Goodbye screen savers!

Remember how we all started using screen savers and felt we were doing our bit to preserve our computer monitors. So we watched the flying saucers or bricks in an endless line and thought we were preventing burn in of our monitor. That was the time when we had tube monitors. Now there are no more burn ins. Flat LCD monitors don’t burn and if you are still looking at flying saucers or that slide show of last years party you are way behind the times. When you are not sitting in front of the monitor just switch it off.

Telstra, the big phone company in Australia removed all corporate screen savers from some thirty five thousand office computers. They say the change will cut tons of carbon dioxide emission which is equal to taking 140 cars off the road for a year. Good for them!

So let those flying saucers crash!