I've returned to two pieces of software I thought I'd share, because one requires some convincing for people to hop on.
This would be
f.lux ; right from the page :
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?
During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.
F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.
Let me tell you it works. Being someone who spends too much time in front of screens (from iPhone to iPod to Mac) - the difference after just an hour of usage was noticeable. I think it also helped me sleep better (the last two days I've used it). I spend less time staring at the ceiling it seems (this is different from having an outrageous sleep pattern mind you). Eye strain reduced too. And for color sensitive work (photography, you know) you can temporarily disable it.
So try it out, see if it works for you.
The second one I came back to was
dropbox.
I'm a storage geek, so trust me on this one. I have my personal
drop.io and
box.net premium accounts and I use them quite regularly (intensively when I do) but it always bugged me to have to open up Safari to upload. Dropbox is drag-drop-forget, once you put it in there, its gone, and when I head down to the labs I know it is, just log on, it will zip it up and there's the download. Its worth having it running in the background just for this convenience.
Dropbox shines when you have multiple computers. Which I don't, but you might.
So, just some random things. A lot of things are happening. And I'm quite the busy fellow. And these are two of the things helping me chug along sanely.
