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Those tips are useful for those whose spend a lot of time working with a computer, watching TV and/or reading.

Doing such activities make you almost short sighted, which means  you will not be able to see things at distance clearly. Your eyes become used to see close objects, and therefore they become less able to see distant objects clearly.

Here are 3 tips to improve your eyesight naturally:

1- Every 30 to 60 minutes, stare at something distant for 30 seconds. This can be the wall at the end of the room or anything distant you can see through your window. This will improve your focus on distant objects, by preventing your eyes from being focused only on close objects.

2- Close one eye, stretch  your hand horizontally and put your finger in front of your face at the level of your nose. Look at your finger for few seconds then look at an object distant as far as you can see. Repeat this 20 to 30 times. Do the same for the other eye.

3- Node your head up (toward the ceiling) and down (toward your feet) like you’re nodding “yes” to someone. This will strengthen the muscles of your neck, enhancing thereby the blood circulation in your eyes. Nodding 100 times a day will give you the best results.

Excerpt from http://www.eruptingmind.com/tips-to-improve-eyesight/.

Gigapedia is free community where you can look for and share ebooks with people around the world. This community becomes almost mature now, making thousands of free ebooks available to you for free. You must register first in order to access links submitted by other users (Registration is simple and free), then you will be able even to add your comments, other mirrored links or even share your own ebooks.

Link: http://gigapedia.org

ArabicOpenCD Version 0.2 is now released.

ArabicOpenCD is an open project leaded by Djihed Afifi, and aims to create a collection CD that contains many of the open softwares needed by the Arabic user for daily tasks. This collection of softwares includes the most brillant of Design, Office utilities, Programming, Internet and other softwares.

This project is available for free on the internet; its contents are essentially oriented as open softwares for Windows users. The programs are almost completely internationalised and translated into Arabic language.

Simplified Naskh Arabic Font is released by Khaled Hosny. This font is characterized by its clarity and capability to represent letters and diacritics in their proper place.

Below is a snapshot that displays this font.

The seed of OpenBSD’s Arabic page in wikipedia is now cultivated.

The page isn’t completed yet, but there are efforts to edit and complete BSD and other Open Source OS pages in Arabic Wikipedia soon, isA.

You can access the page of OpenBSD here.

Note: It’s the right time to mention that Arabic Wikipedia needs more editors. With only 50,000 articles, Arabic Wiki is quite small relatively to other languages (like Hebrew for example who has less editors but more articles and efficiency). So everyone is invited to participate in any field because all kinds of editing, adding or reviewing in Wikipedia are appreciated.

The Arabic translation of gnome-commander is now finished.

The new release will include the fully completed Arabic translation.

You can get the translation .po file from here.

By the way, the new translated name of Gnome Commander is: فارس جنوم

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