The Knewton Blog

At night, our office is filled with people staring into computer monitors in dim light. Our eyes weren’t designed for this. Neither were our computer screens. In fact, monitor lighting is designed to mimic sunlight. This is great during the daytime hours. But at night, against the backdrop of a dark room? Turns out this faux-sunlight is super bright and headache-inducing. Here are two free apps to help ease eyestrain (and maybe even improve late-night… Read more

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The hard drive on my work laptop failed to boot last week after encountering a bunch of corrupted files. After trying all the options for fixing it myself—solutions like “reset the PRAM”—I took it to our system administrator and asked him to completely wipe the hard drive rather than try to fix the files and risk dragging out a repair. Sound like a disaster? Actually, it wasn’t so bad — thanks to a few key… Read more

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