There is a fine line that separates between using technology for our advantage and letting technology take over our lives. Life is too short to waste it waiting for the next notification.

For more, check my LinkedIn article about tech addiction

Some tips and tricks:

Turn your phone into black and white to make it the most boring thing in the world:

  1. Enable Developer mode (by tapping build number within Settings > About phone multiple times)
  2. Go to Developer Options and turn it on.
  3. Under Hardware accelerated rendering you will see option called Simulate color space, click it and set it to Monochromacy.

Block social media websites from windows 10:

  1. Open the host file in Notepad or any other text editor (plain). For devices running on XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8, the file will be located using the path C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

  2. Look for the line “127.0.0.1 localhost”.

  3. Key in the URL of the websites you wish to block below this line.
  4. Save and close the hosts file.
  5. Restart the computer to save and apply the changes