About

Big Stretch is a free simple reminder tool that prompts a user to take regular breaks and helps prevent the symptoms of RSI. Alternatively it can be a simple reminder program to tell you when it’s your coffee break!

Example Reminder

The program will sit happily in your system tray (where the little icons are in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.) until a predefined time period of your choice arrives at which point a “balloon” will appear offering either RSI tips and advice or a message of your choosing.

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Settings

A reminder can be set for every 10 minutes to 3 hours with whatever message you like.

Reminder Example

Alerts are non-instrusive.

Requirements

This software requires the Microsoft DotNet 2.0 platform to be installed on your windows machine. The program itself will have a very small footprint; as low as 450kb.

Minimum System Setup

Operating System

2000, XP, Vista

Processor

Intel Pentium class processor (400 MHz or faster recommended)

Memory

64 MB RAM (128 MB Recommended)

Download

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Updates

v0.2 (released May 2008)

• Program completely rewritten
• Simplified Settings Interface
• More RSI Tips
• Setting / Tips now stored in XML documents
• Enable / Disable button now on settings page.

V0.1 (released August 2006)

• Initial Release