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Set Reminders For Visiting Websites & Block URLs For A Defined Time [Firefox]

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Wasting time online is nothing new for an avid internet user, and even more so if you work in a rather-relaxed environment and require browsing all day long for performance of your tasks. If you have been wasting too much time on distracting websites like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, then Time Limiter, a useful Firefox add-on, may be able to help you focus. This nifty tool blocks these time sinks, but a lot of others do that too, so why use Time Limiter, you ask? The extension not only blocks websites, but will also let you set reminders for visiting a certain domain later, making sure you don't forget where you were actually supposed to be heading. Additionally, the Advanced options allow you to block URLs for particular days and hours. Read More

Time Sink: Record & Generate Reports For Usage Time Of Mac Apps

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As much as you may convince yourself that you’re a productive, well focused and difficult to distract person when it comes down to work, the fact is that the internet is ruled by kittens and you just can’t get enough of them. For many people, especially those who work remotely, the temptation to check your Facebook feed or read an interesting article is sometimes too much to overcome, often leaving them wondering where the time went. Time Sink is an excellent Mac app, worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store, that tells you just how you’ve been spending your time. Not only does the app have an excellent interface, but is feature rich, allowing you to create ‘app pools’ to measure the time spent on a particular task which may involve using more than a single app. It additionally gives you the option to run either as an application window, or from the Menu Bar. At the same time, it supports an activity monitor in its Dock icon, which pretty much means you can’t escape the fact that you’re wasting precious time. Read More

5 Minute Break: Take Regular Breaks To Increase Productivity

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Working for long periods of time continuously without taking a break can make you really tired and exhausted. We think that if we work continuously, we can get more done in less time, but in reality, it lowers your overall productivity. If your job requires you to sit in front of the computer for long hours, it is advised that you take small breaks in between work to prevent eye and wrist muscle strain. Moreover, taking small breaks between work keeps your mind fresh and enables you to perform better in the long run. Previously, we have covered applications such as BreakTaker, an application that reminds you to take breaks after specified number of minutes when you are working on your PC, and Break Notifier, a tool that notifies you when its time to take a break by specifying break timings in a loop. Today, we have a portable application, called 5 Minute Break, that alarms you to take a 5 minute break away from your computer to keep your mind active and fresh at all times. Keep reading to find out more after the jump. Read More

View Time For Any City & Probable Activity At That Time [Chrome]

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Time zone converter lets you find out the current time for different cities across the world in a unique and interesting way. This handy chrome extension is customizable and you can add as many countries as you like. To add a time zone , simply enter the City name along with the Country name and hit Enter. As you do this, the country and city will instantly be added to the pop-up list, and will always be displayed. For instance, if you add San Francisco as a city and United States as a country, the time and the activity (is at office, is sleeping etc) for the city will be displayed in the pop-up. Google can also be used for the same purpose, but if you're short on time and frequently have to view different time zones, then Time zone converter provides you with a more simple way. Read More

iCal Time-Recording: Calculate Time Needed For An iCal Task [Mac]

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iCal is one of the popular default Mac apps; it is widely preferred as a great way to manage tasks, events, reminders and a to-do list. If you use iCal extensively, you might have felt the need to know how much time you are spending on your tasks. Your tasks are distributed among different calendars, and if you ever need to know how much time you need to put aside for a particular task, you will have to check it manually. iCal Time-Recording is a free Mac app that acts much like a plugin for iCal, and calculates the time spent on any one task. The app gives you weekly statistics, and lets you use it to either add tasks, or add and calculate time for tasks added in iCal. Read More

Finch: Track App Usage In Time & Tag Them Either Work Or Play In Mac [Paid]

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Some people are born workers, while others may stare blankly at a wall or have witty conversations with themselves rather than tackle the task at hand. At the end of the day, both types of people need to justify to themselves that they actually accomplished something, even if it’s just their job. For Mac users who find it increasingly difficult to concentrate on a single task, Finch is a Mac app available for $4.99 in the Mac App Store (free for today only) that allows you to record which apps you use, and tag them based on their usability, i.e., if you use an app for entertainment, you can mark it as such. Similarly, if you’ve used an app as part of your work, you can mark it likewise. The app can remember which apps you use for work and which are used for entertainment, and flag them automatically when they are launched. It records the time spent on a particular app and lets you view a summary of how you’ve spent the whole day. The concept behind the app is that, getting a visualization of how you spent your time on your system will help you curtail your unproductive activities or limit them to a certain extent. Read More

