#172 Some Flux

Are you the sort of person who uses a computer? And are you the sort of person that can have difficulty getting to sleep? I stumbled across F.lux, a simple programme that automatically adjusts the temperature of the colour on the screen, adjusting it to the time of day resulting in less strain on the eyes and it could help you get to sleep better.

Since computer monitors are basically meant to replicate the sun in their performance in colour management, at night they can blind you for being too ‘white’. F.lux, changes the colour temperature to be yellower or more sepia reducing stress on the eyes.

Whilst I cannot say for sure if it works or not at the moment as I have only been using it for a few days, it definitely does change the colour balance, but if you are working on the computer, you won’t really notice it at all as it is done gradually.

Below is a screenshot of the preference window, I can’t show what the colour difference is between midday and midnight as that can’t be captured in a screenshot. For those interested, here is a link to the F.lux website: Here

#157 More IOGraphs

Some more IOGraphs. The first one is 2.1 hours, done last night. Just light internet browsing:

The next one is 6.5 hours worth from almost a whole days worth of computering. I turned the mouse stops off (the circles in the other IOGraphs) and it gives a different kind of image all together. Activities on this one included some light photoshopping, and light internet browsing. I turned the background on whilst saving it too so you can roughly see where abouts on the screen I was moving a bit clearer.

#141 Hello Mr Jones

It was my 21st birthday a few days ago. This is one of the things I received. A Mr Jones Cyclops Special Edition Watch. And what a beautiful thing it is too.

The only way to tell the time on it is by looking where the red circle is in relation to the 12 dots around it. In the day or so of having it on my wrist, I am getting more and more accurate at telling the time with it, but it certainly isn’t no stopwatch! It is a big difference to my old watch, which I should add, I will still use from time to time, mainly in that it fits properly on my wrist unlike my old one which was very loose… and was silver…. and was larger…

In a while, I may write something a bit more constructive about it, or its design or whatever, but what I have written today will be sufficient for the moment.

For those that are interested in more, here is the Mr Jones Watches website: here

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