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Protecting and Preserving Your Vision?

Posted by Cliff on from the saving-your-eyes dept.

Poligraf asks: "All of slashdotters spend a lot of time in front of monitors. What are you doing to preserve your eyes? My issue seems to be not a declining vision, but fatigue after certain amount of time in front of the computer. It becomes so bad that I need occasionally to leave the room with computer and sit or lie down to relax for 5 to 10 minutes. What do you think of a full spectrum lights? Certain scientists swear that it is the best thing since sliced bread, others viciously rip their claims apart. Has anyone used these? What is your experience? What other methods can you come up with?\"

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  1. one more suggestion by bromba · · Score: 5, Insightful

    6. You need to take these 5 minutes breaks before your eyes get tired. You don't have to leave your desk, just look around, close your eyes for a while, etc.

  2. super-wide is like dual, but better by r00t · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When you go really wide, like with those monster 23" wide-aspect things from Apple, you tend to display your windows side-by-side. You stop trying to spread one window across the whole thing, unless you're doing something non-text that calls for that. If you go dual-display, you can only evenly divide your workspace by 2 or 4. On a wide display, you can divide by 3. Also you don't have to deal with software behaving badly, putting dialog boxes spread across the two displays.