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I’ve been reading a lot lately about securing your computer. This has come up because apparently, many of us go about our business and do not realize that we may be spewing out spam.  Certainly that was the case with me.

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Do you experience pain when you are at your computer for hours? Here is a new study and some tips to keep yourself healthy while computing!
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Arm Pads Give Relief to Computer Pain
Jennifer Warner

April 21, 2006 — Resting your forearms on supportive arm boards or pads may take some of the aches and pains out of working at a computer every day.A new study suggests that providing forearm support can significantly reduce neck and shoulder pain as well as hand, wrist, and forearm pain associated with computer use.

“Based on these outcomes, employers should consider providing employees who use computers with appropriate forearm support,” says researcher David Rempel, MD, MPH, director of the ergonomics program at San Francisco General Hospital, in a news release.

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Take a look at this video and get a glimpse of the next few years.

Fact or fiction? Only time will tell. I for one am very, very curious.

How will you and your business play a part in this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AkFGsNtTFRI

We have been looking for a relatively easy way to build websites quickly. The forums have all been abuzz about two different products. Well, we now own both products, and let me tell you…there is no comparison between the them as I was lead to believe.

XSitePro is a pleasure to use. It’s intuitive, comes with a 101 page tutorial, a 461 page manual and several videos – all of which walk you through the program with ease. If you have your content all together, you can have a site up and running in less than 2 hours (if you are green like me) and that’s right out of the box.

The other program we bought, while it makes nice sites, actually ended up having a steeper learning curve as the instruction manual left much to be desired, not to mention the frustration that we experienced. While it makes nice sites, it is not as flexible, nor is it as robust.

While it’s a breeze to build your pages, XSP also tells you what you need to do in order to optimize your pages. In addition:

• It automatically creates your site map
• Adds Google Adsense in easily allowing you to format your ads on the go.
• You can easily add in images and graphics.
• Create a links page easily.
• Automatically run several preinstalled scripts such as print this page and bookmark
• Make redirect pages
• Format your robots txt file
• Create pop ups –pop ins- pop-unders with a few clicks.
• Make global changes to your design and navigation in one place.
• And so much more…(I’m sure I’ll be able to tell you more as we continue to build sites)

I just know I’m going to be so much more productive with this software…I already am. And while much of this stuff is rather new. I recently heard from a hard core dreamweaver user that this program is unbelievable.

This is one program I cannot recommend highly enough. If you are trying to make a decision between XSP and another program, let me tell you, XSP is a no brainer.

Now if I could just find a graphics program that was as easy!

Tips on Creating a Site Map