At work I spend most of my time looking at a computer screen. At home I also spend most of my time looking at a computer screen. Basically: I spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen. Recently I’ve been looking for ways to make this as pleasant as possible. So far I’ve come up with the following:
- I’ve installed bias lighting after reading this.
- From the same article I found out Windows 7 has a built-in screen setup procedure in the media center app (it turns out LCD factory settings are on “eye scorching brightness”).
- Work in progress: getting a new set of hi-res screens at work. See point 9 on The Joel Test.
- Changing my monospace font to one in this top 10 list. Courier New is apparently almost as bad as Comic Sans.
- I’m also experimenting with inverted color schemes for my programming tools: C# and JavaScript disguised as Ruby!
In the next few months there will be more changes to my setup, most likely. First up would be a second LCD, although I can’t seem to decide if I want the exact same monitor twice, or perhaps a different one next to my HD one. Either way, so far these changes were more than welcome: can’t imagine how I got along without them.
Interested? Go for it! Show your eyes some love!