Archive for the 'Software' Category

Investing in Next Generation Technology to Rival Status Quo NEVER A Waste

Aside from being in control of a company just purchased by HP for more than 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS CASH, has Mr. Anderseen taken a dive off the deep end?
In this recent post, he sites an AP article claiming that the German government is investing in a next-generation search engine. He titled his post, “And [...]

VoiceCode: Advances in Voice Recognition Software

Via UIScape:
Researchers from the National Research Council of Canada have created VoiceCode, an application that allows computer programmers to dictate program code to their computer, with virtually no need to touch the keyboard.
VoiceCode can learn and adapt to the ways that computer programmers abbreviate such names, and match a full spoken phrase with its likely [...]

GentleMouse Review: Ergonomic Software for RSI Relief

GentleMouse is an ergonomic software program that lets you perform everyday mouse commands simply by making small movements of the cursor over well-placed menu commands. I blogged about GentleMouse when the software was first released, but I had no first hand knowledge of how it worked. Luckily, ExtremeTech did a full review of [...]

New Solution to the Problem of Mouse Clicking

Clicking a mouse may seem like an innocent enough task. It is such a sublte movement in fact, you hardly notice it. But applying that subtle pressure with your fingers thousands of times a day is actually a main cause of repetitive stress injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Ergonomic mice and various software programs [...]

Simple Ways to Protect your Vision

I stare at the computer screen for way too long every day. If you are reading this, you probably do too.
Blurred vision, frequent headaches, neck and shoulder pain, burning, watery, dry eyes…sound familiar? If so, you are showing symptoms of what optometrists call “computer vision syndrome” or CVS. Although not much is [...]

Mouse Gestures: The Ergonomic Firefox Addon

Mouse Gestures is a Firefox Addon (a free application that works with your Firefox browser) created by Optimoz to help users streamline common Internet browsing actions such as opening/closing new tabs, windows, and links, scrolling, going forward/back a page, and many more. The basic principle is, by creating shortcuts for repetitive moving and clicking [...]

Mouse Gestures: The Ergonomic Firefox Addon

Mouse Gestures is a Firefox Addon (a free application that works with your Firefox browser) created by Optimoz to help users streamline common Internet browsing actions such as opening/closing new tabs, windows, and links, scrolling, going forward/back a page, and many more. The basic principle is, by creating shortcuts for repetitive moving and clicking actions, [...]