#macfreedom

[lord-canewaxer]

Contagious excitement is a Good Thing.

brushstrokesandshutterclicks said: This really is the best moment of my day so far. How exciting; it’s contagious!

Thank you!  It was so very exciting.  I know you'll love the tale when I get a moment to tell it.  I'm being really rather strict with myself and using Freedom to limit my internet time while I work (this programme is a must for me - I get too distracted otherwise!), but I will tell the story of the ridiculously exciting beast - I'll probably cheat and copy most of it from my journal! 

Hopefully this will be sooner, rather than later. 

I hope all is well with you, and you are weathering these grey days (at least - it's grey up here in the north)?

[barrylyga]

The internet is a glittering carnival of diversions, and that’s wonderful – until you need to get some work done.

Working in the Shed - Matt Gemmell

Apps like Freedom are a godsend, as are the times when I pack up the iPad and my Bluetooth keyboard and go write somewhere where the Internet cannot follow. I enjoy interacting online with people and sometimes feel guilty when I disconnect from social media for a few hours or even a few days, but at the end of the day, I want to be known for my novels, not my tweets.

[guiltbyproxy-blog]

If you're having trouble concentrating for nanowrimo, download macfreedom. They've got a 5 use trial, which I'm thinking will at least get me started and off tumblr. It's a progam for your computer that blocks the internet for a certain amount of time so that you can get shit done.

[findoutsomething-blog]

Freedom ain't free...but the money you spend on it might be the best $10 you ever spend

Let me check my email/facebook account over and over again...has so-and-so emailed/facebooked me yet? No, so-and-so has not emailed/facebooked you yet, because so-and-so actually doesn't give a crap about you. Or because so-and-so actually has a life - something you're in dire need of. And when I say 'you', of course I am talking about myself.

In my recent dilemma with 'disengaging from life', I find that technology is the worst thing that could happen to me. My stress and 'depression' are fueled by the things I once used to make my life better...mainly everything on the internet (to be fair, I think that the new obsession with texting is a culprit here as well). By relying on facebook and email (and texting rather than actually speaking out loud and hearing someone), I become too immobile, too dependent, too obsessed, too irrational, too bored and too boring.

I don't want to go too much into the issues I have with the way I 'communicate' with people these days, but I will anyway. Whatever happened to good old actually talking on the phone? I know people are busy in life but geez...Too much is misconstrued by text messaging, where tone is absent. And using facebook/email as the main source of 'communication' is just another way of saying - I'm just too busy/don't care enough about you to actually talk to you like a real live human being who has feelings and emotions and who wants to be valued as such...

Anyway, I digress... In order to reengage myself with life, I feel the need to break my dependency on (ok I will admit it - my addiction to) the internet. So-and-so hadn't messaged you when you checked 5 minutes ago and so-and-so probably won't message you in the next 5 minutes either. Breaking that dependency (addiction) is not as easy as it seems for me. I have just read about this app which can give you your freedom when you can't take it for yourself.

http://macfreedom.com/ You can block access to the internet (mac or windows) for a specified amount of time, or just to particular sites http://anti-social.cc/ (only for a mac, that one). There is a free trial which I have just downloaded. Here's hoping...

[gods-on-the-run]

Without a doubt, I could use this.