LeechBlock – Firefox productivity extension

Just been pointed to a rather nice little Firefox addons called Leechblock by a post over on Blog Clout.

LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them.

The idea of the extension is that you can block groups of sites for specified periods of time - either an amount of time per hour/ day/ week (eg you can access the sites for 10 minutes an hour) or between certain times of the day. The plugin is only really as good as your conscience as it is trivial to disable but it's a nice way to warn yourself that you are doing something too much, when you should be working.