Learn touch-typing. 
With regular practice, you can easily ramp up to 40 words per minute and above, in a matter of four to six weeks. This will greatly help you reduce the time you take to get your work done.
Keyboard shortcuts (make the mouse redundant)! The best part of keyboard shortcuts is just that-shortcuts! They are mighty helpful in lessening the time spent on the computer. For example, if you want to see your desktop, it makes much more sense using the [WINDOWS]+ [D] combination rather than clicking on the ‘Show Desktop’ icon in your taskbar.
Exercises
The human
body was designed to perform tasks such as farming and hunting, rather than sitting at the table and hammering away at the keyboard. So even with the best of ergonomics, you are bound to put some stress on your shoulders, neck, and wrists. The best way to tone things up is by doing some very simple exercises. These will help both stretch and strengthen the muscles that you use. Here I have focused on stretching exercises for the neck, shoulders, and the wrists because these are the parts stressed the most. While exercises go a long way in prevention and advancement of these conditions, don’t do them if you already have advanced symptoms. The best thing to do then would be to consult a surgeon.
Broadly, there are two types of exercises-stretchers and strengtheners. There are exercises for every muscle group under both categories.
Here are a few Tips That Might Help
Choose the right monitor, one that has an adjustable angle with a flat screen. Pick one that has high dot pitch, that can support high refresh rates, and has a high pixel count (To change refresh rate, right-click on the desktop and go to ‘Properties I Settings I Advanced I Monitor I Monitor setting’. 
Set the refresh rate to at least 72 and above. This will depend on your monitor, so look up the manual for the maximum refresh rate for each resolution.)
Blink frequently. Once you make a conscious effort to do this, it will soon become a habit. If you are unfortunate enough to already be suffering from dry eyes, then use simple eye-drops such as Itone.
Look away from the computer screen regularly and also try to look at distant objects every so often.
Clean the screen frequently, using a damp cloth.
Reduce the glare on your screen coming from open windows, bright lights, etc.
Monitors: When is the last time you borrowed your mom’s eye drops
because your eyes burned after spending hours in front of the computer? If so, you may be suffering from CVS (Computer Vision Syndrome). Monitors come in all shapes and sizes, and nowadays almost all of them come with anti-glare treatment, which helps reduce radiation, static, and glare. This reduces eyestrain and the subsequent headache that arises from long hours in front of the screen. Most monitors let you adjust the angle of the monitor, especially vertically (remember you want the top of the screen to line up to or be just below eye level).
Household Cleaning Fluids and Anti Glare
In some cases the monitors are treated with an anti-glare film which is sensitive to ammonia-based fluids. This is important because most household glass cleaners are ammonia-based and these will ruin the anti-glare properties on your monitor. The best way to clean your monitor would be with ammonia-free fluids, or with plain water (don’t put the water on the screen directly-use a damp cloth
This Post is a part of our Ergonomic series. If you haven’t read the earlier posts click here or follow the link in the sidebar.
Some of us swear by the membrane ones, while others swear by the mechanical ones. While the mechanical ones produce a lot of noise, they are much more durable and most importantly, the latency period between keystrokes is less for the mechanical ones. This translates into less time required for doing the same amount of typing, and hence less injury!
Keyboards that claim to reduce your time by up to 20 to 30 percent are not always good. Before buying one, make sure that when you use the special ‘Cut’ or ‘Copy’ key located on one end of the keyboard, you are not moving your arms widely-this will damage the shoulder and is akin to reaching for the mouse.
The palm rest: Use the palm rest to rest your palms in-between typing spells ratherthan duringthetyping itself. If you sense using the [WINDOWS]+ [D] combination rather than clicking on the ‘Show Desktop’ icon in your taskbar.
August Dvorak invented the alternate Dvorak keyboard in an attempt to reduce the learning time for learning touch-typing, and to reduce the ‘distance that the fingers had to travel for doing the same amount of typing. The fingers have to travel2D times less on a Dvorak keyboard! The main reason is that the most commonly typed keys are immediately under the fingers (rather than in the Qwerty, where you have to move away often from the home keysasdf and ;Ikj. When using any typing software, the very first time you have to specify the keyboard layout (QWERTY or Dvorak) that you wish to work with.
With Dvorak, one should be able to reduce the learning time considerably. And guess what? Windows allows to you change the layout of your keyboard to Dvorak! In Windows XP, go to ‘Control panel I Regional Languages and Options I Languages I Details I Installed Services I Add |Input language (US English) and Layout (Dvorak)’. This brings out a small keyboard icon in the taskbar called the Language bar. You can now right-click this icon to obtain the choices for the Qwerty or the Dvorak keyboard. (In Windows 95/98/Me/20DO go to ‘Control panel’, double-click ‘Keyboard I Language Tab I Properties I United States Dvorak’)
