We've been following "Software Jedi" Dana Hanna's
An App A Day for a couple months with much enthusiasm. Two interesting side-effects of his project to write a program every day for a month is that he's releasing a lot of open source code and inspiring a lot of people to make their own apps. One such person recently created a cool mash-up of two of Hanna's best apps,
JediConcentrate, which darkens the screen outside of whatever app you're currently using, and
WPM Tray, which monitors how fast you type. The mash-up, called JediWPMConcentrate combines the two by darkening the screen around the active window whenever you typing speed passes a certain threshold. That way, if you really get in "the zone" writing or coding or whathaveyou, all other distractions will fade out of view. Very cool. Like its parents,
JediWPMConcentrate is an
open source download for Windows.
