For people that surf the net in the dark (eye strain)

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I seriously recommend a programme called f.lux, http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

I can't express how effective this little app is, I presume many on here like me surf the net in quite a low lit room, sometimes for hours at a time, I'm someone that gets headaches quite a lot, usually due to eye strain/tension, I've been testing this programme on and off now for a good couple of years and using this app cuts down my headaches by at least 80%.

Basically it changes the colour temperature of your screen/s to a warm hue that is a lot easier on the eyes, now many people may think that they don't require an app like this as they personally don't feel as if their eyes are being strained, but as an experiment if your in a low lit room and you've been surfing the net for a while try loading up the app and stare at the screen while it slowly changes the temperature, you really feel your eyes relaxing, really feels good, it's like when you don't realise your shoulders are tense until think about them.

You can set the warmth of the display, your location for enabling it to activate automatically at sundown, or you can have it on at all times if you desire, and for those that require a correct colour profile for photo-editing etc there is an easy to access 'disable for an hour' option available by right clicking the task bar icon.

 

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Although it may be doing some good if you are experiencing eye strain I would suggest that you get an eye test. Quite frankly I would have thought that it would be more beneficial to have a brighter room than to mess around with monitor colour settings and sit in a dark environment.

I agree but I much prefer low lit ambient lighting, and this app makes it so that you don't have have to mess around with colour settings, it does it all for you at a click of a button.

 

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The colour (temperature) may be little strange to get used to at first, but it doesn't take long before it feels normal, and then when you disable it's like , sun in your face

 

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Am installing.

How does it affect gaming, out of interest?

Most people seem to say it's fine but I've had mixed results so I normally disable it for gaming, 99% of the games that I tried will also have their temperature profile adjusted while running the app, but the problem I found was it would introduce a very slight micro stutter about every second while gaming, although that being said other people have said that they don't experience that problem so I guess it depends on your setup/drivers etc.

I use a mac, so it automatically darkens/lightens for me depending on how bright the room is

I'm not sure how the mac does it but it is usually better that the 'temperature' is changed rather than the brightness lowered as that way you can still easily see everything, changing the temperature isn't the same as lowering your brightness.