Take a Five!

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  • Time Out

  • Break timer with micro-breaks for Mac OS X.It is very easy to fall into bad habits when using a computer for hours on end. You care about what you are doing, so can sometimes push yourself too far, or over-strain yourself. The human body isn't built to sit in one position for endless hours, gripping a mouse or typing on the keyboard. Dejal Time Out is here to help. It will gently remind you to take a break on a regular basis.

    tags: health rsi break-timer
  • SmartBreak

  • SmartBreak is a revolutionary ergonomics program that reminds you to look away from your computer screen and enforces you to take regular breaks. Unlike similar break reminder programs which inform you to take breaks at fixed intervals when working on a computer for long hours, SmartBreak monitors and analyzes the way you spend time on a computer and then adaptively prompts you to rest at the appropriate time leading to effective break time utilization.

    tags: timer health exercise break-reminder rsi
  • Breaktime

  • BreakTime is a simple utility that's designed to help you remember to take breaks away from your computer. It never forgets a break, running in your dock and / or menu bar (or even in the background). Let BreakTime do the hard work so you never miss a break.

    tags: break-reminder
  • Break-Reminder

  • Sitting all day in front of your computer can hurt your lower back and has a negative impact on your circulation. Extensive typing can stiffen the muscles in your upper back and neck, and finally staring at the screen for hours on end is very tiring and can cause serious problems, such as dry eyes and eyestrain. Moreover, office work has been associated with insomnia and anxiety. If you are damned to spend your working hours behind a desk, you have better find ways to do something good for your body, our tips can help you.The good news is that short breaks of relaxing and stretching can do wonders for your health and well being. That`s why we created BreakReminder app that reminds you to take a break off your computer. »

    tags: health reminder countdown eyes breaks
  • Pauses

  • Pauses is a small application that runs in the background while you work and helps you take regular pauses from working on your computer.

    tags: health dock automatic notification menu-bar
  • EyeCare4US

  • EyeCare4US is a free program for Windows, aimed at protecting eyes from computers, it shows us a window to remind us to take a break after a period of staying working in a computer. When it’s time to rest your eyes away from the computer monitor, the program will play a rain sound to relax and show us pictures with relaxing landscapes, When the time to rest the eyes and the eyes gymnastics have finished, the program will be minimized in the Windows system tray and the rain sound will stop

    tags: break-reminder eye-strain eye-rest
  • Look Up

  • Look Up helps you remember to rest your eyes, using the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, look up for 20 seconds, at something more than 20 feet away. Look Up is a highly rated health app that helps you keep focused in a healthy way.

    tags: productivity-tool health-and-fitness productivity-app break-reminder eye-strain
  • Move!

  • A work break timer with energizing Routines to Increase Productivity and Improve Your Health.

    tags: fitness focus workout-schedule work-break healtch