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hey everybody today I'm going to show you how you can save the world by doing very little actually you've probably got a computer or phone because it's 2015 and there's a chance you care about technology because you're at seeing that any way you can volunteer some of that spare processing power for the greater good first up download bow ink manager oboe ink stands for berkeley open infrastructure for networked computing the app is available on windows mac linux and android it's an open source software for volunteer computing and many different projects are built on it you open up BOINC manager you'll see this window where you can add a project the first one I want to spotlight is the Rosetta at home project it's run by the University of Washington and it models new proteins to take on diseases like Alzheimer's cancer HIV and malaria select Rosetta at home for the manager and then set up an account the next time you're not using your computer Rosetta at home will run and help a great cause what happens is thousands of computers are working as one by aggregating the power of these separate machines progress can be made on these projects a lot faster what about your machine will it get slowed down by Boeing projects no on a computer BOINC is installed as a screensaver so when your machine's not busy it will run ball weights requirements are also pretty low you can use a Windows machine with a 500 megahertz processor max only need to be a powerpc g3 or higher you can also run some of these projects on an Android device to set up similar installed the boinc app and select a project this time let's search for extraterrestrial life with steady at home it searches through data from a radio telescope to find signs of life millions of people are a part of steady at home right now maybe your machine is the tipping point to finding aliens these are just two of the projects you can contribute to here's some more that use BOINC check out mine modeling at home which tries to make sense of the human mind a world community grid where you can take on a number of sub projects including mapping cancer markers making solar technology more efficient and decoding genomes from a wide variety of organisms there you have it how to make your world a better place by being generous with your processor for more how to's like this check out how to tune a calm Amaya's after and i'll see you next time you