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How many times you felt that the notebook battery would last a little bit longer? If you are on the move without any power source nearby, Notebook Hardware Control, a free utility helps you to optimize the system to use minimum power required to run it.

Once installed, NHC adds real-time monitors to the system tray, providing a continual readout of your current CPU frequency, hard drive load and more.

If you want to ensure your notebook’s battery power lasts as long as possible, you can use Notebook Hardware Control to dynamically switch your CPU’s multiplier, as required. By reducing your CPU speed when you don’t require its full potential, say, running a word processor, your system should consume less power.

This program can also monitor your notebook’s temperature and gives you a warning if it is overheating.

Main features of Notebook Hardware Control

    * NHC status section
    * NHC monitoring
    * CPU Speed Control

    * Custom dynamic switching
    * CPU Voltage Control
    * CPU stability check
    * ACPI control system
    * ACPI control system details
    * ACPI Thermal Zone information
    * Battery Information
    * Advanced Battery settings
    * Graphic Card Control
    * Hard Disk settings
    * Hard Drive SMART Information
    * NHC settings
    * NHC profile editor
    * NHC advanced settings

Be careful with the CPU voltage tab. Don’t tinker with it unless you knew what you are doing. Never run notebook in “Maximum Performance” for long as it may lead to overheating.

Download Notebook Hardware Control

Note:  you must have Microsoft’s .NET Framework Version 2.0 or newer installed.

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Don’t throw away your old PC’s.Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can now be used to power any PC’s left on your attic.

Sugar on a Stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a new look and access to collaborative educational software.It has been developed by Sugar Labs.

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The release could dramatically increase the use of the free software, which has until now been predominantly distributed with the XO laptop, the machine sold be OLPC.
Mr. Bender was formerly second in command at OLPC.

“It is also well-suited to slower, older PCs and low-powered netbooks,” said Mr Bender.

It has already been shown running on an Intel Classmate PC, one of the main rivals to the OLPC machines.

Mr. Bender went on to found Sugar Labs, an independent effort to develop the software and interface used on the OLPC machines.

The interface emphasises collaborative learning, allowing children to share material between different machines. For example, they can write documents or make music together.

The open source software also contains a journal and automatically saves and backs up all data.

It has been used by more than one million children on the XO laptop and has also been released as part of other operating systems. For example, it was bundled with releases of the Ubuntu and Fedora Linux systems.

The latest release – Sugar on a Stick – allows anyone to run the software from a 1GB USB stick. It includes 40 programs, including a word processor, drawing application and games.

It can be downloaded for free from the Sugar Labs website.

It can be run on Linux machines, as well as Macs and Windows PCs. Recent Mac users must use an additional CD, whilst Windows users must run Sugar through virtualisation progam.

Source: BBC

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DriveGLEAM is a free utility which indicates read/write activity for your hard drives in the system notification area (also known as the system tray). It also supports output via the parallel port so that you can for example use a red led for write and a green led for read access.

Features:

• Monitor physical disks or partitions (or both)
• Allows for CPU, RAM , VRAM usage display in tray.
• Read / Write / ReadWrite and Idle status indicators
• Indicators in tray or the parallel port, output directly to LED’s, Just place some LED’s on top of your monitor and enjoy real monitoring of read/write status realtime 😉 (no special hardware required)
• Keyboard scroll lock LED option.
• Uses very few resources (including cpu usage)
• Very stable.
• Does not "hook" into your system
• Standalone, does not require a install.

  When you are in a work group where other systems are accessing your shared files, you can easily find out which is accessed the most

Download DriveGLEAM for:

Windows XP

Windows 2000

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