Is laptop usage damaging your health ?

Laptops are replacing the desktops at most of the offices.
Due to increase of travel and loads of work.
Laptops were designed with portability in mind. Many of
the design features create problems when it comes to
ergonomics. Long periods of working and inappropriate
laptop use can increase the chance of muscle and joint
pain, overuse injuries of the upper limbs and eyestrain.
The problem is that the monitor and keyboard of a laptop
are very close together.
The risks can be reduced or eliminated with proper work
space design, improved posture and good working habits.
Posture-related injuries
Back and neck pain, headaches, and shoulder and arm
pain are common laptop-related injuries. Such muscle
and joint problems can be caused or made worse by poor
workstation design, bad posture and sitting for long
hours.
Although sitting requires less muscular effort, it still
causes fatigue and requires parts of the body to be held
steady for long periods of time. This reduces circulation
to the muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments and can
result in stiffness and pain. If a workstation is not set up
properly, these steady positions can put even greater
stress on muscles and joints.
Prevention tips muscle and joint injuries
Suggestions to reduce the risk of muscle and joint
problems include:
• Position your keyboard at a height that allows your
elbows to rest comfortably at your side. Forearms
should be roughly parallel with the floor and level with
your keyboard.
• Adjust your chair so that your feet rest flat on the floor.
• Use a footstool (if your feet do not rest on the floor
when the chair is adjusted for good arm position).
• Switch to an ergonomic chair, which helps your spine
to naturally hold its curve while sitting.
• Use an ergonomic keyboard to offer your hands and
wrists a more natural holding position.
• Take frequent short breaks and go for a walk or
perform stretching exercises at your desk. Stand often.
• Use external devices. Attach an external keyboard
and pointing device to your laptop. Position them at a
height that allows your upper arms to hang loosely
from the shoulder and your forearms to extend
horizontally towards the keyboard.
• Raise the laptop. Place the laptop on a stand, book or
other surface so that you can see the screen without
having to bend or rotate your neck.
Ideally screen should be 51 cm away and 20 cm below
eye level.
Overuse injuries of the upper limbs
Muscles and tendons can become painful with repetitive
movements and awkward postures. This is known as
'overuse injury' and these typically occur in the elbow,
wrist or hand of computer users. Symptoms of overuse
injuries in the upper limbs include pain, swelling, stiffness
of the joints, weakness and numbness.
Prevention tips overuse injuries
Suggestions to reduce the risk of overuse injuries
include:
• Keep your mouse at the same height as your correctly
positioned keyboard.
• Position the mouse as close as possible to the side of
the keyboard.
• Use your whole arm, not just your wrist, when using
the mouse.
• Type lightly and gently.
• Mix your tasks to avoid long, uninterrupted stretches
of typing.
• Remove the hands from the keyboard when not
actively typing, to allow the arms to relax.
• Make sure the laptop is stable and will not wobble or
slide as you work, rest your eyes frequently and blink
more to prevent them feeling dry, it adds.
Eyestrain
Focusing your eyes at the same distance point for
extended periods of time would cause fatigue. The
human eye structurally prefers to look at objects further
than six meters away, so any work performed close-up
puts extra demands on the eye muscles.
The illuminated computer screen can also contribute to
eye fatigue, blurred vision, temporary inability to focus
on faraway objects and headaches.
Prevention tips eyestrain
• Make sure your primary light source (such as a
window) is not shining into your face or directly onto
the monitor.
• Tilt the monitor slightly to eliminate reflections or glare.
• Maintain a gap of nearly 51 cm between screen & eyes.
• Position the screen at or 20 cm below eye level.
• Reduce the contrast and brightness of your screen
• Frequently look away from the screen and focus on
faraway objects.
• Have regular eye examinations if any symptoms appear.
Precautions while carrying laptop during travel
Frequent travelers carrying laptop can put strain on backs,
hands and shoulders. To minimize these precautionary
measures are :
• Carry only the essential laptop accessories.
• Use a sturdy bag, backpack, or rolling luggage.
• Pack an external mouse.
So you see, there can be many disorders by use of
technology. But, still the technology is to be used with
the changes in the business needs, space shortage
etc… Therefore, as they say 'Precaution is better then
cure'; one should understand the risk, take it seriously
and to try to minimize the injuries.

ARE YOU A SPAM VICTIM ?

