Since publishing Energy Saver Best Practices three years ago, Apple has reorganized settings related to display and computer sleep. The company has also built new Macs that more efficiently manage energy usage and make shutdown less necessary for conservation — so much so that the newest Mac mini moves the power button to the [...]
What’s the first thing you notice about the app icons in the home screen images shown below? iOS 18 adds several advancements to customizing your iPhone and iPad home screens, including changing the style and color of app icons. Stepping beyond the basics I presented in Reorganize Your Apps, you can now also remove [...]
Are you someone whose gaze doesn’t regularly notice that your battery charge is getting low? Do you tend to run your batteries down to zero, beyond when the device either warns you or stops responding and then abruptly turns off? I previously wrote about iPhone batteries in Battery Health & Repair and Maximize Battery [...]
For most remote coaching and support sessions, I use Zoom (zoom.us), an excellent application that offers stable audio and video meetings with end-to-end encryption and secure screen sharing. I was an early adopter of the platform in 2013 when Google Hangouts was getting too playful and no longer serving my grad school team project [...]
Welcome to the new Sustainable Computing website! Thanks to the team at Two Hats Consulting for excellent brand strategy, design, and development work over the last three months that brought this new edition to life. More than just a facelift, this site offers a succinct and effective encapsulation of who I am, what I offer, and [...]
Sustainable Computing is honored to receive Top Pro recognition yet again in 2019! Top Pros are among the highest-rated, most popular professionals on Thumbtack. There are pros — and then there are Top Pros. Only about 4% of Thumbtack professionals currently qualify for Top Pro status. What do you have to do to become a [...]
