A nice aid to concentration: Dana Hanna's Jedi Concentrate, a freeware Windows application that dims everything but the currently active window (hit Ctrl-/, F12, or Win-J). As its creator explains, "The purpose is to dim everything on all of your monitors when you need to get to work." I've been looking for a program along these lines for several months and am very happy to find it. Jedi Concentrate is one result of Hanna's An App A Day project -- writing one application a day for thirty days.
This open-source application has already been improved by another programmer, Joe Chrzanowski, who added -- within a day of the program's release -- options for screen opacity and fade speed. Keep that in mind when Microsoft warns that open-source software is an unreliable, unworkable model.
I found Jedi Concentrate via Lifehacker, always a great source for useful stuff.
[2020: This app disappeared some time ago.]
Monday, September 25, 2006
Jedi Concentrate
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the link is broken for download with options
It looks like the maker’s website is gone. Thanks for letting me know. I’ve deleted the link.
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