Technologies are advancing, so as the problems with the
advanced technology. In the scenario of e-Mails when
the communication goes through within seconds, the
junk and spam mails are the unfortunate fact of
technology.
If you struggle to find important emails hiding in the
jungle of junk in your inbox, you are not alone. In 2007,
72% of all email traffic was spam.
What is a SPAM email?
A SPAM Email is an unsolicited commercial email, in other
words, an email trying to sell you something which you
haven't requested. E-mail spam, also known as bulk email
or junk e-mail is a subset of spam that involves
sending nearly identical messages to numerous
recipients by e-mail.
Spam is more than just a menace it makes your inbox a
gateway for viruses, phishing attacks and identity theft.
Where do spammers get addresses from?
Some of them are
• Dictionary attacks Some spammers use software to
randomly generate email addresses for popular email
providers, commonly called dictionary attacks the
software will guess the first part of an email address:
guessed@emailprovider.com
• Purchasing third party lists Buying email
addresses from third parties.
• Email Harvesters Some spammers use special
software called email harvesters which scan web
pages for email addresses. Common targets for email
harvesters are message boards and chat rooms.
• Some email appear from trusted sites This is
called email spoofing, in these cases the spammer's
apparent email address will be a trusted domain name,
the only way to really see where the email has come
from is by viewing the full header information of the
SPAM email.
Junk Mail trends
The various spam mails are
• Image Spam Includes Newsletter spams
• Attachment Spam Includes PDFs, zip files, etc…
Shows no sign of decline in near future
• Pump and Dump Stock Scam Spam One of the top
scam catergories, which continues to evolve even
after reporting
• New Social Engineering Includes spam related to
big events like Beijing Olympics, Saddam Hussein's
execution
Simple Tips to avoid excess junk mail
Some of them are
1. Don't advertise your email address or circulate it on
the World Wide Web, i.e. give email address to trusted
sites.
2. Have separate personal and business email addresses.
3. Choose an email address that is difficult to guess. This
would avoid dictionary attacks. Have special
characters such as underscores or numbers in email
address.
4. To avoid your email being picked up by email harvesters
software when including your email address on a
webpage (for example when you use a message board)
t r y t o o b s c u r e i t , for example, use
johnATyourprovider.com instead of using the @ symbol.
5. Check privacy policy and marketing opt-outs carefully
before giving out your mail address
6. Use junk mail filters with your email account
New Year Treat
This year introduced internet users to new dangers, like
'Peacomm Trojan' (kind of virus), where opening a
particular email had your computer download a mailware.
Your computer then becomes part of a bot network. A
bot-herder (spammer) can control these PC's remotely
and command them to send more spam.
Next on the list of spammers are social engineering sites.
It is therefore, strongly advised to the internet users; be
against giving out their email addresses on websites.
Once you are on a spam mailing list, there is nothing you
can do, except change your email address to avoid more
spam.

BENEFITS OF DESKTOP SEARCH ENGINE

What do you do when you don't have information on a particular subject? You refer to search engines offered by Yahoo!, MSN, Google etc…. After all, with the gaining popularity of the Internet, it has become easier for people to locate information on the Web. You can locate anything over the web including your own street, house, images that gels you, information about anything etc… Each of them is now known to offer desktop search engines for your PCs.
Does word find space in your vocabulary? If not then read on.

What are Desktop Search Engines?