LiquidPlanner Brings Feature-Packed Project Management App To Android

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LiquidPlanner is a fast-flourishing project management-based web service that provides its clients with simple yet very effective tools to schedule organizational tasks, collaborate with teams and task groups, track project and task times, share files with required team members, and prepare detailed reports regarding project progress; all in real-time. The service also has a dedicated client for Android and iOS-powered devices through which you can always stay in sync with the updated LiquidPlanner content, and view all your projects, manage tasks, create new projects, tasks and subtasks, check and reply to comments, set milestones, indulge in team conversations, track task time and progress via graphical representation, assign project deadlines, and view file attachments on the go. In addition, the app lets you balance team resources, check any deadlines that are approaching the risk levels, and manage your team portfolios regarding any projects/tasks that you've already prioritized. Read More

Calculate Total Time Of Audio & Video Playlists With PlayTime

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Sometimes, while creating playlists, we want to create playlists according to the number of minutes they will last. For instance, if we are making a playlist of songs to listen to during a particular journey in our car, or we want to get a collection of songs together to play as background music in a party, we want to make sure that the music lasts for the whole time period and the songs are not repeated. Similarly, if you are planning a movie or TV series marathon to watch with your friends, you might want to know how long all the video files will last in order to make appropriate plans for having enough pop corns and drinks to last till the end of the session. What you can do is go to each file, check its properties, see its total running time and manually add them together to calculate the total running time, but that can turn out to be quite a time consuming and annoying task. Today, we have an application for Windows that automates the whole process and gives you the answer in an instant. PlayTime is a portable application for Windows that allows you calculate the total play time of a list of any type of music or video files. Read More

Timing lite: Track Usage Of Multiple Apps & Check Productivity [Mac]

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You’ve probably come across a million apps that force you to be productive, by either locking down all entertainment on your system, or forbidding you from opening sites like Facebook and Reddit, Facebook and Youtube, Facebook and icanhascheesebuger.com and, of course, just Facebook itself. The point is, most apps focus primarily on blocking Facebook, and some will occasionally block one or two other sites. If you’re already thinking of ways to get around such apps when you install them, then you are probably better off without one. As opposed to these negative reinforcement apps, you can go for Timing lite, a positive reinforcement app that presents you with a true picture of how you are spending your time on your Mac. The app details and classifies how you’ve spent your time, and even allows you to classify the use of certain apps as productive or unproductive. Read More

PomodoroApp: Advanced Pomodoro Tool With Detailed Progress Reports

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Pomodoro is a technique for productivity enhancement, which is meant to help you focus on completing tasks within a set time frame. Assuming “time is money”, what better way to utilize this asset than to use the Pomodoro technique. We have previously covered a number of Pomodoro related applications, such as Tomighty and CherryTomato. Though, this time, we have a  slightly more advanced Pomodoro application for you, known as PomodoroApp. With the help of this application, you can set a timer to help you complete a task within a set period of time. It has been designed to help you organize your tasks and to improve personal productivity using the Pomodoro Technique. The tool provides options for task management, GTD (getting things done) planning, tracking Pomodoro, track interruptions, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly stats and task integration. Read More

How To Block Time Wasting Websites Using Focal Filter & Unblock Them

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With millions of websites currently on the internet, it is very easy to get distracted from the work at hand. It starts with you opening a random link on YouTube or Facebook, and ends with an hour or two wasted before you even realize that you haven’t finished your work. Previously, we have covered  a lot of tools to help you increase your concentration, including web extensions, such as Website Blocker, an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to block specific time wasting websites, and desktop apps, such as Cold Turkey, an open source application to temporarily blocking predefined, custom websites and games. Today we have another, very simple and easy-to-use, website blocker for you, named FocalFilter. It allows you to block websites for pre-specified time intervals without making any confusing configurations. Once the timer is up, you have the option to unblock the websites or block them again for a specified time interval. Read More

yTimer2: Quickly Create & Manage Multiple Countdown Timers

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A good countdown timer allows you to keep an eye on the time left until the deadline is reached. If you are working on a project, it is very important that you keep good track of the passing time if you want to complete it before the submission date/ time arrives. We have previously covered timers including Free Countdown Timer, a lightweight reminder that reminds you about important tasks, and WatchMe that lets you create multiple timers, add description, choose custom sounds and select applications to run upon countdown completion,h however, you have to let the application keep running in the background at all times in order to keep the timer running. Today we have another countdown timer for you called yTimer2. It is an application for Windows that allows you to set up multiple countdown timers, receive audio and text notification alerts, and open files when the counter reaches zero. Unlike WatchMe, if you close yTimer2 when there are active timers in it, restarting the application will automatically load the timers with the correct remaining time. Time can be specified in days, hours, minutes and seconds. Read More

Correct / Manipulate Timestamps Of Your Files With NewFileTime

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Timestamps found in the properties of files contain information regarding when the file was created, when was it modified the last time and the most recent date and time when it was accessed by someone. This allows you to quickly search, as well as group together a certain cluster of files that were created, modified, or accessed at a particular date. For instance, if you want to find a bunch of photos that were created (taken) at a particular date, or even if you just remember the month, you can set the date filters that will narrow down the search and reduce the number of results. Then, you can easily find the required set of images from the results. Previously, we reviewed dtouch, an application that let you add and subtract time from the timestamps of files and folders, but it was limited in the sense that you could not define a particular time and date to the files. NewFileTime is a portable application that takes care of this problem, and lets you change timestamps for any file or folder. The application allows you to modify Date Modified, Date Created and Date Accessed timestamps of multiple files and folders in one go. You can either set a specific time, or add and delete pre-specified time from the current timestamps. Read More

