{"id":333,"date":"2005-08-09T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:45","slug":"free_software_temptation_blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/08\/09\/free_software_temptation_blocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Software: Temptation Blocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Are addicted to a certain web site or to certain software? Then maybe you need help&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m in front of my computer constantly and a program I\u2019ve been wanting for a long time is one that would allow me to block certain programs from myself for a set amount of time. A way for the smart part of me to head off the dumb, impulsive lizard part, and a way for me to get more stuff done at the computer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, have a major deadline looming or ripe opportunity closing and just don\u2019t have time to waste playing Half Life 2 or checking Bloglines one last time? Well then, add Half Life 2 and Firefox to the list of programs you want to block in Temptation Blocker, set the timer for how long you want to block them and then hit the \u201cGet Work Done!\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p>Now, everytime you try and access Half Life 2 or Firefox, you\u2019ll get a dialog box telling you how much time you have left before you can access that program. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried it, but it sounds interesting. Read more about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webjillion.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/01\/free-software-temptation-blocker\">http:\/\/www.webjillion.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/01\/free-software-temptation-blocker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are addicted to a certain web site or to certain software? Then maybe you need help&#8230; I\u2019m in front of my computer constantly and a program I\u2019ve been wanting for a long time is one that would allow me to block certain programs from myself for a set amount of time. A way for the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-software-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}