Category: Useful tool

Grayscale mode in Windows 10, distraction-free reading with f.lux

This new version of f.lux has a grayscale mode and new key to turn it on: Windows + End.

The big surprise is how distracting the icons on the top and bottom of your screen are. These icon colors are the kind of thing you see in candy stores and on fire alarms, but we have to ignore them just to get work done. Without those colors, your computer looks more like a magazine that can help you focus on reading or thinking—it feels different, like a sheet of paper.

Source: What’s new with f.lux

Visual Studio Extension – Live Sass Compiler

Really simple and useful when working with sass files in Visual Studio Code.
Install from link below.
Click “Watch sass” in lower right corner of Visual Studio Code.
Edit an scss file and save. -> compiles to css file in the same directory. Also works with live browser reload. See output window / extensions / Live Sass Compile for process info.

Source: Live Sass Compiler – Visual Studio Marketplace

Log4View – log4net log viewer

Log4View is a powerful and comfortable viewer for log4net, NLog, log4j and log4xx

Log4View Community Edition is free to use. 

Log4View comes in three different editions:

  • Log4View Professional Edition is the most complete edition of Log4View. It can handle up to 255 different log sources simultaneously, can read input from databases and visualizes log messages as text and chart.
  • Log4View Trial Edition has the same features as Log4View Proferssional Edition but expires 30 days after installation. After expiration, the Trial Edition continues working as Community Edition.
  • Log4View Community Edition is limited to one log source, has no access to databases and can’t visualize log messages as chart. Log4View Community Edition is free for personal, non commercial use.

Download: Log4View – LOG4VIEW – created by PROSA