I got distracted by that web based timesheet/expenses thing on another thread. It did lead me to a program which had part of it to "stay focussed" and blocked out certain websites for a certain length of time.
This was fee based and being a tight git didn't fancy paying money for something if I could avoid it.
What I am looking for is something that I can set a period of time (changeable - depending on mood) and during this time certain websites will be completely unavailable to me - Twitter, Pie and Bovril, Youtube, Facebook. I've seen extensions where I am only allowed on them for a set period of time each day. Or not allowed on them between 9am-5pm etc. This isn't what I am after. I am not bothered about this extension/program knowing what sites I visit before anyone states this obvious concern.
Does such a thing exist? And if not, why not?
I just want something that will prevent me going on a website(s) for say 45 minutes. Then I can go on them for x minuites. Then ban myself for say an hour.
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If such a thing existed Peasie this site would be empty.
Actually, the idea obviously exists as Accountancy Age stops me going on every month after I've viewed 8 articles.
I could pay the ransom to be allowed loose on it all of the time (£96 p.a.) but if I did then neither this site nor my clients would ever see or hear from me again.
I've heard of 3 of those 5 (I thought Pie and Bovril were just Midland cullinary delights!).
Anyway, if you did impose an excile on yourself from certain sites you would just spend all of your time tweaking the windows registry to bypass the security rather than spending the time on the sites.
Just come back and spend all of your time on here. At least most answers given are a form of CPD.
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I've heard of 3 of those 5 (I thought Pie and Bovril were just Midland cullinary delights!).
Anyway, if you did impose an excile on yourself from certain sites you would just spend all of your time tweaking the windows registry to bypass the security rather than spending the time on the sites.
That's the reason I was looking for a Chrome extension - so I could in desperation always cheat and use Internet Explorer. And with Pie and Bovril I could cheat as I have it as an app on my phone.
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Depending on your router, you might be able to achieve what you want via that. Log into the router via the HTML based configuration that most have, and look for a section entitled parental controls, content filtering or block sites (preferably with a schedule option).
Failing that, if you have Windows 7, you could possibly use the Parental Controls facility - which may also be present on Vista. This won't allow you to block specific websites, but it can be used to control what programs are used, so you could block your web browsers at certain times. The obvious disadvantage, though, would be that you then wouldn't be able to use the browsers if you needed to look up something in a work context.
The downside of both is that it's probably more of a chore than you'd like in order to change things on the basis you describe - i.e. to prevent yourself using a site for a specific period after you've been on it a little while. Both options are better suited to leaving the blocks in place for certain times of the day/night.
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Peasie, if you've got Norton then you can set up timers for internet access for certain users so you could set yourself up that certain sites are blocked from userid x and internet access is limited from userid y.
here's a link to the family features page of Norton :
The version that I use is just the standard Norton Internet Security suit which has it but also think htat it's in other versions such as 360.
HTH,
Shaun.
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