Turn Off Your Screen Saver!

By Eric on June 25, 2008

I just did. Apparently, screen savers are not only outdated but bad for the environment to boot:

Whenever I crank out a list of helpful hints, one of the first items I include is this obvious but often overlooked gem of advice: Kill your stupid screen saver. In the good old days of tube monitors, screen savers such as those unforgettable flying toasters were invented to prevent burn-in, a permanent shadow branded into the phosphors of your monitor by a static image of, say, a spreadsheet that you left on your screen all weekend.

Well, flat-screen LCD monitors don’t burn in, so if you still have flying toasters or an endlessly looping slide show of your adorable niece and nephew, you’re behind the times. When you’re not sitting in front of your monitor it should be off off off.

There’s your interesting environmental factoid of the day. Won’t you disable your screen saver and help the environment?

(via Show Me Progress)

Tags: environment, screen savers

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