The Spanish have the right idea. The siesta is an important part of daily life in hotter countries like Spain, and allows you to recharge ready to face the afternoon. But why should it be restricted to just hot climates? In the stress filled world we live in, filled with targets, deadlines and the like, wouldn’t we all benefit from a little nap in the afternoon? The creators of Pzizz certainly think so.
Pzizz is a program designed to help you sleep. It does this by creating a unique blend of sounds made up of music, sound effects and spoken words. Each nap you create is theoretically unique, thus ensuring that your mind never gets bored with what it hears. The program allows you to export your ‘nap’ to your mp3 player, or burn it to CD so you don’t need to be in the same room as your PC when you sleep.
The software comes in two flavours – energizer, designed for the daytime nap, and sleep for those who need a little help switching off at bedtime. Installation is easy, all it takes are a few clicks of the mouse and you’re ready to create your first nap.
The user interface won’t cause any problems; the main controls are like a standard media player – play, pause, stop. There are also buttons that allow access to more specialised features like setting the length of your snooze and creating the right balance between voice, music and sound effects, plus the export button that allows you to transfer the nap you’ve created to the media of your choice. In November, version 2.0 was released and that simplified the controls making them even easier to use and giving the program a look not dissimilar from a miniature version of iTunes. This month version 2.1 has been released with a few new tweaks based on user requests and it’s nice to see a company that responds so well to feedback.
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