EYESAFE VERSION 2.00 SHAREWARE 1. OVERVIEW Whether you are an internet addict, a professional software developer or you just enjoy playing PC games you should realize that the more time you spend staring at your computer screen the more likely you will experience the discomfort of eyestrain. Although most people acknow- ledge the UNHEALTHY nature of continuously sitting in front of a computer for extended periods, there is often a lack of discipline in taking regular breaks. This is especially true in the case of children. Eyesafe is a utility which serves to relieve eyestrain by forcing users to limit their computer time. It was developed with the growing popularity of the internet in mind and provides a means to limit your surf time or any other activity that you are busy with. Eyesafe can be programmed to interrupt your computer activity at regular intervals for a certain time period. This forces you to take a break and give your eyes a well earned rest. Once the time period has expired you can continue with your former activity. Its that Simple! Furthermore the inclusion of a password facility enables one to control children's computer activity as desired. 2. INSTALLATION To install simply unzip the EYESAFE.ZIP file (extract it into a Temp directory so that you can delete the files after installation) and double click or run the setup.exe file. The install wizard does most of the hard work and once installation is complete you wil have the following files on your system: Eyesafe.Exe Readme.Txt DelsL1.isu _isreg32.dll _deisreg.isr All default to the C:\Program Files\Eyesafe\.. directory. To uninstall simply go to the Windows95 Start | Settings | Control Panel and activate the Add/Remove programs application. Proceed with the removal of Eyesafe. 3. HOW TO USE To start Eysafe proceed with the folowing steps: 1 - From the explorer double click the file eyesafe.exe or execute via the windows Start | Programs | menu icon. (note registered versions of EyeSafe have the option of activating automatically when the PC is switched on) 2 - Click the properties button and set the following parameters as required: - Shutdown time period. - Interval time period - Warning options - Password option - Activation options 3 - Click the activate button 4 - Minimize the Eyesafe utility if necessary. Note the utility runs in the background and allows you to continue with your normal activities. Once the time interval has been reached the Eyesafe utility will take over and will only return control to you once the shutdown time has expired. You are then able to continue as normal until the interval time period is reached again whereupon the shutdown operation will repeat. Note that several features of this version of Eyesafe have not been enabled. These will become available upon registration of the software (see section 6). When surfing the internet its best to activate the Warning options in the Eyesafe properties so that you are warned before shutdown occurs. This will enable you to either terminate your online connection or, if you prefer, start a download that will run while you are on your rest break. 4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Eyesafe will work on most PC's and screen resolutions. The only requir- ement is that the operating system must be Windows 95 or 98. Some anamolies can be experienced however if one is running dos based app- lications from within Windows 95. This is especially true for certain games that are not fully Windows95 compliant. 5. TIPS I find the most convenient way to use Eyesafe is to make it auto- matically activate whenever you switch your PC on. It is then a question of self discipline to adhere to the rest breaks in order to relieve eyestrain. 6. DEVELOPERS DETAILS AND REGISTRATION To register EyeSafe please send US$5 to the address shown below. Registration enables all the features of the EyeSafe utility.(The Delphi source code is also available at a cost of US$10.) Developer : George Vrahimis 26 Harry De Stadler Close Fish Hoek 7975 South Africa Email : gvr@msi.imt.za All comments, bug reports and suggestions for future enhancements are most welcome.