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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Hi,
I'm looking for software that will allow me to block specific website(s) on my computer, something like Temptation Blocker, but for OS X. Preferably free. Any suggestions? |
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Are you on 10.4 Tiger? If so, why not use Parental Controls?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Because you cannot turn on parental controls for an administrator user or a network account.
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Um, yeah. Why would you want to give someone administrator rights yet keep them from looking at websites? Since they have those privileges, they can override the limitation anyway, so what's the point?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Because it's not for "someone", it's for me. Temptation Blocker is a program that allows you to disable certain programs for a specific amount of time. I'm looking for something that can block websites. Perhaps I should have been more clear.
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I shot the sherrif.
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Or just run as a user account instead of admin and set things up how you want them. There's no reason to run as admin in OSX for 99% of people.
Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Reading that tempts me to write something like this for the Mac.
In the meantime, you could always edit /etc/hosts to have various websites redirect to void. E.g., add a line like: Code:
0.0.0.0 the-evil-site-you-cannot-help-but-visit.com Then, runCode:
lookupd -flushcache You may have to restart your browser as well. Afterwards, going to the-evil-site-you-cannot-help-but-visit.com will fail, since the browser will think that DNS name resolves to the IP address 0.0.0.0. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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And since someone's bound to ask, I'll even save Brad the trouble and give you the link to his step by step on how to edit the hosts file. |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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I really don't get this. You're trying to keep yourself from going to some websites? Have some self control. Put a picture of your mother on your desktop.
You had me at asl ....... |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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i'm really, really happy for you that you've discovered the focus and determination that allows you to be 100% productive while working at a computer. in fact, i'm a little jealous of your iron will and nerves of steel. if i had your self control, i obviously wouldn't have posted this. in fact, i probably wouldn't be on this website at all. unfortunately--as evidenced by the very existence of a program like temptation blocker, some of the rest of us mere mortals are capable of getting sucked in by the myriad distractions of world wide web when we should be doing other things. i'm sure looking at my mother's picture will really help me from procrastinating on ebay when i should be writing my thesis. thanks for your suggestion, and your invaluble contribution to this post. |
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rams it
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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Okay, I wasn't thinking you needed to block ebay.
sorry |
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Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Denmark
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Once I didn't have this habit of procrastinating, but then I started getting addicted to lurking around here. Now I'm getting waayyy to little sleep. |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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Come to think of it, this sight is probably part of the reason I failed a number of Trig and World History tests this past year, haha. It's a good kind of addiction, if such a thing exists.
But yeah, this is a really good idea. Maybe, as my first real Mac programming project, I'll write a simple GUI program that reads/writes to the hosts file to block websites you give it, or unblock them as the case may be. Time to fire up Xcode. |
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