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• Focus: Become a concentration ninja

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Distraction, Distractions, Focus, Top

  Getting to done site Lifehack.org has written up ten tips for developing your powers of concentration. If you're tired of being distracted and need some help, these are well worth a rea -look, a penny! What was I saying? Oh, yes. Many of these are old hat: cut off the noise, clarify your objectives, and structure your environment. However, this

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• Featured Firefox Extension: Stop time-wasting browsing with LeechBlock

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Distraction, Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Focus, Top

  Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The LeechBlock Firefox extension blocks sets of time-wasting web sites during user-specified time intervals. LeechBlock is a lot like Lifehacker's Invisibility Cloak Greasemonkey script in extension form, offering an easy-to-use graphical user interface for putting together and then blocking your biggest time-wasting

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• Distraction: Laptops in Meetings a Double-Edged Sword

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Distraction, Laptops, Meetings, Netiquette, Office Culture

  You're in a meeting with your laptop: Are you checking email or paying attention to the speaker? Um, can you repeat the question? you ask. You need your lappie to look up information and take notes, right? But a lot of people—and you know who you are—use the computer to check scores and IM during the painful office get-togethers.

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• Ask The Readers: What Are Your Guerrilla Office Tactics?

  Published: October 1, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Ask The Readers, Distraction, Productivity, Top

  methods of cutting through distraction—whether at home, the workplace, or your email inbox—but sometimes we need to surpass conventional distraction-filtering methods and get a bit more creative. Weblog 43 Folders rounds up six guerrilla office tactics that can help you avoid common distractions. For example: Smoking the bacn -

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• Shopping: Twelve million American workers shop online ...

  Published: October 5, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Conference Call, Distraction, Shopping

  Twelve million American workers shop online during work-related conference calls, according to a recent poll. We can't say we blame you, but if you're interested, here are a few tips to help you focus during that next call. [via]

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• Featured Download: Access Webapps in a Distraction-Free Browser with WebRunner

  Published: October 5, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Browsers, Distraction, Featured Download, Firefox, Mozilla, Top, Web Browsers

  browser WebRunner offers distraction-free access to specific web applications (like Gmail), and integrates them into the desktop with an easy launch shortcut: WebRunner is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It's

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• Multitask Without Losing Your Mind [How To]

  Published: October 25, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Distraction, How To, Mind Hacks, Multitasking, Productivity

  Multitasking is a tempting way to get more things done in less time, but web site WebMD says that multitasking often comes at the detriment of some tasks, especially learning:"Results are always worse when you multitask, but in some areas they're especially compromised," says Russell Poldrack, PhD, associate professor of psychology at UCLA.

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• Run a Better Google Talk on Your Desktop with Prism [Mozilla]

  Published: October 29, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Browsers, Distraction, Firefox, Mozilla, Prism, Web Applications, Web Browsers

  Ever since Google updated the web-based Google Talk gadget, I've firmly felt that the web-based Google Talk is head and shoulders above the desktop client (if you don't need file transfer or voice calls, that is). Last week we told you about Prism, Mozilla's update to the stripped-down browser and web application environment WebRunner. Put the two

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• Burnt out or just busy?

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Blogs And Blogging, Blogging, Distraction, Exhausted

  jaiku and twitter is a bad distraction too. I think I’m just mentally exhausted with the busy days and lack of sleep. Putting my feet up, being lazy and watching TV seems like a better option for now. I do have to make a conscious effort to post short snippets, quotes and references on my scrapbook instead. I know what I need … a

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• Control Your Workday with a Game Plan [Productivity]

  Published: November 18, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Distraction, Multitasking, Productivity

  A short NY Times piece published today tackles productivity problems in the modern workplace. To summarize, they are: multitasking (bad, work sequentially instead), email (check it less, process it more), and long, paralyzing to-do lists. One productivity expert actually recommends that companies should restrict internet access for their

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• Enhance Online Video Watching with Zorro [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: February 28, 2008, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Video, Distraction, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Online Video, Television, Top, Utilities, Web Browsers, Windows

  Zorro aims to take distractions like flashy ads out of your online video watching experience. It does so by blacking out all content that isn't your video, including your browser window, so it's just you and your video. Zorro is brilliant in its simplicity: it's basically a see-through application window, so you launch it, resize it so

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• Womankind idleness is the devil's work

  Published: March 1, 2008, 10:50 am

  Tags: Busy, Distraction

  It's great to be a woman in today's world because we are always busy and never bored. I'm so busy right now I hardly have a minute to write, but no matter, because most of my writing is already written a week ahead of time, which means I just have to push the publish' button. I rarely do real time.'Meanwhile I do laundry, wash, dry, fold

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• Wordy Wednesday deep proprioceptive input

  Published: March 11, 2008, 1:35 pm

  Tags: Self Calming, Squish, Organizing, Distraction

  Ms. Wordy Wednesday is alarmed on arrival. Good grief Maddy! Is he o.k.? What did you do to the little chap? What is that huge thing on him? Or was it an accident? Is that a tooth brush in his mouth? Did he choke? Um where should I start? That big blue thing is a wedge, shaped like a slice of cake and we use it to do some amateur

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• ‘the criminals are on the run’

  Published: May 25, 2008, 7:27 am

  Tags: Corruption In Govt, News, Politics, Beth Chapman, Congressional Subpoena, Duane Dog Chapman, Karl Rove, Country, And, Arrest, The, Highest Profile, Fugitive, Pillsbury, Doughboy, Ass, Cowering, Arms, Rove, Jail, Beth, Huntress, Closure, Much Needed, Distraction, Slap, Handcuffs

  “In an earlier era the Sergeant of Arms would arrest Rove and jail him in the basement of the Capitol building. But in our post-modern media age I suggest a more suitable course of action: Congress should hire “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” (Duane Lee Chapman), to hunt down Rove on national television. It would be [...]

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• Are We Financially Worse Off Than Our Parents?

  Published: June 30, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: Money, Distraction, Finance, Generation, Money Management

  generations. Financial Distractions I believe the answer to the question is financial distractions. Today, we have more financial distractions than ever before. For someone that has lived through many transitions, I can share a few examples: Car Leasing I don’t remember the exact time that auto leasing became popular, but I

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