‘Tools’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 6

If your computer permanently stopped working right now, this very instant, what would happen to your practice? How about your clients? Just how much will it cost — in time, money, or stress — to recover your tax and financial information, client records, and other critical practice data in the event of a minor computer disaster that can happen in just milliseconds? Two new articles in our practice building section help you to formulate a secure and reliable encrypted backup strategy that can save you money and may save your practice.

Frequent visitors will have noticed that we quietly refreshed a few elements of our site design a few days ago. What you might not have noticed, though, are some of the latest tools and tricks we’ve added. From accessing our mental health search engine via RSS to our new built-in printing facility, we hope the new features will make the site even easier to use.

Is your mouse giving you grief from too many hours spent pointing, clicking, and dragging your way across a desktop? If you’re a mental health practitioner working extensively with clients online, you probably cannot avoid the pointing, clicking, or dragging — but you can avoid the mouse. Just turn it upside down, cut off the cord, and call it a trackball instead. Or, like Kensington, call it the Expert Mouse Wireless.

BBEdit complements the more usual site-building tools with powerful text transformation capabilities that far exceed any available within the leading packages from Macromedia and Adobe. Our review has been updated to reflect some important feature enhancements and bug fixes in the latest version of the software.

If you are a practitioner who, like me, spends hours at the keyboard every day and writes a couple of hundred thousand words each year, it is probably only a matter of time before keyboard comfort — and the possibility of repetitive strain injury — becomes an issue that cannot be ignored. See our hands-on review of an ergonomic keyboard that takes the pain out of typing.