+1 for the Bose, had them a few years, used in open plan office to good effect for stopping background air con hum etc. but won’t cancel someone having a conversion next to you. Scary think is when you take them off you notice how much ambient background noise there is.
Anyone enjoy working in open plan offices? Rather have a separate “war room” where the team sits together?? Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Kirsten Greed Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2014 11:55 AM To: ozDotNet Thanks. Good to know about the Bose I have found this link about a silent mouse http://www.nxstek.com/nexus_silent_mouse.htm I share my home office ( we badly need a his and hers ) From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Harris Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2014 2:39 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quietprogrammingenvironment? Sorry I do not think I am going to be a lot of help here… Recommendation: The best thing to do is to get out of the open office environment, I find that I am greatly affected by background distractions. I have had five fold productivity increases when working from home or in some other comfortable place away from the mad office. If that fails, I have used “Bose QuietComfort® 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones” (http://worldwide.bose.com/axa/en_au/web/quietcomfort_15/page.html) which are great at cancelling out the background road sounds on the bus, but pretty useless at the higher frequency office sounds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Noise-cancelling_headphones#Real-world_performance_of_noise-cancelling_headphones for a discussion on this. The best solution is that everyone has a work cubical with a lot of sound deadening material and meetings happen in meeting rooms, not at desks. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Kirsten Greed <kirst...@jobtalk.com.au> wrote: ah, I will take the tech tips on that too :-) From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2014 2:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programmingenvironment? Or get them a quiet mouse... From: Kirsten Greed Sent: 23/03/2014 10:23 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment? Hi All So that I can concentrate better, I am trying to filter out the mouse clicking sound from person at the desk next to me. Has anyone any tech recommendations on how to do this? Thanks Kirsten __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 9577 (20140322) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com