Eye Defender Reminds You To Take Breaks
It is not very healthy to work for hours starring on a computer monitor without taking breaks.
Eye Defender was designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome; it can have all kinds of ill effects on the human body including eyestrain, blurred vision, delayed focusing, headaches, back and neck aches, dry and burning eyes, light sensitivity, distorted color vision, forehead heaviness, and sore eyes.
That is quite a few symptoms and better to be avoided. Eye Defender helps by reminding the user to take regular computer breaks. The software sits quietly in the system task for most of the time but becomes active every 45 minutes by default.
It's up to the user on how he or she is reminded of breaks; you have four choices that are offered by the program: Display a picture, run the screensaver, display a popup reminder or run the visual training that relaxes the eyes.
Note: The Eye Defender website the software was published on is no longer available. We have uploaded the latest program version to our own website. Just download it with a click on the following link: (Download Removed)
Please note that we don't support the program in any way and make it available just for preservation purposes.
Eye Defender
The break interval can be changed; Eye Defender supports intervals between 1 to 999 minutes but the default values are 15, 30, 45, 60 and 90 minutes, and it is recommended to choose one of them. The break duration can be defined as well.
Once installed, EyeDefender sits in the system tray and displays the time left until the next break. When the time for a break comes, the program does one of the following:
Displays pictures in a predefined folder;
Runs the visual training to relax the eyes;
Runs a default screensaver;
Displays a popup timed reminder in the system tray.EyeDefender can also help you prevent other problems related to computer use, which require a computer user to take short breaks. These problems include Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) or Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS), also known in the USA as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and in Europe - Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD).
The most interesting break reminder is visual training; it displays various symbols and figures on the screen to relax the eyes.
Eye Defender runs on most Microsoft operating systems from Windows 98 to Windows 10. We have tested the last release version of the software on a Windows 7 and a Windows 10 PC and the program worked just fine on both of them.
The application uses little RAM and virtually no CPU cycles while running in the background.
I tried it out, It’s nice software. Definitely something useful for me. It stores settings in the registry, but besides that, you could easily copy the EXE to a memory stick and run it.
An alternative use is that the tray keeps a progressbar so it could also be used as a timer for those who don’t like sounds.
good find
Will give it a shot. I’ve had eye problems since the days when I was just a little boy.