Blog Action Day [blogactionday.com] is highly supported by Feed Elite. The goal of this project is for thousands of bloggers worldwide to dedicate one day to the issue of our environment. Therefore, this year, Feed Elite also participates.

A way to save energy:

For all those who have CRT screens, there is a major difference between the energy consumption of a black, dark colored screen than a light, white screen. Therefore, to save energy, it is best to keep your screen as dark as possible. To achieve this, there are several techniques. Blackle.com offers a Google based search engine in a full black mode. It is a very popular “Green Website.” You can also keep the color of your wallpaper and Windows theme as dark as possible. However, the most economical way is to simply turn off your monitor.

A way to save paper:

Personally, I always double side print my documents. Although this may not seam important, this technique, over time actually saves quite a considerable amount of paper. The simplest way to double print your document is to first print all the odd pages and then flip your paper and print all your even pages. This is much easier than the flip-paper-every-time technique. Be smart and double side print your documents so that you can save paper and lighten the weight of your projects or binders.

This year, do something different and take the first steps to caring for our environment. This year, join us in the celebration of Blog Action Day on the 15th of October! [Blog Action Day]

Hard drive disk partitioning is one action that you should not avoid. It helps you organize your data and can avoid major catastrophes, such as loosing all your precious data.

To those who do not understand partitioning, read the Wikipedia article Disk Partitioning [Wikipedia]. A partition is basically an organized sector on your hard drive acting like a single drive. For instance, C: is the most popular Local Disk partition. Many people also have D: as a back up drive/partition. When you partition (verb) your hard drive, you are splitting up your disk into more drives.

What’s the purpose of this? Many:

1.) Prevent Catastrophes- Most of us have already experienced computer failures in combination with huge data loss. If you haven’t, you’re either really really really lucky, or… I don’t know why else you haven’t had failures… But anyways, partitioning your disk can prevent such problems. By separating your precious data, such as pictures, from your Windows drive (usually C:), you can avoid the failure of Windows affecting your pictures. Basically, if your Windows goes bizark and corrupts, it can not harm data on another partition. Thus, you would be able to boot up with, say, a live Linux CD and then copy all your safe data in that nice little partition you made. Read the rest of this entry »