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Rescue Your Time With RescueTime

On the internet, losing all sense of time isn’t that hard. One link leads to another and suddenly we realize that we’ve spent an hour killing little stick figures in a flash game on some ad-laden site. Hey, a good bout of violence once in a while helps exercise the heart!

When I finally do get off and into the ‘real world,’ I’m asked–and wonder myself–how time passes so quickly. And frankly, the answer is – I don’t know. The interwebs are just that kind of place.

And that is where RescueTime comes in. RescueTime is free time management software that lets you see how much time you spend on the computer and internet, including where you spend it. It logs the time and places you visit on the internet, and can also record usage of regular programs such as a music player or word processor.
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