Desktop search engines are tools that help in locating your entire hard drive in less than a second to pinpoint the right file, email, music or pictures. Be it Outlook Express, Word, Firefox, Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Images, Instant Messenger or, Video, you'll take only a few seconds to run a search on them
How are desktop search tools different from search
engines?
A 'search engine' in a website helps you search the Web.Search engines take the information gathered by its bots and use it to create a searchable index on the Net. You can use keywords to seek information on any subject required. A desktop search tool, on the other hand, utilizes CPU,
memory, and disk space efficiently to ensure continued high levels of system performance. For instance, if, during a course of one year, your search index has grown to 50000 documents, you don't have to spend the whole morning to find out what you are looking for. With the
help of desktop search tools, your entire PC will be searchable whenever you want it to be.
One of the main advantages of desktop search programs is that search results come up in a few seconds; Windows search companion can be some help, but it searches through Windows files and folders only, not e-mail or contact databases, and unless you enable the Indexing Service (in Windows 2000 or XP), the Windows search tool is extremely slow. A variety of desktop search
programs are now available.
Which websites offer desktop search engines?
Google, Yahoo! and MSN have well deserved reputation as the top choice for desktop search engines. Apart from these, there are others like the Copernic Desktop Search and T-Online, HotBot and Ask Jeeves that also offer downloadable search engines.
Which desktop search engine should you download?
Be it Google, MSN or Yahoo!, there are pros and cons to all of them as far as desktop search application is concerned. Yahoo! on the surface appears superior in features and performance to those of Google and MSN. But, unlike other desktop search applications, Web search isn't still well integrated into Yahoo! Desk Search tools. Also missing from YDS is one of the most useful
features of Google's desktop search the automatic indexing and caching of web pages you've viewed with Internet Explorer. Even though Google Desktop's searches go through sites
you've visited in Firefox/Nestcape/Mozilla, it suffers from a fatal flaw: It treats your PC as if it was a Web, and so doesn't let you fine-tune your searches. So when it comes to the daily work of searching, MSN Desktop Search often comes out on top.Google Desktop Search is unique in the way that it presents your desktop search results in your web browser, in the same way as regular web search results. It will Index files in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, as
well as plain text and PDF Files. It will also include your website history in internet explorer, your chat messages in AOL, the MS Outlook or any other email client etc…..The local Google database is updated continuously. Unlike Google, Yahoo! Desktop Search does not display
results in search engine results like manner in your web browser. This program has its own interface and its own windows. Yahoo! Desktop Search will try to guess your intentions as you type. Hence the program will start displaying results even before you have typed the whole
query. Moreover, this program will, like the Copernic desktop search program, give you a preview of most files in a separate window pane. Among other interesting options are the possibility to save searches, and set indexing options by file type, email client, and contacts.
This means that you can exclude certain files based on size, name or content. You can also limit searches to certain filenames, file types, file size, dates or directories/paths
How safe is it to download desktop searching tools?
Security experts say one should be careful while downloading search engines. Virus writers could actually use new desktop search tools to make their malicious software more efficient.
Since they are free, virus writers can use their brand names to get into your PCs and make their malicious software more efficient. Most industry watchers agree the products aid
productivity: From a single interface, users can quickly search the text of their e-mail, contacts, application documents, data files, multimedia files and more. The problem is the information these programs can find and potentially expose, such as documents on a shared file drive that are not properly secured or were supposed to have been deleted. Other potential problems with Desktop search applications are : conflict with other applications and performance issues.
There are various tools available, so you need to be very careful while downloading search tools. In IT nothing comes without problems. The faster you try to get (to increase your productivity) using IT, the more problems you would face. This goes by default, but you also need
to pace up with the growing needs of business, right?

Growth of cyber cafes declining sharply

The growth of cyber cafes, which are the largest source of Internet access in India, is declining sharply. According to a CII-IMRB Broadband report, the number of cyber cafes, which was growing at almost 60% in 2004 and 2005, has fallen to almost 20% in 2008. There are 1,80,000 cyber cafes in the country. Large industry players attribute the decline to lack of subsidy and support provided by the government coupled with increased security concerns and harassment of cyber cafe owners.

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Working on a computer? Watch your back

Most of us do it. Some do not pause once, others take breaks. Yes, all of us spend quite a good time on the computer. But have you wondered being glued to the monitor for hours at length could actually be dangerous for your back? Of course, computers have become a necessity in everyone’s life. With increasing broadband penetration and last mile connectivity on the rise, the number of computer users are expected to grow at a fast rate in the coming years. But mind you, increased number of hours spent in front of the computer also brings with it a number of potential health hazards. People affected by health disorders such as occupational overuse syndrome (OOS) and carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are on an all-time rise. OOS, also known as repetition strain injury (RSI), is a collective term for a range of conditions, characterised by discomfort or persistent pain in muscles, tendons and other soft tissues, with or without physical manifestations. CTS occurs when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist. Approximately 3-5% of the population has CST due to repetition of motion needed for computing tasks. It causes numbness, tingling, pain and weakness in the thumb, index, middle and ring fingers. A wrong posture at work may also cause pain in the neck and back, sleeplessness, irritability and anxiety. The serious problems could include spondylosis and severe back pain. A friend working with a data entry firm recently faced it — and quite seriously. Used to chomping furiously at the keyboard for long hours, he complained of low-back pain the other day and had to see a doctor. He was diagnosed as suffering from repetitive stress injuries that come from poor posture and typing habits. He was advised rest and educated on how these injuries could be easily avoided.

