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That's nice you can buy third party gift cards with Amazon credits/gift card balance. I thought it was pretty much determined that this couldn't be done.

Edit: OP, did you purchase one of these? The only reason I ask is that I tried using my gift credit for the card ($25, just like in your experiment) and it wasn't a payment option for me. The site allows me to use the mTurk-earned credit towards other physical products like books, however.

I was thinking of investing in a special keyboard just for macros and keyboard shortcuts that you could program onto any key, basically a dedicated Turking keyboard. I really want something with keys that are pretty uniform in position too, and this one for $70 is looking like a pretty good fit. I'll give it a shot in a few weeks and see how it holds up.

Get an external mouse asap, potentially an external keyboard as well. Laptops are horrible for your posture.

Sit at a desk if possible, or on a table at least. Don't put it in your lap.

Maintain a fully-extended arms distance from the monitor.

Take breaks, look at something far away for 10s or so every few minutes to help your eyes not be fatigued.

EDIT: I submitted this before looking, but I picked up this mouse for use at my job. It takes a few days to get used to, but I actually like it a lot. It doesn't hurt my wrist.

Source: Full time sysadmin; day job on a computer, free time on a computer.

I use 'em. They work for me I think. I mean I think it's more than placebo effect because I tend to notice pretty quickly that my eyes are feeling strain when I forget to put them on.

I use these ones: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078BKK9TV/ref=twister_B07CKP6CPZ?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

Edit: Something else to consider is screen brightness. I'd already had my brightness dimmed, and that's when my eye doctor recommended the glasses to filter blue light to help further reduce eye strain.

I'll be going through my own thought processes in analyzing tasks to decide how I'll script a HIT to make it more efficient in my course.

But in the meantime, I'd definitely read anything Edward DeBono has written about thinking (and creative thinking in particular). He's my guru when it comes to creative thinking applied practically to real problems.

As someone who has succeeded in unconventional ways over the past few years, his model of how thinking works was a major paradigm shift for me years ago.

There are a few books that I hold as classics, but his book, The Mechanism of Mind, is my hands-down favorite. It's the most impactful book I've ever read.

I honestly love this whole discussion about punctuation.

There is actually an entire BOOK about the semicolon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F13BLCT/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

I saved up and got this: http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-AVH-4100NEX-Multimedia-Receiver-Touchscreen/dp/B00SKJPKGW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463682374&sr=8-1&keywords=4100nex

Found an open box for $375. Took me like 2.5 months to save up $400.

Yeah, I'm sure they meant 'fish', but it could've been something like this. ;-)

Take it one step further and get a high quality trackball. Not only will you take strain off your wrist and arm, most people find them to be much more efficient and accurate to use.

I haven't used a mouse (at my own desk anyway) for over fifteen years.




EDIT: These are the two i have and recommend:




Microsoft Trackball explorer. Been on my desk for over a decade.

Logitech TrackMan Marble FX

Ignor the high prices in those links, they can be found much much cheaper.

I use the Zalman zm-mic1. It is super sensitive, so you'll need a quiet place to do recordings. Costs about $8 and clips to your headphone cable.

Edit: I should clarify, I use mine for gaming, not doing recording hits. I haven't done those.

Anything on here is better and way cheaper
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=490924011

EDIT, I also wanted to note that here this looks exactly what you're looking for for 40 bucks

>already flirting with Athlete's Foot 40 hours a week

Injinji socks.

I shit you not. These socks are the bomb for that kind of thing. I have curled-under pinky toes, and these save me from blisters and hot spots. My husband wears them in his security-guard boots, and they have saved his feet from athlete's foot, blisters, etc.

I'm also wondering this. I use Wreally (https://transcribe.wreally.com/) for transcription and wonder if a foot pedal would help. I've been looking at this one - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002MY6I7G/. But I don't know anything about it beyond reading the reviews.

The short answer is that literally any headset that you can cable to your computer will work.

The long answer is that the quality of the voice recording and the sensitivity of the microphone varies wildly.

I picked up a pair of Turtle Beach X42s for gaming after my X31s broke, both of which are Xbox 30 headsets. After about $20 in cabling I can connect it to my Xbone and laptop and I use it for everything. It's extremely sensitive on the Xbone and PC though, to the point where I have to take the batteries out of my analog clocks and turn off my ceiling fan because the microphone picks them up.

On the flip side, my very first PC headset was a $15 Logitech and the voice recording quality made it sound like the headset was inside of a sofa cushion at the other end of the room.

As far as worth it, I'd say so. Once I unleashed my headset on voice recording HITs I made the cost back in under a week, and I've yet to come across a voice recording HIT that wasn't worth doing. It also appears that X42s have gotten a lot cheaper since my pair cost just under a c-note when I bought them.

Anyone that's turked for more than a week should already know all that. And a $13 gaming mouse and autokey works just as well as a $60 logitech mouse.

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-960-000585-HD-Webcam-C310/dp/B003LVZO8S/ref=zg_bs_172511_2

How's that one look? I have a $25 promo credit from an order that amazon messed up, but don't have prime. I'd have to figure out what else to buy for 10 bucks...

You haven't refuted anything I've said. You might want to read this. https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465060730

You want Pigma Microns.

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