Your Nerdy Best Friend

Do you spend too much time at your computer, sometimes working at first light and again at midnight? The harsh glare of a computer screen may make your eyes tired and mess up your brain’s view of day and night.

F.lux is a tiny little download that helps change the glow of your computer based on the time of day. Just install the executable, put in your time zone and let F.lux do its thing. It will help your screen mimic the light in the room you’re in, thus relieving your tired eyes. My fabulous assistant, Claire, loves it.

F.lux: control your screen brightness settings automatically.

Want more ergonomic aid? Check out this tool that takes you through a 15-minute ergonomic questionnaire.

I love these types of environmentally beneficial services (I consider it a Beth Favorite). Signing up with My Junk Tree should put an end to quite a bit of the paper junk mail that fills up your mailbox.

It’s twenty bucks for three years, and they promise to cut down on junk mail and even stop delivery of the phone books that collect dust under the coffee table. Who uses those anymore anyway?

My Junk Tree.

Have you seen these two other green resources?

Most of us green-types cringe when we print out a 10-page document that has giant pictures and a last page with 3 words on it. GreenPrint helps take control of your printer, allowing you to save money, ink and trees.

Download the application and it installs like a printer. Then you can print to GreenPrint and choose which pages you want to print and whether you want graphics. You can also use it to print straight to a PDF.

I love that it also includes a little meter to keep track of how many printed pages you’ve avoided and how much money you’ve saved on ink. GreenPrint World is fully functional and free, though you have to see ads for green companies. The Home Premium edition costs just $29 per computer.

GreenPrint Software – Millions of Trees Can’t be Wrong..

I love, love, love things that make you more productive and help the environment. Print Friendly takes any web page and reformats it for printing, making sure you don’t waste pages when the text runs off the page. You can also easily remove pictures for printing or save as a PDF.

Print Friendly: Make a Print Friendly Version of any Web Page, save Webpages as a PDF.