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  2. Unplug These Appliances That Hike Up Your Electricity Bill - AOL

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    Only keep a heated towel rack plugged in during the time around your shower, and unplug it after use. Save More: 23 Secret Ways To Save Money on Amazon Sasha_Suzi / Getty Images/iStockphoto

  3. 12 Household Appliances You Should Unplug to Save Money

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    If you're like the typical American, you've probably got about 40 household appliances that you routinely leave plugged in – even when these devices aren't actively being used. But did you ...

  4. Should You Ever Work During Your Vacation? Pros and ... - AOL

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    Vicki Salemi, a career expert with Monster, notes that if you do decide to stay plugged in during your vacation, this should be because you choose to — not because your employer expects you to.

  5. Standby power - Wikipedia

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    Unused features may be disabled in the computer's BIOS setup to save power. Devices were introduced in 2010 that allow the remote controller for equipment to be used to totally switch off power to everything plugged into a power strip. It was claimed in the UK that this could save £30, more than the price of the device, in one year. [33]

  6. AC adapter - Wikipedia

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    When a laptop computer is operated while recharging, the integrated circuitry which controls the charging makes use of a power supply unit's remaining electrical current capacity. This allows supplying the device's components with power during usage while maintaining an uncompromised constant charging speed.

  7. Sleep mode - Wikipedia

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    Wake-on-LAN (WoL or WOL) [a] is an Ethernet or Token Ring computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or awakened from sleep mode by a network message. The message is usually sent to the target computer by a program executed on a device connected to the same local area network (LAN).

  8. The phone charging mistakes that are killing your battery ...

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    Congratulations if you have the mental resilience to keep your charge on the lower end of that spectrum. The mere thought is making me anxious. Most new phones now have built-in battery management ...

  9. ReadyBoost - Wikipedia

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    When a compatible device is plugged in, the Windows AutoPlay dialog offers an additional option to use the flash drive to speed up the system; an additional ReadyBoost tab is added to the drive's properties dialog where the amount of space to be used can be configured. [4] The minimum cache size is 250 MB.