F.lux: Control Your Computer’s Inner Glow
Do you spend too much time at your computer, sometimes working at first light and again at midnight? The harsh glare of a computer screen may make your eyes tired and mess up your brain’s view of day and night.
F.lux is a tiny little download that helps change the glow of your computer based on the time of day. Just install the executable, put in your time zone and let F.lux do its thing. It will help your screen mimic the light in the room you’re in, thus relieving your tired eyes. My fabulous assistant, Claire, loves it.
F.lux: control your screen brightness settings automatically.
Want more ergonomic aid? Check out this tool that takes you through a 15-minute ergonomic questionnaire.
Dropbox: Store, Share and Sync Your Files
It’s about time I profile Dropbox, a great little tool my readers have mentioned several times, and it came up again when I was presenting “Free and Low-Cost Tech Tools Your Organization Can’t Live Without” at the Fancy Food Show this week.
Dropbox allows you to synchronize your files among your computers and also stores them online for access anywhere. This is a fantastic application for those of us who travel and don’t want to deal with throwing files on thumb drives. Its storage capacity matches Mozy.com for backups and its feature set is on par with Live Mesh.
You receive two gigs of storage with the free version, and 50 is only $9.99 a month.
Dropbox – Home – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
OmniDazzle: Add awesome special effects to presentations
OmniDazzle is a free special effects tool for presentations. Lucky Mac users can download the software to add cool ways to highlight screens, words and points during presentations. Oh how I wish we poor PC users had a similar version! I have a presentation this week in San Francisco, and I would love to use this tool to make my favorite tools pop!