Here’s a dekko at the severity of the problem: Up to 15-25% of the workforce is affected by posture and back-related problems at any given point in time across the globe. According to a study, over 500 million man hours are lost every year in the US alone due to posture and ergonomics problems. Clearly, there are huge economic implications which practically get unnoticed in a country like India. Expert say poor awareness among the people and lack of knowledge among doctors about industrial health lead to such problems. Says Dr S K S Marya, director, orthopaedics, Max Healthcare, New Delhi: "Simply put, ergonomics is all about postures and their relationship with health. The science of ergonomics studies how people interact with their environment, and then figures out ways to make these interactions more efficient and safe. That means designing backpacks to put less stress on the back, or arranging computer monitors so that you don’t have to strain to see the monitor." Experts feel workplaces should pay more attention to chair design and ergonomics so as to avoid complications. “The spine should always have contact with the chair and the angle of head should be neutral. That’s the only way you can get away from problems like cervical spondylosis while doing repetitive work for long hours. In fact, people spend 8-14 hours in front of a computer everyday. If you do something wrong for prolonged hours, complications will arise,” Dr Marya adds. In fact, ergonomics should be an essential part of any office design as this has a direct bearing on the health of the workers. Doctors say that if you have to do a repetitive work for long hours, like sitting in front of the computer, then you must get up for three-four minutes every hour and stretch your muscles because they can hold the spine for some time only. Centre of gravity is another important factor which ergonomics should look into. Experts say that practising ergonomists must have a broad understanding of the full scope of the discipline. That is, ergonomics promotes a holistic approach in which considerations of physical, cognitive, social, organisational, environmental and other relevant factors are taken into account. One of the important goals of ergonomics is to design jobs to fit people. This means taking account of differences such as size, strength and ability to handle information for a wide range of users. Well, it’s time to sit up and take note

Google wants logins cut from YouTube data

Google Inc., the owner of YouTube, said it's seeking to remove users' login information from a database of all videos viewed on YouTube that it must turn over to Viacom Inc.
A federal judge in New York presiding over Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against Google told the search-engine company this week to give Viacom its "logging database" containing records of every video viewed, the login name of the person who watched it, and the Internet address of the viewer's computer.
Viacom, owner of Comedy Central and MTV Networks, wants the information to find out if YouTube viewers watch more copyrighted shows such as "South Park" and "The Colbert Report" than other videos in an effort to strengthen its $1 billion lawsuit against Google.
"We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history," Catherine Lacavera, Google's senior litigation counsel, said yesterday. "We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."
A Viacom spokesman didn't return a call seeking comment after business hours.
Viacom sued YouTube last year, claiming it allows users to post clips from its copyrighted shows without permission.
Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., has denied Viacom's claims in the lawsuit, saying YouTube follows the law by removing copyrighted material when it becomes aware of it.
US District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips.
The data would be disclosed only to the plaintiffs

