How close is too close?

Monitors should be a minimum of two feet from your eyes. Three is better. As somebody who leans into the monitor and gawks at the screen, this piece of advice is very hard to follow. But its all to save your vision and prevent eyestrain. If you cant read comfortably at that distance dont get closer to the monitor but enlarge the print. I have to remind myself of this and keep at it. Also, every hour at least take a five minute break from looking at the screen. All this will give you healthy bright eyes. Moms advice to eat orange veggies like carrots might also do the trick.

Exergaming with Wii

Of course we all know what Wii stands for. Its us. We the people, from five to ninety, who can use Nintendo Wii and enjoy it. Exergaming is the latest fun way to work out with the Wii. But those who do so in small spaces beware. Its estimated that millions worth of damage has happened in homes where exercise enthusiasts have got carried away and toppled the TV or fallen over the furniture.

And a helpful aside for all XP fans. No more XP sales starting now. Vista is here to stay.

Fingernails and cell phones

What have long fingernails got to do with touch screen phones? Plenty. A tap with the end of the long fingernail wont work. You have to touch the screen properly with your finger. Which is why the ladies have started complaining that the new iphone and others of their breed is not comfortable for them. Hope the makers are listening. Or of course, you can square down those nails.

3G phones

The new iphone at less than two hundred dollars ($199 to be exact) has 3G. And thats a whole new world for cell phone junkies. You can now video conference with the person you are talking to and see if they are in their pyjamas and curlers or presentable. You can watch live TV on your phone. With broad band you will only wait seconds to read your email. Plus all the wonderful things that the iphone already had. Launch date is July 11 worldwide. However, if you are like me who use a cell phone to call from here to there and that too only when necessary, then all these lovely features are just to look at and marvel over but not necessarily to buy. As my Dad used to say - you can appreciate something but you dont necessarily have to own it. And with these words of wisdom I leave you for the present.