How To Display Time From Multiple Cities Or Time Zones In Ubuntu [Tip]

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While tips for advanced configurations are of great help to end users, sometimes, it’s the small tips that one finds more useful. This is because, often apparently minor options can become a bit confusing to configure. In this post, we will provide you with one such tip for configuring time zone settings, allowing you to view multiple clocks within your Ubuntu system tray menu. Hit the jump to read more. Read More

WatchMe Lets You Add And Manage Timers For Multiple Tasks

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If you are in the habit of doing multiple tasks at a time and want to track the time spent on each task, WatchMe is worth a try. This timer application features extensive options to set timers, add alerts and manage timers for all your tasks. It lets you add timers for different tasks, and run them individually or simultaneously without conflicting with each other. You can add notes, set alerts and enable hotkeys for individual timers. The application allows you to view individual times for each task, as well as the total time. WatchMe can track time spent during work, and calculate hourly billing according to specified rates. It monitors how often you switch between your tasks, and the focus light informs you about your focus level. Read More

Add & Subtract Time From Time Stamps Of Files & Folders Using dtouch

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Whenever you create and store files on your computer, the modification and creation times of files and folders are embedded as time stamps in the respected item's Properties. Windows, by default, does not let you modify these time stamps, without making changes to the files. To make the change, you need to alter the file in some way or the other as you make a change, the time stamp also gets updated. But it does not mean that it's not plausible without modification. You can use a multitude of different applications to alter this time. One such we found is dtouch. The application is portable and lets you add or remove specific time spans to and from the time stamps of files and folders, without modifying the contents themselves. The application is capable of changing the time stamps of multiple files one go by just dragging and dropping them into the interface. More after the break. Read More

World Clocks: View Time From As Many As 400 Cities [Chrome]

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Whether you travel a lot or have to frequently talk to clients in different time zones, remembering how far ahead or back the time is in a particular city is, is never easy and calculating it is often frustrating. There’s the added drawback that you don’t know which country observes daylight saving time and which doesn’t. Chances are, somewhere out there, there is a genius who has come up with a way to unify time worldwide and he’s locked in an asylum. Until there is an easier way to remember time for different cities, World Clocks is a Chrome application that might help. The app opens a separate window with 6 clocks from leading world capitals which are added by default. You can add or remove a clock from other cities and view either digital or analogue clocks. Read More

History Plus: View Chrome History By Date, Domain And Time Slot

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Despite being a Chrome fan, there isn’t any denying that the Firefox History Manager is better. While both browsers save the same information as you browse web pages, Firefox actually lets users browse their history using different aspects of that saved information; you can filter history by date or by domain but Chrome just won't let you do that. Better History was a Chrome extension reviewed a while back that allowed you to sort pages in time slots but the extension only sorted the pages you visited post installation. History Plus is a Chrome extension that sorts your entire browsing history by date, time slot and by domain. Page visits to the same domain are listed in a hierarchical order. You can search history and filter results to show only pages visited today, yesterday, the previous week or last month. You can restrict it to showing only 100, 250, 500 or 1000 results when you search your history. Read More

Timerrr: Online Oven Timer Tells You When Your 60 Minutes Are Up

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Whether you’re in to baking or not, or have only vaguely heard of that room in your house called the Kitchen, you probably still know what a timer is. A timer isn’t just needed to time a boiling egg or your lap speed (that’s actually a stopwatch), they have other uses and having one on your computer might be a good idea. Timerrr is a a web application that offers you a digital version of the traditional oven timer. Granted that you there still isn’t any way to cook on your PC and that the disc drive can’t bake cookies, a timer can nevertheless be used to tell you when a specific time period has expired and you need to get started on a task. Read More

Time Your Tasks To Perfection With Timer For Windows Phone Mango

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Some people might argue that no matter how idiotic it sounds, normal phones do have a lot of advantages over smartphones. You can’t transfer data as easily to your Windows Phone 7 as you can to a dumb-phone with an SD card (you can't on iOS and Windows Phone, at least). You have lots of restrictions which were unheard of in the pre-smartphone era. There isn’t even a stock app for countdown timer and stopwatch in WP7. There have been quite a lot of good timer apps in the Marketplace for quite a while, but since Nodo did not allow its users to run apps in the background, you always had to keep the timer apps running in order for them to work properly. However, in Mango this restriction has been lifted, and you can use the new app named Timer, which is a simple countdown stopwatch that keeps running even after you quit the app. Read More