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Another Bonjourr upgrade

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Still my browser window minimalist background app of choice, Bonjourr has just had another upgrade.

It now has a Pomodoro timer.

What that?

The Pomodoro timer is our first new widget in quite a long time, we’re really excited about it! If you’ve never heard of the Pomodoro technique before, here’s the short version: it’s a time management method where you break your work into multiple intervals, for example: start working for 25 minutes, then take a 5-minute break, work again for 25 minutes until the timer rings, take a longer break and repeat.

This structured approach can help you stay motivated, avoid distractions and overall get more done in less time.

And loads of other nifty features, including a lot of new personalisation options.

Incredibly, it’s still completely free, although you can (and should) (and I have) donate if you are using it and feel so inclined.

So much nicer than a plain browser window when you open it up, it’s absolutely a 6000 Recommends…

Bonjourr 21: the background update

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I’ve been using Bonjourr for almost a year and a half now, and it’s just lovely. I’d only been using it for a few weeks when I wrote a post about it and said this:

Sometime we can have nice things. And this is one of them.

And I was absolutely right. Well done, me.

Bonjourr is a really simple way to decorate your browser background – although the customisation options mean that it can be far more powerful if you want it to be – and while it might not seem like a very big thing, it’s just really cool to have images there instead of the same old block of colour. With the latest update – Bonjourr 21: the background update – they’ve added several new features, including the choice of using local files as your background, the option of having a video background to your new browser windows, and new texture overlays to make your screen look even cooler.

Let’s get this straight: this isn’t a massively important or necessary app but it’s free, it’s fun and it just makes things look nicer. And who doesn’t want something nicer on the screen in front of them?

I still haven’t really kicked off anything on Unsplash, as I had planned to do, but there’s some work that I am doing at the moment that might tie in nicely with that, so maybe you will be able to have a raft of my images decorating your desktop in the very near future. In the meantime, there’s plenty of other stuff on there for you to choose.

As browser add-ons go, this has to be right up there as one of the best. Again, not because it enhances the functionality of your software, but just because it’s so customisable and it looks so good.

It’s available for all major browsers – and some others, too.

Bonjourr

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Just sharing this extension I recently found from Google Chrome (much like the “NeSpReSsO iSn’T rEaL cOfFeE” thing, please don’t @ me telling me how Chrome is the (second) worst browser you can get. Thanks.).

Anyway. It’s called Bonjourr, it describes itself as a “minimalist startpage” and it just makes each of your newly opened tabs look nicer. Like this:

The images change each hour and they are taken from Unsplash, into which I’m definitely going to look further. The whole thing is fully customisable, even down to the actual css code. It’s open source, free, no account or login required, no stealy stealy data stuff and comes highly rated on the Chrome web store.

Sometime we can have nice things. And this is one of them.

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