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5 ways to make your
night and weekend computer life rich!
Are you a computer-worm? Do you thrive
on a computer 24/7?
A “computer-worm” is analogous to
“book-worm” – a person who spends most of the time working on a computer.
Do you expend most of your time reading or writing emails, chatting with
friends, watching movies, listening to music, cyber-window-shopping, etc?
Do you relegate your important tasks of completing a school assignment,
working on a contingency project, etc to realize later that you spent the
prime-time idly? In this article, you would discover few ways of improving
your cyber-life – how to make your working on a computer more useful and
much more effective.
Technology revolution has supplemented the ease and increase of computer
usage. The overall at-home global active internet use for a number of
selected countries grew by two-thirds of a percentage point from February
2004 to March 2004 (Nielsen//NetRatings). Switzerland exhibited the
largest growth rate at over 3 percent, while U.S. added the most active
Internet users over the month. With this enormous increase in internet
usage you have to keep the following 5 ideas in mind that would help
increase the efficiency of work that you do while on your computer
off-work.
1) Chat or email kills your time
Avoid opening a chatting application, or an email application as your
first window. When you find one of your friends on the chatting window (or
email from one of your friends), you inadvertently start conversing with
the person. On the other hand, if you do not find any friend, you search
for a new chat-buddy. In both the cases you deviate yourself from
important tasks. This hinders you from working on essential activities
that you intended to do when you started the session.
Instead, make a habit of completing tasks that you planned before opening
a chat window or an email window. Treat yourself with a chatting session
(or an email session) for completing the daily (important) tasks.
2) Audio speakers add to your entertainment
Turn on your pair of audio speakers, if you have one. Listen to online
news, success stories, motivational speeches or jokes while working on
your important tasks.
Online news is becoming common day after day. You can view and listen to
news on many websites. You would find it easy to access online news
channels if you have a “superpass” with Real Networks (http://www.real.com/superpass/).
Nevertheless, websites like MSN (http://msnvideo.msn.com/
), ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/ )
offer feeds to news and other interesting stories available for free
download.
3) Do smart-browsing not the hard-browsing
When you read on the internet, do it intelligently. One way of intelligent
reading is to increase your vocabulary. Look up difficult words in the
dictionary when you read documents on the web. You can use innovative
internet tools like XemanteX (http://www.xemantex.com)
that provide an online-running-dictionary. You can read through the
document with a built-in dictionary. Just double click the word to get the
meaning on the same screen.
4) Online games as concentration tools
Play online games. Games not only give you entertainment but also help you
increase your concentration. There are many websites that offer free
subscription to the games on their website.
Perform a Google search on “free online games” that would bring up
thousands of resources. Enjoy playing a game, improving your personal
skills at the same time.
5) Help your mind concentrate
Split your entire sitting into various sessions. You would be able to give
out more every session.
Take a coffee or tea break every 45 to 60 minutes. This would help your
mind free up its resources and get back on track after the break.
Moreover, this would help you avoid narrow thinking. One gets to think
through a narrow channel when deep concentration.
Okay, I told you 5 simple and common ways to make your off-work computer
life easy. Try them out and feel the difference. You would be happier and
feel more accomplished. As you know internet has redefined human’s life.
Computer, which was used only by intellectuals and elite a few years ago,
is a basic requirement for a common man now. To add fuel to the fire,
internet has supplemented its power transforming them the best
communication tool. Instant messaging, emailing, electronic news, etc
allow for fast and easy communication among the internet users. Very soon,
computers would be indelible parts of our life. You should realize that
the tremendous power that this internet has can only be harnessed when it
is put to use in the most efficient way.
Prasad Kopanati is the Vice President of XemanteX Inc. (
http://www.xemantex.com ), an
internet company offering language related services in the form of
dictionary tool displaying meanings for words appearing in the text on the
internet web pages. You can reach him via email at
team@xemantex.com.
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