All Entries in the "HEALTHY COMPUTING" Category
Healthy Computer Use Positions – A Checklist
For all of us that use computers or wok on computers for extended periods of time, need to be aware of the many health hazards that lurk and which we may well be unaware of.
Here is a check list of dos and don’ts for computer that could help you check potentially harmful [...]
Working From Home? Ways To Reduce Stress (Part II)
Though working from home has many pluses such as giving you more time because you are no longer wasting precious time on a long commute, it offers flexible work timings so that you can work whenever you want, it can help you save on day care and transport, it can help parents [...]
Why You Should Not Be Eating At The Computer?
If you have a no-meals-at-the-computer rule, good for you!
Eating at the computer is not good for several reasons such as because of the bacteria that may accumulate there, or because you can actually end up spilling something on the keyboard (this is not so bad when it’s a desk top you’re talking [...]
Working From Home? Ways To Reduce Stress (Part I)
If, like an increasing number of professionals you work from home, either entirely or partly, or telecommute to your office, then it is more than likely that you are facing some of the pressures and stresses that go with the territory.
Schedule your time: It’s true that one of the chief benefits [...]
Tips For Green Computer Use
One cannot stop using computers, but there are several things that one can do to help minimize one’s carbon footprint when it comes to computer use:
Buy according to your Requirement: If you are not working a great deal on your computer, and don’t use it for a lot of things, then [...]
Economy Class Syndrome: How Does It Affect Computer Users?
Computer users are seen to be in some danger of having the condition that a lot of frequent flyers and long distance travelers are seen to have.
An affliction that is a danger for persons who are required to sit immobile in cramped quarters for long periods of time is a threat to [...]
Is Your Computer Green?
Every one of us uses a computer today, but how many of us are giving a thought to the environmental impact of computers?
Keep in mind the fact that technology is constantly improving, evolving, getting more advanced, becoming smaller, niftier, cooler, more convenient….
The reasons why we keep changing, upgrading and thereby creating [...]
Tips To Prevent Internet Addiction
Though opinions differ on whether virtual addiction or internet addiction are actual psychological disorders, there is probably some agreement on the point that computer or internet use should not extend to the point where it interferes with your day to day activities, your health, your interpersonal relationships and personal as well [...]
What Is Internet Addiction Disorder?
Modern conveniences and comforts bring along with them inevitably, attendant problems and troubles. The internet is no exception.
It is now difficult to imagine life without the internet; what was it we did before it was possible to Google just about any requirement that we had?
The internet has put in our hands [...]
Computer Radiation – How Danger Is It?
The word radiation itself conjures up dark and disturbing images of sickness and devastation; of nuclear disaster and fall out; there is the definite reverberation of the word cancer, where there is a mention of the word radiation!
Small wonder then, that when you talk about computer radiation, ears prick with unease and [...]
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