Depending on your work environment you sometimes may get distracted or interrupted by noise. In my particular situation for instance, I tend to get distracted by dog walkers or service cards outside of my apartment. Others may be distracted by co-workers chatting on the phone, a refrigerator, television or anything else that is distracting them [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you are working in IT, or with computers throughout the day, you know that it is important to take regular breaks, to relax the eyes and move the body a bit to relax the muscles as well. But breaks sometimes are to small to move around, which means that many computer workers spend some [...]

Categories: The Web

Being noise sensitive can have a huge impact on a daily work routine. Having to use a noisy computer can be a distraction and it might even cause sickness in the long run. One of the components that still gets neglected quite a bit when it comes to noise reduction is the computer’s hard drive. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There is no obvious option in Firefox to add sound to the web browser. Sound is probably something that most users would not want to let near their web browser because they feel it is distracting them from other tasks. Still: There are users who prefer a beep whenever they are clicking or when a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Did you ever have the feeling that your computer is making to much noises when it is running ? A high noise level can be distracting to say the least reducing work effectiveness. The worst effect: it could make you ill. I’m going to identify the most annoying pc noise makers and suggest ways to reduce the overall noise level of your computer.

Categories: Knowledge

This trick might actually work with more cards than just my Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT card manufactured by MSI. The default fan noise is so irritating that I was looking for ways to either turn it down by software, bios upgrades or replacing the fan. I preferred the software method over flashing the bios over buying a new fan that could replace the old one. After consulting google with searchtearms like geforce 6600 fan speed, reduce fan speed geforce and similar strings I finally found a forum entry that was about the problem I faced.

Categories: Hardware