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You may have heard the term ‘ergonomic’ thrown about from time to time, especially in reference to computing equipment.

But did you know that ergonomics is an entire field of study? There is a great deal of work that goes into ergonomic design and office set up, and knowing a little about it may make the difference between your ongoing comfort or the potential for ongoing, painful health conditions.

Back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome are just two of the conditions that may be caused by spending long hours working in the wrong position.

As little as the wrong seat height or wrist position can be enough to trigger these painful problems. Without changes being made, and if left to go on for long enough, carpal tunnel syndrome may even need surgery to attempt to correct it.

Prevention is the key. Ergonomics can be considered user-centered design, and in short it is the practice of designing both the working environment and the tools of work to fit the physical needs of the person. Read the rest of this entry →

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The normal situation for a home computer user is to have a physical machine in the home, that has a copy of a software operating system installed on it. The operating system is then loaded in order to allow you to run your computer, and to load any other applications that you wish to run.

Google hopes to change that situation, and in fact hopes that eventually the normal situation will be for a user to run on a cloud computing system.

This is almost a throwback to earlier days of computing, where schools and networks would have terminals rather than actual computers.

These would put a call into a server when they were turned on, and would request a copy of the operating system be distributed to them. It would load into memory, allowing a student or other user to work as normal on the machine.

Any work that they did would not be able to be saved on the local machine as there would be no hard drive. Instead it would be sent back over the network to a central storage machine.

It allowed users to access their work no matter where they were on the network, rather than being restricted to using a single machine. Read the rest of this entry →

There are many dangers to using a shared computer, but unfortunately it is not always possible to avoid them. When you are forced to use a shared computer or else go without, how can you be sure that you are not putting your identity or personal information at risk, and enjoy safe computing?

There are two kinds of shared computer to be considered: the public computer, such as at a library, or the family computer.

The auto-fill and password memorization facilities on modern computers can be wonderful features for people who struggle to remember things, and are great on a personal home computer.

Yet on a shared computer they are a huge threat. If given the option to save or remember the password that you enter you should always say no, because the risk is that the user who follows you onto the computer can access your account by simply allowing the computer to fill in your details. Read the rest of this entry →

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Lenovo has not been a conventional and predictable company, has it? It has maintained a line of notebooks, that although are certified to be tough and hardy, lacked the aesthetic features chased and often improved on by the majority of laptop manufacturers.

Likewise, in a most controversial move announced just before the year 2008 ended, Lenovo will be launching a new mobile workstation that has two screens, the first ever.

Not only that, the unit will be supplied with powerful quad-core processor and graphics card to fully maximize the potential of the screens.

As surprising as those features may seem, the weight and size of the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds and its expected price are not exactly normal either. Read the rest of this entry →

Computers have become almost an appliance at home.  Even children are familiar with computers and use them for various reasons.

Children are attracted to computers because they consider it as a toy.  They usually think that computers are for gaming and multimedia purposes.  Some think that it’s for educational purposes.

If you are planning to buy a computer for your kid, choose wisely.

You can consider the following 10 tips below to buy the right computer for your kid:

1. Know your kid’s computing needs

Make sure that you know your kid’s computing needs.  The computer that you kid needs may be used for research, homework, multimedia or gaming.

2. Buy an affordable computer

Once you know your kid’s computing needs, you can now have the option to choose the features and specifications for the computer.  With this, you will be able to buy an affordable computer that meets your kid’s computing needs. Read the rest of this entry →

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