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 The other night I was talking with some colleagues and they were complaining about having to deal with so much e-mail every day. I naively asked them how much e-mail they get in a day. I was surprised when the answers ranged for 10 to 50. I sometime wish I only got 50 relevant important e-mails a day. The fact is I get close to 100 or more a day, and that is not including spam. They all require my attention, but thankfully not all of them require a response. So how do I deal with them?

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 Well it is time for the weekly photoshop post on Tenacious Creations. Filters and Actions are tools a photoshop artist can use to speed up their production. Although all the things that actions and filters can do can be done manually with photoshop (and most times a better result is achieved). Filters and Actions can greatly reduce the amount of time required to do these things.

 There are some things that I find just so much easier to use filters or actions for and some cases where I would prefer to do it by hand. I have a mix of bought filters and actions as well as free ones. Here is a list of sites of actions and filters that I find useful.

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 After a lot of prodding from various online friends I finally relented and joined Project Wonderful.

 Project Wonderful is all about making online advertising more profitable and easier for everyone involved. They say it is a transparent system for both the advertiser and publisher. It eliminates click fraud by getting rid of paying for clicks. Basically the advertiser bids for space on the site or sites of their choice. While they are the high bid their ad is displayed on the site. Ads are bid on a per day basis. For example at the time of writing this post if you look to the top left corner you will see the project wonderful ad. Currently is costs $0.20 per day to advertise on Tenacious Creations.

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 If you have ever had one of your posts Stumbled Upon or Dugg you know how much traffic a social networking site can bring you. If you are a stats fanatic like me then you have seen first hand the results Stumble Upon can have on your posts. My photoshop tutorial on peeling an image away to reveal another image was Stumbled Upon and the traffic soared. A few other posts of mine have been linked by other social networking sites. You can definitely see the traffic increase from this. So of course you want your readers to use social networking sites to mark your posts. But how do we make it easy for our users/ readers to do this?

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 Repetitive Stress Injury, or R.S.I. is something that most of us have heard about but tend to dismiss. Most of us know someone who has had to get surgery for carpotunnel syndrome. Or we have seen or heard of ergonomic designed chairs, desks, and computer keyboards. But it something that we general dismiss not give a second thought. However each year millions of man hours are lost due to preventable repetitive stress injuries.

 A lot of bloggers myself included spend vast amounts of time in front of their computer screens happily typing away. I am particularly bad for this because when I get coding (I feel there is a huge difference between programming and coding - perhaps this will be a future post) it is not all that uncommon for me to put in 20 + hours at the keyboard with out a break. In my younger days this never seemed to bother me. However as I age I notice that my eyes, fingers and even sometimes my arms feel the strain from these coding marathons. When you are in pain or uncomfortable it can make it difficult to concentrate and both your creativity and production drop. In today’s post I am going to give you some tips to prevent repetitive stress injuries when it come to working with a computer.

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