Manage Time in Front of a Computer Screen with Eyes Relax
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 6:01 am
One of the primary reasons of work-related stress is sitting in-front of the computer for several hours without taking a break. This causes not only eye strain, but also dry eye, teary eye, blurred vision, and worse- glaucoma.
It can also give you headaches, physical exhaustion, dizziness, and shoulder and neck pains. You can remedy this by resting for several minutes. But it would be even better if there was someone or something to remind us.
The Eyes Relax program is package software — it has an alarm, timer, parents mode profiler, screen locker, and of course, a work and break time reminder. This tool has all what it takes to easily manage and customize your work and break times.
Eyes Relax can be downloaded for free at http://themech.net/eyesrelax. You can download either the installer or the zip file. For this review, we will select the installer edition.
Save the file in your computer.
When the downloading is finished, launch the installer.
If you’re incited with a security warning (common on most web browsers), just click the Run button.
This is the Setup Wizard. Follow all its setup procedures.
When the installation is complete, check the Launch Eyes Relax when setup exits checkbox and then press Finish.
This is the program’s main interface.
To enter your own Short breaks entries, input your selection on the boxes provided. The Work time is the amount of work-minutes you intend to have, while the Break time is the total number of break you want in seconds.
If you wish to change some of Eyes Relax’s default settings, press the Configure button.
In here, you can alter the Break Type, Notification, and Sounds of the program. As an example, we will change here the Blank screen color to green. This will be triggered once the break time is activated. The color of your computer screen will be turned to green. To apply the changes you’ve made, click the OK button.
Aside from Short breaks, you can also set your Long breaks. You can also access its Configure button to make some changes.
Going back to the main interface, if you want to lock your computer screen once the break time is set off, go to the Protection tab, enter your password, and enable the Parent Mode Status. You can use this feature to limit the computer time of your children or to someone who does not know the password.
The password alone can open the locked screen.
The Settings tab can be used to set the default language and enable / disable the tray icon action. You can also access and use here the profiler, which can be used to set the break time of each profile / person.
To hide Eyes Relax to your system tray, click the Hide button on the main interface.
When the break time is activated and based on the configurations we just set, the computer’s screen will be locked for 30 minutes with a green background.
To terminate the break time or if you want to unlock the screen, just press the Cancel button and enter the password.
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