A lot of people I know need background noise in order to work. Most play music, me – I can’t concentrate with it on. I find that I end up paying more attention to the lyrics or melody rather than what I am supposed to be doing. I just can’t tune it out. But, I still need something in the background. Enter today’s Hot Site – Simply Noise.

My brother was the first to stumble onto this gem when he found himself needing to sleep in a room that had no fan. You see, when my brother was born he actually spent the first two weeks of his life in an incubator. To this day, he can’t sleep without some sort of constant hum in the room, usually he relies on a fan. But on this night there was no such option so he did what any geek would do, he plugged in his laptop and did a search on Google. Ten minutes later he was sound asleep.

Simply Noise is just that – noise. It comes with three types: white -which resembles old TV static, pink -which is more along the lines of a fan, and brown -which is somewhat like the dull roar of a far off waterfall (and my personal fave.) You can set the volume of your noise by clicking and dragging the large gray ball and sliding it back and forth on the volume bar until you find your comfort level. Then, if fans really are your thing, you can turn on the oscillating feature – which is that squiggly button you see on the left. The ball will then slide back and forth on the volume bar on it’s own, but never going higher than the level you have set it at. After that, all you have to do is go on about your business and just have it running in the background.

This site may have helped my brother sleep, but it helps me get active. Somehow the background noise helps me get in the zone and all other noises fall away. So if you need noise to sleep, want to drownd out the family television set, or just need to have something going in the background, click the pic and check out Simply Noise. Enough said.