Version 1.2 of the Simple Twitter Link plugin has been launched!

This update includes an ability to change the URL shortening service from TinyURL. At the moment you can also choose from is.gd, snipr and tr.im, but let me know of any others that you’d like adding and I’ll add them on!

Full details can be found on the plugin’s dedicated page.

+Extract is a great piece of software that will extract free-to-air programmes from a Sky HD to your PC.

The author wasn’t planning on any further releases but changed his mind so that it could support drives over 500GB in size (which is possible, thanks to Copy+). And, whilst he was at it, he fixed some bugs, made some performance enhancements and gave the GUI a spruce-up.

Not bad for free software… but please donate if you like it.

As standard, Windows will poll USB devices once every 1ms. However, this can cause the issue of laptops unable to enter the C3 processor power-saving state. By increasing the USB polling interval from 1ms to 5ms the processor can enter a C3 power-saving state during its inactivity.

There are also suggestions that decreasing the polling rate will also save energy generally. I’m not sure.

But, anyway, until I hear that all of this is some kind of urban myth, I’m willing to give it a try.

Here’s a couple of scripts (save them with .reg extensions and run them as required) that I rattled off to activate the “idle” (5ms) and also to return to “normal” (1ms)…

Activate Idle Polling Interval…

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}\0000]
"IdleEnable"=dword:00000001

Deactivate Idle Polling Interval…

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}\0000]
"IdleEnable"=-

Or download them from here.