @ 9:50AM
Leo F. Swiontek said...
I hope the above mentioned will work out.Kindly give some more related information & example of trials performed.
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4-02-2008 @ 11:13AM
varun said...
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.
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4-03-2008 @ 12:19PM
BubbaJudge said...
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.
4-02-2008 @ 5:07PM
aanidaani said...
I don't know about other people's estimates, but my power consumption estimate of 170 W seems pretty reasonable.
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4-03-2008 @ 6:37AM
George said...
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.
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4-08-2008 @ 3:54AM
Hilary Rogers said...
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
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