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OOS, RSI, CTS... - These acronyms all hurt you, and can kill your career in these wired times.
Repetitive strain injury, Occupational overuse syndrome, and Carpal tunnel syndrome are all faces of the same malaise. In layman's terms, if you use something too much, you'll damage it.
For those on the coal face of the IT industry, it's endemic, and can mean losing a career when typing becomes too painful to sustain...
What can you do?
A good typing technique makes a huge difference. Touch typing is recommended, and you should use two hands to use a shift or control key combo. I switched to the Dvorak keyboard a while back, both to reduce finger movement, and force myself to touch type.
It is a big help to take frequent 'microbreaks' every 5-15 minutes from what you are doing, move around, stretch, and give blood a chance to flow around the place. You should move your arms away from the keyboard and mouse, focus your eyes to some distant point, and relax.
I wrote this program because I always get too involved in what I am working on to remember to take regular breaks (hours can pass before I remember that I should eat, or go to the toilet...). However, I found every reminder program I tried to be too frustrating and/or intrusive to use for long.
What does the program do?
Every 10 minutes (or whatever you set it to) the program will play a sound to remind you to have a stretch. I use a large archive of sound bites from movies and TV (www.tidalwavs.com is good) - the program picks one at random as the reminder each time to keep it interesting.
The important thing is that this is not intrusive, it does not slow me down, and it works. I resent those programs that measure how much you have moved your mouse, or used your keyboard. All that expends resources that my PC and I could better use elsewhere. SoundBreak just sleeps until it is needed.
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Whether you connect to the Internet occasionally with a dial-up connection, or you are constantly connected via DSL, Cable, Satellite or via a Network, your personal data is at risk now more than ever. It used to be that hacking attacks came from the outside world (the Internet) and simple, low-cost firewalls could protect your data. Today hackers and web snoops are using more sophisticated viruses, cookies, Trojan Horses and other malicious software tools to gain access to your PC. Once they gain access, they put unsafe applications on it that are designed to expose your data from the inside. My Firewall Plus protects your computer by stopping hackers and other intruders from gaining access to your system and data. At the same time, it prevents hidden or unknown software (the kind a virus could install) from connecting to the Internet without your knowledge. My Firewall Plus is an advanced, bi-directional intrusion defense system that's both easy to configure and easy to use. My Firewall Plus makes your computer impenetrable to the outside world. It installs easily and automatically detects your Internet connection and settings. Simply turn it on and you're ready to go with the advanced protection required by today's computing environment. If an intrusion attempt occurs, My Firewall Plus' automatic intrusion detection instantly defends and blocks it. You are immediately notified and your Internet connection is adjusted to prohibit further attacks. Likewise, if an unauthorized application on your system attempts to access the Internet, My Firewall Plus intercepts and blocks it, then advises you of the situation. My Firewall Plus supports all types of Internet connections, from dial-up to broadband Internet connections. Advanced, customizable security profiles enable fast configuration and provide the safest, most flexible solution available today.
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Hunter Dictionary II is a free multifunction online dictionary for translating English word to Chinese, English or Japanese. It is also an specialized dictionary for thesaurus and computing terms.
Hunter Dictionary II contains no dictionary database itself. Instead, it is a specialized Internet Browser, user can use it to browse the online Dictionary Service (e.g. Yahoo Chinese Dictionary, MSN Encarta, Thesarus.com etc).
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