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Linux Format

Linux Format, the UK's biggest selling newsstand Linux magazine: Each month the HotPicks section looks at the greatest new and updated open source software -- and the best of the bunch wins our Hottest Pick award. In issue 80, June 2006, Workrave received the award!

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Quoting from an article about Workrave:

[...]"open source software in many cases can be a real cost saver. It can also save your neck. Literally.[...]"

20 Minutes

Workrave in "20 minutes", a free french journal that's distributed near the subway stations:

Need To Know, 2003-03-21

Ostensibly, WORKRAVE is an applet with the simplest of jobs: it tells you to take a period break from typing to save your poor wrists. In real life, it's like one of those "let's build an C++ application" documentation examples gone completely nuts. From its humble beginnings, it's now an excrutiatingly well-engineered taskbar applet that runs on GNOME and KDE. Oh, and Windows. It's got a statistics feature, so it can tell you how many miles you've moved your mouse. Yeah, yeah, we know - but it's also got a networked client-server facility. Built-in. So not only can you now never escape from its persistent "take a break" fascism, but you can gather facts on how many miles *all* your mice have moved, from your laptop to your desktop to your VNCed Win2K server. It's GPLed. The author has a cafepress shop where you can buy Workrave t-shirts. There's also a leaflet you can print out and hand to your non-cult friends. The name appears to be a play on a $55 commercial program that does a similiar job - but, Jesus, what else could that do for the money? Operate a little crane to lift your hands up and down on the keys?
http://workrave.sourceforge.net/
- I actually blew my tendons trying to change all the settings

Lockergnome, 2003-09-25

Not too long ago, I saw a new kind of mouse that allows you to naturally keep your hand sideways, like holding the steering wheel of a car. I've been watching for that, and might consider it in the future as a preventive from repetitive strain injury (RSI). Workrave ensures you take the necessary breaks to avoid or help recover from RSI. The two types of breaks are micro-pause (a brief moment of relaxation) and rest break (a longer break away from the computer). Also, the program has exercises you can do during your breaks, and they can be done in a cubicle. View the statistics to see how many breaks you've taken as well as the activities such as keystrokes and using the mouse. Take a break after you finish reading this newsletter. Try closing your eyes or looking at something that is far away.

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