Lots of Freebies Blog » reduce brightness http://www.lotsoffreebies.co.uk Free Stuff for the UK Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 F.lux – Better Lighting for your Computer http://www.lotsoffreebies.co.uk/2009/11/f-lux-better-lighting-for-your-computer/ http://www.lotsoffreebies.co.uk/2009/11/f-lux-better-lighting-for-your-computer/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:18:39 +0000 Christopher Shennan http://www.lotsoffreebies.co.uk/?p=330 Today I received a tweet from a friend taking about a piece of software they had come across called F.lux.  F.lux is supposed to make your computer easier to use by adjusting the colour of the display depending on the time of day so that when it is dark your computers display is not the blinding white you normally get.

I have just installed F.lux on to my Windows XP laptop (there are Mac OS X and linux versions too) and as it is about 8pm it has changed my display colour so it looks to have a hint of orange which seems quite warm and not nearly as painful to look at.

Now that I have been using F.lux for about an hour I do not really notice anything different, however I really notice how bright and painful the screen is to look at when I turn it off.  For that reason along I would say that F.lux is a must have for those who like to use their computers late at night, or first things in the morning before they get out of bed.

I have found over the last couple of weeks that the display of my computer at work is extremely bright after about 4pm and I imagine this is because it has got dark so I will be looking forward to installing F.lux on my work  computer tomorrow and see the difference come the end of the day.

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