The Pain: Have you ever woken up at night for a sudden need to use your computer, and when you open up your computer you get blinded by the glow of its screen? As a content writer, I am often awakened by great ideas. Quickly, I then go in front of my computer to write it down before I forget about it… Only to be interrupted by the bright glow my computer, I have to wait a couple of minutes for my eyes to recover and then turn on the lights to even out the brightness. This is because LCD screens are designed and patterned to match the sun’s intensity. That is why it looks best during the day, but during the dark time of the day it hurts our eyes.
Solution:
F.lux – is a very useful application that automatically controls your screen temperature and colors with differet variations throught different times of the day. The idea is to match your screen with the sun’s intensity.
Benefits:
- Lower down eyes stress – Personally, I believe this is applicable only if you use your computer at night often or if your room relies mostly on sunlight for lighting. Matching the colors of your screen with the sun is a very healthy and effective way to protect yourself from your computer screen.
- Improve sleep – our biological clock is constant throughout the day. If we suddenly wakeup at night and we use our computer for a while, tendency is you will not be able to go to back to sleep immediately as we already have interrupted our body’s clock with you computer’s screen sunlight effect. For more information about sleep research click here.
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Downloads:
Xp or Vista | Macintosh | Linux
