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Thanks to Jaymi Heimbuch, planet green, Discovery Channel, for recommending Power Manager. Jaymi lists DssW Power Manager as a easy solution for reducing the power consumption of your computer.

Planet Green, Discovery Channel

Even in sleep mode, computers use up a lot of energy. But there are easy solutions—even easier than having an eco-button—for sending your computer into sleep mode more quickly to cut back on its energy consumption, or shutting it down altogether at a scheduled time so that phantom power is avoided.
Jaymi Heimbuch, Planet Green, Discovery Channel

You can download and try Power Manager for free for thirty days.

Great news for Canadian BC Hydro business customers. BC Hydro have added DssW Power Manager to their Product Incentive Programme (PIP).

DssW Power Manager join’s BC Hydro Product Incentive Programme

As a BC Hydro business customer, you can now purchase DssW Power Manager with an effective rebate of $6 CAD per Mac. This incentive programme is run by BC Hydro to promote the use of energy saving technology.

To qualify for BC Hydro’s incentive, you must purchase your DssW Power Manager licences through your local DssW Authorised Reseller, Macinhome.

For those keeping track, we celebrated this news with homemade chocolate cupcakes.

Thanks to Garry Barker, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, for the fun write up of my “Mac’s Lazy Design” talk.

Beautiful chair and cot at NGV International, Melbourne

I argued the benefits of laziness at last week’s Victoria Mac User Group (iMUG) meeting and Garry was in the audience. We chatted afterwards and it seems the topic struck a cord.

Thanks to last weekend’s launch of the DssW Authorised Reseller programme, all future DssW purchases will now support unicode names and organisation details.

Detail from Kim Hoa Tram's NGV International exhibit

Unicode support is important. Unicode support means that DssW licences can now include characters from any written language.

In the past we have had to issue licences with simplified, and in some cases mangled, name and organisation details. Limitations in our payment software meant we had to settle with a solution that worked well for the majority. Regretably, a few customers received licences where their details had to be simplfied.

Thankfully that is all in the past.

We felt it was essential for our resellers to be able to provide licences issued in their local written language. The software we built to power the DssW Authorised Reseller programme supports unicode from the ground up. Resellers can provide licences using any written language their customers need.

We use the same system as our resellers. Thus, like our resellers, DssW’s licences now support any written language.