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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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Cybertron is a futuristic game, in which you zoom through huge cyber cities skiding off buildings and ricocheting off I/O towers for big bonus! Shooting at digital binary streams, and blowing away I/O towers may be fun, but you'll need to go FAST to get to the finish line line before your time runs out! Going over speed pads is the only way to go, as they give you super speed boosts. Beware, however, there are just as many zero pads that'll slow you to a crawl. Oh, did I mension you'll also need to fly in this game? Hit the boost button, and you're off in the air, zooming, taking sharp turns around and through the cyber buildings... But beware, a small jerk of the mouse could mean the difference between skiding off a building for big bonus points, or crash and burn!
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ToggleNETLIGHTS installs a task bar icons that shows you when there is network or Internet traffic occuring.
Indicators
The ToggleNETLIGHTS icon has two indicators. The top left icon lights up when there is incoming network or Internet traffic. The bottom right icon lights up when there is outgoing traffic.
Great for Cable and DSL Modems
If you once used a modem to connect to the Internet you may have been used to seeing traffic across the modem connection. But often when you switch to a cable or DSL modem this option is no longer available. ToggleNETLIGHTS restores the ability to see incoming and outgoing network traffic.
Great for the Office Too
If you're connected to a local area network (LAN) then ToggleNETLIGHTS is great for you too. ToggleNETLIGHTS will show all network traffic letting you tell the difference between stalled downloads and plain old slow traffic.
Works with all Versions of Windows
ToggleNETLIGHTS works with all versions of Windows including Windows95, Windows98, WindowsMe, WindowsNT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Try It Now! It's Free!
You can try ToggleNETLIGHTS right now! Just click on the Download Now button and our install program will lead the way. If you decide you don't benefit from ToggleNETLGHTS you can un-install it just as easily.
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Columns style game with very nice graphics and spectacular music. Combine the colorful blocks in rows, columns or diagonals of three or more to remove them from the screen. When you play better, gravity increase, how much can you support? Colorful blocks are coming down hard in this fun and super addictive game! Some words for our players: "diabolical" slow at first, but the more you play the faster it goes! My wife is at level 9, score 133300! You only get there by mastering the diagonals. More fun than Tetris for me!
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MouseLaunch is a quickest application program/file launcher that is activated by holding down both mouse buttons. You can activate the launcher by holding down both mouse buttons at any location in Windows.
Once the launcher activated, move the mouse cursor a little to the registered program/file (eight-direction) and click to launch. Once you experienced, it will takes less than 1 second for entire action. MouseLaunch has 3 sections (center, left, right) and each section contains 8 panels for program/file registering. This enables you register programs/files up to 24.
MouseLaunch supports a drag-and-drop to register your favorite application programs and files to the launcher panels. You can drag and drop a file from desktop area, Start menu, Quick Launch, Windows Explorer and even from favorities in the Internet Explorer.
MouseLaunch is quickest to activate, quickest to launch. MouseLaunch uses basic user interfaces of Windows not to slow down the system.
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Popcorn is a lightweight POP/SMTP e-mail client, free from unwanted and useless bloatware features. Being a true client/server application, it does not work in the same way as a typical mail program. This means that you're reading mail from a POP3 server directly, without downloading it to a local mailbox on your PC (although you can save mail messages locally if you want to). This makes it ideally suited for "on the road" mail access, and for scanning, reading and sending mail over slow internet connections.
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Startup Faster! 2004 is a revolutionary tool to make your computer boot much faster than ever while protecting your hard disk from sudden failure. Even if you have a top-speed computer, you have to endure the long time when booting Windows(all versions). Startup Faster! 2004 completely solved this problem. As you may know, Windows runs various programs at startup time, you even don't know how these programs were added to the startup list and when they were added. This caused Windows executes a load of programs(sometimes more than 30) on startup whether it's useful or useless which leads to a very long time starting up even on a fast computer. This problem has a long history since Windows 3.1, but it seemed that Microsoft won't solve this problem. Many users complaint about the long loading time and the noise of the hard disk when loading Windows, you even can't do anything when Windows is loading the "startup programs" in your "Startup" group and registry. The reason for this problem is Windows loads all the programs at a time which means more than 20 or 30 programs running at the same time! That's why your top-level computer looks very slow and costs a lot of time to perform it. Startup Faster! 2004 is specially designed to completely solve this problem, it used a unique technology called "SmartBoot? to speed up the startup process. Startup Faster 2004 optimizes your boot sequence by execution time and disk load. It handles the loading of Windows and made magnificent efforts! In our thousands of tests, it can speed up your loading speed by 50% to 200%! Startup Faster! 2004 also provides a powerful control panel to let you control all about startup such as adjusting the execution sequence, enable/disable certain program, etc. You can full control your Windows startup without much computer knowledge. Even with the default configuration, it works well on most of the PCs.
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Professional utility for creation of high-quality stereograms.
It can create stereograms from 3D-objects or prepared depth-masks,
export depth-masks, create animated stereograms, print rendered
stereograms.
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used by single users or in printing offices.
Program possesses the beautiful and easy interface
with support of external skins and plugins.
No difficult adjustments needed for stereograms creation.
Program works fast even on slow machines.
Supports the following formats:
3D Studio .3DS, .ASC; Quake .MDL, .MD2; .BMP, .PNG, .JPEG; .AVI
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V-CamShow is a free webcam slide show and screen saver. It enables you to watch your favourite webcams as a slide show or a screen saver. There is no limit to the number of webcams you can view. New webcams are added regularly which can be imported into your list. You can also add your own webcam to the list and increase your viewers.
V-CamShow employs an intelligent algorithm to auto-detect and auto-adjust the refresh rate - this will work for most, though not all, cams. This prevents you from downloading the same image over and over again. It can also detect slow or inactive cams and, depending on your choice, can either reduce their refresh rate or disable them completely, all done automatically. You can also set operation times for each cam individually so you can have different cams enabled at different times of the day - very useful if you are watching cams from different parts of the world.
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Graphically navigate as many links from a single web page with Tab Forward Lite, without using the back button or opening and closing extra windows. Tab Forward Lite grabs the links from the web page and then organizes and numbers the links in a column, and put them in the Side Panel. The links are displayed the same as on the web page allowing you to easily recognize and click on the links as a gif. picture, Text, URL or number to display in the main window, without going back to the original page. No clicking on the dreadful Back Button and waiting for painfully slow reload pages. Works great with Google Image Search. Cuts your time and aggravation. Other benefits of the program are, that it works great on gallery pages and the new Google Image Search. You can also drag and drop links from the side panel to other Explorer windows. And gauge where your web site ranks to a search engine result. And keep track of the total number of links on your web page or your competitors. As well as give click directions by number, instead of trying to explain the location of the link on the web page or long addresses. You can also cut and paste just the links from the side panel, to other programs in a numbered and column format, great for photo albums. Fun and easy to use and snap to install, a small but powerful tool that uses vary little system resources. O/S Requirements Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Plugs in to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or greater.
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