If your day is anything like mine, you spend a lot of time looking at your computer screen, sometimes late into the night. The glow from your monitor can make your eyes think that it is daytime, even at 10:00 at night. This can make it more difficult to get to sleep when you do finally turn in for the night.
Fortunately, there is a program that can solve this problem. F.lux is a program that will adjust your monitor's brightness based on the current time. After you enter your location, your monitor will gradually brighten throughout the morning, and then dim as the sun goes down in the evening.
The f.lux icon will sit in your taskbar so that it will be easy to disable it if you need to do color-sensitive work on your computer. If you need to do photo or video editing, you can quickly disable it for one hour, or if you want to watch a movie, you can put it into movie mode, which disables it for 2 1/2 hours. If you know you will be working on a project for a long time, you can also choose to disable it until the next day.
I can tell you from personal experience that this program works for those who use a monitor for long periods of time. Since both of my jobs require heavy use of my eyes, I have had eyestrain problems for several years. However, since installing f.lux, I have found that my eyestrain has decreased.
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