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f.lux™ Better lighting…for your computer.

Windows/ Mac/ Linux

This might not be for everyone, but if you use your computer at night (as I do), you should check this out:

“Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or have you ever woken up, ready to write down the Next Great Idea, only to 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.”

More info/ free download





Speed Up System Boot Time in Windows With Soluto

Soluto tracks all the applications in your system boot process, and tells you exactly which ones are slowing you down. It then allows you to easily drill down into the list of processes to see exact times for each one. To make it easier for the layman to understand what processes can be removed, the applications are grouped into “No-brainer” or “Potentially removable” groups.

www.soluto.com.

Via lifehacker.com.





Make a Bootable Copy of Snow Leopard Install DVD

Requirements: a dual-layer DVD burner and a blank dual-layer DVD.

1. Insert your Snow Leopard DVD.
2. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app.
3. In the left side of the window, select the “Mac OS X Install DVD”.
4. Click “New Image” from the Disk Utility toolbar and select where you want to save the temporary image. For “Image Format”, choose “DVD/CD master” and for “Encryption”, choose “none”.
5. The image extension in the “Save As” box will be .cdr (this is what you want) — click “Save”.
6. Once the temporary image is created, it will show up on the left side of the Disk Utility window. Select it.
7. Insert a blank dual-layer DVD (I prefer Verbatim DVD+R DL discs).
8. Click “Burn” from the Disk Utility toolbar.

Via WalterJessen.com





   
 

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