Frustration is often something that settles in for people that spend long hours on their keyboard. Typing hour after hour is not only exhausting, but it can also present some health problems. In order to keep up your productivity and to avoid some very painful health issues, think about using Dragon speech recognition software.

One of the largest challenges for anyone who has to spend their day on the keyboard is being able to get through to the end of the day without their wrists and finger joints being on fire. People who do not have to type for a living will often laugh at the fact that typists complain about pain. However, carpel tunnel syndrome is hardly something to laugh about and can even require surgery.

Another physical challenge of typing is a sore forearm. When most people type, the muscles and tendons in their forearm are tense and can get quite fatigued. Over time, this can continue to get worse to the point of severe pain. If it is not addressed, it can be painful to even try and lift your arm off the table.

There is one more immediate area that is affected by spending too much time typing and it is your elbows. A lot of people will end up resting their elbows on the end of the desk as they type. This will put pressure on a tendon that is in that area and this can cause shooting pains that will travel back down to the hands, up through the back and neck. Does the word migraine mean anything to you?

In addition to health issues, there are also some very positive production reasons to use this program. Typing has become a part of just about everyone’s job these days. Unfortunately, not many people have had any formal training and they end up wasting a lot of time hunting and pecking at keys when they should be out on the floor.

By using voice recognition software, even the slowest typist can pump out upwards of 100 words a minute. Instead of taking an hour to do an end of shift report, it can take less than 15 minutes. Someone that gets paid on piecework would benefit because they can now produce double or even triple the work that they were providing before.

If you find that you are moving too slow on the keyboard or are having health issues from typing, Dragon speech recognition software may be the solution. This is far and away one of the best programs on the market and can alleviate both productivity and health challenges. You may soon find that you are not only experiencing pain free work, but that everything is also getting done a lot quicker.

Typing documents can be quite a challenge in many professions. While we think that the only people that are responsible for typing a lot of documents are “common workers,” there are plenty of professionals that need to type significant sized documents. This is one of the reasons that programs like Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 are so popular among professions such as lawyers and doctors. Voice recognition software such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking comes in handy when you want to create a lot of documents fast and without too much hassle.

People who do not generally type up a lot of documents can find themselves challenged when faced with this task. However, it still has to be done and if they have to do it all by themselves, they can end up spending hours at a computer for something that would only take their assistant or secretary a few minutes to do.

We all have the impression that doctors and lawyers make enough money to employ a full staff, but the reality of this situation is that those in private practice are being hit just as hard as everyone by the recent economy. Because of this, they are forced with the same labor cuts and trimming of the budget as every other business around. They now find themselves doing tasks that they never thought they would have to do.

Documentation is a large part of both the medical and legal professions. In most cases, doctors and lawyers have staff to handle this, but today that has all changed. However, just because they have to do it does not mean that they are very good at it. As you can imagine, typing was probably the last skill that they thought that they would ever need during their studies.

Using a speech recognition program like Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 can take the worry out of the nights at the office when it is time to start the paper trail. The program is easy to use and once some practice with the software has been completed, a person that has never used a keyboard can find 100 words or more a minute flying across the screen. This enables them to be more efficient and not waste a lot of time doing a task that they are not exactly thrilled about.

The beauty of this specific program is the fact that there are versions that are available specifically for Doctors and Lawyers. These are Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Legal Edition and Medical Edition. The medical and legal terms are already programmed in the software (specialized vocabulary is included) which will have no problem recognizing or spelling the most technical language and terms. As the program gets trained in that individual’s voice, the typing will be just about perfect.

While no program can take the place of a person, Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 comes pretty close. The program touts 99% accuracy and has the ability to be expanded into both the legal and medical fields. If you find that times are tough and cuts have to be made, rest easy knowing that you will not have to spend every night typing away until the wee hours of the morning.

For more information about Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 for Legal and Medical professions, visit the official Nuance WebSite Here (Nuance is the company selling the product). You can find plenty of testimonials and case studies to help you decide whether the product is right for you.

I have a QNAP TS-109 II Network Attached Storage (NAS) device which I use for data storage, download station, torrent client etc. This NAS is a Linux Box so I thought about using it for another application in addition to the other mentioned above: as an SSH tunneling box for encrypting traffic when I’m outside of the home (on an unsecured wi-fi hot spot for example). Since the NAS is already running an SSH deamon, you can enable it to work as an SSH tunneling server. Basically you can use PuTTY (SSH client) to create an SSH tunnel with the NAS using local port forwarding. PuTTY creates a local port on your PC (e.g 9999) which listens for connections and sends all traffic that is destined to this local port over to the remote NAS SSH server. This traffic is sent over the encrypted SSH tunnel between your PC and the remote NAS. At the NAS end, the traffic exits the NAS towards the Internet (TCP Forwarding must be enabled on the NAS). With that setup you essentially create a secure encrypted tunnel that can be used to access the internet securely when you are connected on a public wi-fi hot spot or even in a hotel room.

First, we need to make some changes on the sshd configuration of the NAS station. Open a CLI connection with the NAS (using telnet or ssh) and edit (using vi) the sshd_config file located under /etc/ssh/ path. You need to change the following settings in sshd_config:

• Uncomment the #AllowTcpForwarding no parameter (remove the # ) and change it to yes.
  AllowTcpForwarding yes
• Uncomment the #PermitTunnel no parameter (remove the # ) and change it to yes.
  PermitTunnel yes

However, the changes above will not be permanent since the QNAP NAS device will change all configuration to default settings when rebooted. Therefore we need to somehow make the changes permanent. What we can do is the following:

• Copy the modified sshd_config file into a shared location on the NAS.
• Use the “autorun.sh” script to copy the modified sshd_config file from the shared location and overwrite the original sshd_config file located under /etc/ssh/
• Then restart the sshd deamon to take the new modified settings.

I have copied the modified sshd_config file under /share/HDA_DATA/
Now, in order to create the autorun.sh file, do the following:
# mount -t ext2 /dev/mtdblock5 /tmp/config
# vi /tmp/config/autorun.sh

Get into vi editor and enter the following lines:
cp /share/HDA_DATA/sshd_config /etc/ssh/
killall sshd

Save the file and make it executable.

# chmod +x /tmp/config/autorun.sh
# umount /tmp/config

That’s it for the NAS.

Now in order to create the ssh tunnel, we will use PuTTy as shown below:

Open up PuTTY and go to Tunnels. At Source Port enter a desired local port that will be listening on your local PC (e.g 8888). Select Dynamic and press Add.

As you can see above, port 8888 is created. This port will start listening on your local PC after you connect with SSH to the NAS.

Now go up to “Session” and put the IP address of your NAS ssh server. The picture above shows a private IP address (192.168.10.111) but in real situations this should be the domain name or the public IP address of your NAS server. Click “Open” to log in to the NAS with your SSH username and password. When you log in, a secure SSH tunnel will be created between your PC and the remote NAS server.

If you need to encrypt all of your internet browsing traffic, you have to configure a SOCKS proxy on your browser with IP address 127.0.0.1 and port 8888.