Find yourself wasting endless hours online, distracted by a constant litany of emails and pokes and pings? Can’t stay off Facebook for long enough to keep focused on your Great American Novel? Can’t stop compulsively checking the Bunny Blog? Then what you need is a healthy dose of the ironically-named Freedom.
Freedom is a donationware OS X app that shuts down your network communications for a specific period of time. Nothing short of a full reboot will revoke this shutdown.
A communication disruption can mean only one thing: productivity!
You have your choice between shutting down just your internet access or all access including your local network. You’ll need an administrator password to make it go.
Freedom is a handy escalation from another ironically-titled app I was using for a while, SelfControl, which disables access only to a specified list of URLs. If your only vice is espn.com or comaperiod.com, you can just block those sites. Me, I prefer the ironclad veil of silence of Freedom. I used to enjoy incredible productivity on airplanes, with zero distractions, but now even that is in threat. Freedom is here to liberate me. As a man once said, “Hell is other people.”
As another man once said, “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,” so here’s the link! Go get yourself some Freedom now!
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