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brotherS:
Thanks to mouser I found this:

14. Prevent near-sightedness!

Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. "It's usually caused by near-point stress." In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles -- like the eyes -- into relaxing as well.

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So all we need is a bit of code what would let the user set the interval and a way it will alert the user to do exactly what's necessary! :)

This seems not only to be healthy but would also be a cool program to mention on lots of different sites, including lifehacker and stuff.


Source: http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=other.diseases.ailments&conitem=98f183b403517010VgnVCM200000cee793cd____&page=4

mouser:
perhaps a more general solution would be a program that you could set the interval (and enable/disable), and it would blank the screen and place up one random picture from a set, until you hit a key; the pictures would be illustrations and text of different such techniques, whether they be like this, or repetetive strain excercises, etc.

brotherS:
I prefer to not being forcefully interrupted in what I'm doing at that moment, but maybe a nagging popup or something like that would be nice :)

skrommel:
 :) How about my TakeABreak v1.1?

It supports user defined messages.

Skrommel

brotherS:
:) How about my TakeABreak v1.1?

It supports user defined messages.

Skrommel
-skrommel (December 01, 2005, 08:41 PM)
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I read about TakeABreak, that's why I posted this new IDEA post: I would need a tool that won't block my desktop access completely, as useful as that may be for others :)

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