Saving Money On Electricity

1. Keep your appliances clean and well maintained. Regular cleaning and maintenance keeps your appliances in top shape, hence, it will perform better and consumes lesser energy. Energy saved is money saved.
2. Have an annual checkup by a qualified service technician. This can reduce the appliance’s operating costs by as much as 20%, extend the life of the system, and improve its safety and air quality.
3. When using air conditioners, it is best to establish your comfort temperature, and then setting your thermostat at that level permanently. This will definitely save on electric bills because the air conditioning unit takes less energy to cool air four to five degrees than it does to cool air eight to ten degrees. 4. Replace any items that may have been 10 years or older already. Old appliances are most likely not at their optimum efficiency. By replacing them, your electric bills may be cut by half. 5. If you experience a power outage, make sure you turn off the switch on your appliances and allow time to pass before turning the appliances on again when the power returns. 6. In refrigerators, do not overstuff compartments with bottles and plastic containers. Cool air must circulate freely to avoid overworking the condenser. Also, try not to leave the door of your refrigerator as open as possible or open longer than what is needed. This will have the tendency to allow the cool air to break out. 7. Always try to look for the “energy saving” logo or notes whenever you buy your new appliances. Buying an appliance with a logo that states it consumes lower energy, it will definitely let you save more money on your electricity. 8. Always use energy saving lights or light bulbs. These energy saving lights or light bulbs usually last up to 12 times longer. Plus, energy saving light bulbs consume less energy. Hence, you will be able to save more money just by saving on electricity. 9. Use energy-saving facilities at home like energy-saving windows or energy-saving appliances. This will lessen the consumption of energy and, thus, will let you save on money. For instance, use a “double-glazed” window instead of the ordinary window. 10. Use insulators at home. This will not let the warm or cool air out, and vice-versa. Indeed, saving on electricity will definitely save more money.

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The latest, and possible best, electronic format

For years, companies have been working on ways to put a newspaper’s full content online the way it was meant to be seen in print. Usually that means converting the newspaper’s production files into Portable Document Format, or PDF. But PayperNews has developed an alternative that it says is easier to use and preserves the look and feel of the real paper, while adding some twists that take advantage of the online format.

"You can have a business model where people can pay for a subscription over the Internet only," says Tom Maessen, chief technology officer of the Dutch-based company.

The problem with PDF has been that the file sizes are unwieldy, especially when pictures are thrown into the mix. PDF reproductions of newspaper pages also tend to be lower-resolution than the actual printed pages, and sometimes the PDF version does not capture all the graphics that are on those pages, Maessen says.

"The only way to get the entire newspaper is to use TIFF-G4," the format used for the four-color press separations, Maessen says. PayperNews’ Digi-dition system scans the digital versions of those separations and, with the aid of human checkers, segments each page into clickable elements. Each small-scale page on the Web serves as a navigation device: When you click on an article, photo, graphic or advertisement, a larger version of that element pops onto the screen.

Even the ads are displayed in sharp resolution, and they can be made clickable to take the reader to the advertiser’s designated Web site. The elements of each page can be archived, then resold for a premium as newspaper clippings via a service called Digi-clips. Those elements also can be recombined to create new products, such as a "Historic Front Pages" book.