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If you could take 7 million cars off the road, do you think it would have a positive impact on the environment and energy use? If that doesn't sound like much, how about planting 900 million trees? Or tearing down 65 coal-fired power plants? That's what MiserWare claims Granola, its free power management tool, would save the equivalent of if every PC in the world used it to reduce their current energy use by just 10 percent. Granola uses dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to throttle back your computer's power use when its load is low. … Read more

TubeMaster Plus seems like a good idea: find video and MP3 content, download it, and convert it to different formats. But the program's poorly thought-out interface and application instability will likely frustrate everyone but the most persevering.

TubeMaster Plus comes with numerous settings, such as an autostart feature, size restriction (helpful for excluding small downloads that are more likely to be advertisements), language, and browser monitoring. You can set the video codec to be used as well as the MP3 quality and default multimedia player. The program is organized into four tabs: Media Surf (a Web browser), Media Download … Read more