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Computer Shortcut Keys

BASIC SHORTCUT KEYS
Alt + F File menu options in current program
Alt + E Edit options in current program
F1 Universal help (for all programs)
Ctrl + A Select all text
Ctrl + X Cut selected item
Shift + Del Cut selected item
Ctrl + C Copy selected item
Ctrl + Ins Copy selected item
Ctrl + V Paste
Shift + Ins Paste
Home Go to beginning of current line
Ctrl + Home Go to beginning of document
End Go to end of current line
Ctrl + End Go to end of document
Shift + Home Highlight from current position to beginning of line
Shift + End Highlight from current position to end of line
Ctrl + f Move one word to the left at a time
Ctrl + g Move one word to the right at a time
MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® SHORTCUT KEYS
Alt + Tab Switch between open applications
Alt +Shift + Tab Switch backwards between open
applications
Alt + PrintScreenCreate screen shot for current program
Ctrl + Alt + Del Reboot/Windows® task manager
Ctrl + Esc Bring up start menu
Alt + Esc Switch between applications on taskbar
F2 Rename selected icon
F3 Start find from desktop
F4 Open the drive selection when browsing
F5 Refresh contents
Alt + F4 Close current open program
Ctrl + F4 Close window in program
Ctrl + PlusKeyAutomatically adjust widths of all columns
in Windows Explorer
Alt + Enter Open properties window of selected icon
or program
Shift + F10 Simulate right-click on selected item
Shift + Del Delete programs/files permanently
Holding Shift During BootupBoot safe mode or bypass system files
Holding Shift During BootupWhen putting in an audio CD, will prevent
CD Player from playing
WORD® SHORTCUT KEYS
Ctrl + A Select all contents of the page
Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection
Ctrl + C Copy selected text
Ctrl + X Cut selected text
Ctrl + N Open new/blank document
Ctrl + O Open options
Ctrl + P Open the print window
Ctrl + F Open find box
Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection
Ctrl + K Insert link
Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection
Ctrl + V Paste
Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed
Ctrl + Z Undo last action
Ctrl + G Find and replace options
Ctrl + H Find and replace options
Ctrl + J Justify paragraph alignment
Ctrl + L Align selected text or line to the left
Ctrl + Q Align selected paragraph to the left
Ctrl + E Align selected text or line to the center
Ctrl + R Align selected text or line to the right
Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph
Ctrl + T Hanging indent
Ctrl + D Font options
Ctrl + Shift + F Change the font
Ctrl + Shift + > Increase selected font +1
Ctrl + ] Increase selected font +1
Ctrl + Shift + < Decrease selected font -1
Ctrl + [ Decrease selected font -1
Ctrl + Shift + * View or hide non printing characters
Ctrl + f Move one word to the left
Ctrl + g Move one word to the right
Ctrl + h Move to beginning of the line or paragraph
Ctrl + i Move to the end of the paragraph
Ctrl + Del Delete word to right of cursor
Ctrl + Backspace Delete word to left of cursor
Ctrl + End Move cursor to end of document
Ctrl + Home Move cursor to beginning of document
Ctrl + Space Reset highlighted text to default font
Ctrl + 1 Single-space lines
Ctrl + 2 Double-space lines
Ctrl + 5 1.5-line spacing
Ctrl + Alt + 1 Change text to heading 1
Ctrl + Alt + 2 Change text to heading 2
Ctrl + Alt + 3 Change text to heading 3
F1 Open help
Shift + F3 Change case of selected text
Shift + Insert Paste
F4 Repeat last action performed (Word 2000+)
F7 Spell check selected text and/or document
Shift + F7 Activate the thesaurus
F12 Save as
Ctrl + S Save
Shift + F12 Save
Alt + Shift + D Insert the current date
Alt + Shift + T Insert the current time
Ctrl + W Close document
EXCEL® SHORTCUT KEYS
F2 Edit the selected cell
F5 Go to a specific cell
F7 Spell check selected text and/or document
F11 Create chart
Ctrl + Shift + ; Enter the current time
Ctrl + ; Enter the current date
Alt + Shift + F1 Insert new worksheet
Shift + F3 Open the Excel® formula window
Shift + F5 Bring up search box
Ctrl + A Select all contents of worksheet
Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection
Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection
Ctrl + C Copy selected text
Ctrl + V Paste
Ctrl + D Fill
Ctrl + K Insert link
Ctrl + F Open find and replace options
Ctrl + G Open go-to options
Ctrl + H Open find and replace options
Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection
Ctrl + Y Underline selected text
Ctrl + 5 Strikethrough highlighted selection
Ctrl + O Open options
Ctrl + N Open new document
Ctrl + P Open print dialog box
Ctrl + S Save
Ctrl + Z Undo last action
Ctrl + F9 Minimize current window
Ctrl + F10 Maximize currently selected window
Ctrl + F6 Switch between open workbooks/windows
Ctrl + Page up & Page Down Move between Excel® worksheets in the
same document
Ctrl + Tab Move between two or more open Excel® files
Alt + = Create formula to sum all of above cells
Ctrl + ‘ Insert value of above cell into current cell
Ctrl + Shift + ! Format number in comma format
Ctrl + Shift + $ Format number in currency format
Ctrl + Shift + # Format number in date format
Ctrl + Shift + % Format number in percentage format
Ctrl + Shift + ^ Format number in scientific format
Ctrl + Shift + @ Format number in time format
Ctrl + g Move to next section of text
Ctrl + Space Select entire column
Shift + Space Select entire row
Ctrl + W Close document
OUTLOOK® SHORTCUT KEYSTLOOK® SHORTCUT KEYS
Alt + S Send the email
Ctrl + C Copy selected text
Ctrl + X Cut selected text
Ctrl + P Open print dialog box
Ctrl + K Complete name/email typed in address bar
Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection
Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection
Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection
Ctrl + R Reply to an email
Ctrl + F Forward an email
Ctrl + N Create a new email
Ctrl + Shift + A Create a new appointment to your calendar
Ctrl + Shift + O Open the outbox
Ctrl + Shift + I Open the inbox
Ctrl + Shift + K Add a new task
Ctrl + Shift + C Create a new contact
Ctrl + Shift+ J Create a new journal entry
WINKEY SHORTCUTS
WINKEY + D Bring desktop to the top of other windows
WINKEY + M Minimize all windows
WINKEY +SHIFT + MUndo the minimize done by WINKEY + M
and WINKEY + D
WINKEY + E Open Microsoft Explorer
WINKEY + Tab Cycle through open programs on taskbar
WINKEY + F Display the Windows® Search/Find feature
WINKEY +CTRL + FDisplay the search for computers window
WINKEY + F1 Display the Microsoft® Windows® help
WINKEY + R Open the run window
WINKEY +Pause /BreakOpen the system properties window
WINKEY + U Open utility manager
WINKEY + L Lock the computer (Windows XP® & later