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Cafe Yoga - -Screensaver - 12 relaxing & destressing stretches. In 10, 5 or 3 min chunks, easy on the eye, gentle on the body and the mind, almost as good for you as turning off your computer and going for a walk in the park. Take care of yourself in front of the computer and make sure that there is something left of you when turn off the computer and return to the real world. Let Cafe Yoga help you stay centered and calm.
A simple yet elegant piece of software, created with Flash - the user has absolute control - with keystrokes or onscreen buttons. Cafe Yoga is not one of those pieces of software which takes control of your computer. You schedule its appearance with a simple input of time, telling it either to sleep for x amount of time and then reappear or telling it to come up at this specific hour each day.
The 12 stretches come complete with breathing (only as a guide) and onscreen instructions which the user to remove by choosing the 'no text' option.
While not meant as a cure or treatment for RSI or carpal tunnel syndrome, Cafe Yoga enables the user to be proactive about looking after their body and posture as we spending increasing amounts of time in front of the computer.
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Cafe Yoga - the Timer version - 12 relaxing & destressing stretches when you want them. In 10, 5 or 3 min chunks, easy on the eye, gentle on the body and the mind, almost as good for you as turning off your computer and going for a walk in the park. Take care of yourself in front of the computer and make sure that there is something left of you when turn off the computer and return to the real world. Let Cafe Yoga help you stay centered and calm.
A simple yet elegant piece of software, created with Flash - the user has absolute control - with keystrokes or onscreen buttons. Cafe Yoga is not one of those pieces of software which takes control of your computer. You schedule its appearance with a simple input of time, telling it either to sleep for x amount of time and then reappear or telling it to come up at this specific hour each day.
The 12 stretches come complete with breathing (only as a guide) and onscreen instructions which the user to remove by choosing the 'no text' option.
While not meant as a cure or treatment for RSI or carpal tunnel syndrome, Cafe Yoga enables the user to be proactive about looking after their body and posture as we spending increasing amounts of time in front of the computer.
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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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ThreadBuilders Stress Buster is RSI Prevention software or break reminder software. It helps to reduce the risk of Repetitive Strain Injury (R.S.I.) and other computer related health problems and injuries such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tenosynovitis and tendinitis - often referred to collectively as "upper limb disorders". It can also aid in the recovery from such conditions. It runs quietly in the background, monitoring your computer activity and reminding you to take regular breaks. Stress Buster is easy to install and requires very little setting up yet is extremely effective. As Stress Buster reminds you to take your breaks, you will be surprised at how fast the time goes and how much work you are actually doing. You can download and try Stress Buster for free for 60 days.
Key Features:
* Three levels of breaks: Short Pause, Short Break and Long Break
* Tailor the break timings to suit your own preferences and working environment
* Each user can maintain their own personal settings
* Monitors your activity and only advises breaks when they are necessary
* Keeps you informed of your computer usage
* Progress indicator shows break time remaining
* Does not store computer activity statistics. Cannot be used to "spy" on your work.
* Snooze or ignore breaks
* Disable the ability to snooze and ignore breaks
* Optionally lock the computer to enforce breaks
* Assign your own sounds to break reminders
* Can be set to run automatically each time you log on to Windows
* Comprehensive help - including medical and ergonomic advice
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SmartMOUSE is an ergonomic mouse enhancement software. By empowering your mouse with intelligence, it enables your mouse do more for you, makes your mouse easier to use and saves you a lot of time and energy.
You can enjoy the following benefits brought by SmartMOUSE:
*Less mouse movements and clicks.
*Less eyeball movements.
*Quickness and easiness to perform many operations.
*Increased working productivity.
*Early prevention of computer-related illness.
Specifically, SmartMOUSE provides you the following features:
1. Just Wheel It : Directly use wheel button to scroll the window under cursor. No need to click.
2. Smart Move : Automatically move cursor onto dialog box center or the button on it.
3. Easy Switching : Switch to the application under cursor by directly scroll the wheel button.
4. Cursor, Go Away : Cursor will automatically move away if it is near your next input character when you are typing.
5. Rest Reminder : Remind you to take a break by monitoring your keyboard and mouse activity and how long you have been using computer.
6. Mouse Shortcut : Easy and comfortable mouse gestures to do the following tasks. So easy that you can do them correctly without opening your eyes. These tasks include : IE go back, go forward, stop, maximize/minimize/restore application window, show desktop, switch to last application, launch new IE.
Although providing so many features, SmartMOUSE is still very easy to use:
1. SmartMOUSE knows well that settings and options are the most annoying things of a software. It is ready to use after installation.
2. SmartMOUSE has a step-by-step tutorial that will help you grasp the mouse shortcuts in a short time very easily.
3. SmartMOUSE will not pollute your taskbar by showing its icon there. It will always work for you honestly and intelligently at background.
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