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"Take regular breaks" is probably the most frequent advice you will receive when you talk to medical professionals about Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
Albion StopNow helps you take that advice. It monitors your computer and gives you a discreet reminders if you work for too long without taking that necessary break.
Note: RSI is also called Repetitive Stress Injury, OOS (Occupational Overuse Syndrome) or CTD (Cumulative Trauma Disorder). More information and resources can be found on the program's website at www.albionresearch.com/astopnow.
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SoundTimer is simple and flexible task scheduling utility, for automating routine and repetitive tasks. It has many advantages over the standard Windows Task Scheduler:
- Execute tasks every few seconds, minutes, hours, or days
- Perform "open", "execute", "print", "queue", or other actions on documents or programs
- Easily suspend and resume individual queued tasks
- Internal sound player, with pre-emptive priority system
SoundTimer is also a unique and innovative sound effect player. With its priority-based queueing functions, Sound Timer can be used to simulate cyclical or random background noise.
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Break Reminder is designed to prevent and assist convalscence of OOS/RSI. Runs in the background monitoring computer use, giving appropriate pause and/or break reminders. Highly user configurable. Settings customizable to suit each individual user, including advance warnings, screen black-out, sounds, ignoring or enforcing pauses and/or breaks, variable timings and operational modes, auto run etc. Optional micropause reminders after user preset times. Optional Rest Breaks to user preset times, after user preset number of Micropauses. Detection of user input to automatically modify times depending on use. A log file for each user to record most events, including ignored pauses and breaks. System Tray icon right-click menu to access necessary functions and status. Options to ignore or enforce breaks. Sounds to indicate when breaks start and finish. Options for Micropauses only, Rest Breaks only, or both. Optional password protection. Multiple user versions available. Many users around the World wouldn't be without it.
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Break Time helps you avoid the weariness (known as Occupational Overuse Syndrome or Repetitive Strain Injuries), which arises during work on the computer.
Weariness arises as a result of long continuous work. It may be prevented if you take a break and do relaxing exercises. Relaxation will be enhanced if you listen to classical music during the break.
Break Time tells you when you should take a break and provides soothing music during the break time. The program keeps track of the time you spend on the computer and can help you minimize the negative influence to your health.
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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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BlockPop block all unsolicited popup windows from appearing while browsing with Internet Explorer. It saves you time and bandwidth by providing you with an annoyance free web surfing experience.
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STL Import for AutoCAD is a STL file import plug-in for AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002 and 2004. STL Import for AutoCAD gives AutoCAD the ability to import geometric data from ASCII as well as binary Stereolithography (STL) files.
STL Import for AutoCAD is very easy to use. This plug-in adds a new command to AutoCAD called "STLIN". Simply type "STLIN" at the AutoCAD command prompt and select a STL file to import.
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APM- affiliate/viral marketing management software. With this simple and easy-to-use program
anyone can start and run many types of viral marketing programs,
including "refer a friend" programs, affiliate programs, MLM, profit-sharing programs, and networking arbitrage.
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Quick Calendar displays the day of the month in your system tray. It's a very handy way to quickly know the date without having to move your mouse - the PC equivalent to having a date display on your watch. Just glance at your screen not your wrist!
Key Features:
- Fast and Easy viewing of the current date
- Date icon for your system tray
- Push Pin
- Calendar
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A Virtual Desktop System for Windows. The Virtual Desktop Manager implements multiple independent virtual desktops. comes with a sophisticated wallpaper changer that allows each of the multiple desktops to have independent wallpaper.Both the Wallpaper Changer and the Virtual Desktop Manager expose a simple COM Automation API.
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Acting as a mp3 to cd burner, WMA to MP3, AVI, DIVX, DVD, MP3 to WAV converter.burner and ripper, is a handy tool for you to make audio CD, mp3 CD or make mp3 files with almost all kinds of media files.
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SignetSure is Win32 security tool for protecting files from hacker alteration. You create digital signatures for your files from a Win32 app. Then you authenticate your files with a single API call. Authentication code is available both in dynamic (DLL) and static (LIB) library formats. Use either C/C++ or Visual Basic.
SignetSure uses RSA public key cryptography. Download free demo version, which has no time limit.
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