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NewTabURL helps you stay on task with Merlin Mann's help
by Jason Clarke Sep 4th 2008 at 5:00PM
Love him or hate him, productivity blogger Merlin Mann has come up with a great way to help keep yourself on track. The idea is to avoid the seductions of the web by stopping a moment to make sure that you're spending your time on what you really want to be spending it on.In his blog post on the subject, Merlin describes opening folders full of bookmarks all in one go, which have the potential to suck up huge amounts of time. He therefore created a page on his site that asks him "Is this what you want to be doing right now?", and included it as the first bookmark in each of his folders of bookmarks.
While this is a great idea, if you don't operate the same way, opening complete folders of bookmarks all at once, this probably won't help you much. But what if you could set your browser to open this page by default every time you opened a blank new tab or new browser window?
With the NewTabURL extension for Firefox, you can do exactly that. Slick, and helpful.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Merlin said 5:56PM on 9-04-2008
Love you or hate you, Jason, thank you for mentioning this.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 6:28PM on 9-04-2008
We should probably put that on the comments section too.
I kid because I love!
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James said 10:17PM on 9-04-2008
i can't get the extension to work. What am I doing wrong?
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Elphizmo said 10:41AM on 9-05-2008
Nice! My new homepage.
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