MeeTimer is to the browser as Wakoopa is to the OS

MeetimerNothing like a little mobile-tech analogy for the late afternoon, I always say. When I started my "web-only" challenge by living life in a browser, I installed Wakoopa to help keep me honest. The application silently records what apps I use and then compiles the information for all to see. After a month, you can see I’ve used Firefox nearly exclusively. Unfortunately, I already knew I was using Firefox nearly exclusively. More important to me now is what am I using it for?

Enter MeeTimer, a 68 KB extension for Firefox that locally tracks how long I’m on various websites. The timer is shown at the bottom Firefox and you can see it counting away as you sit on a site. Hovering over the timer brings a pop-up box with information on the sites: you can list each individual site along with the time spent on it or you can group sites. I find the grouping to be useful from a productivity standpoint. For example, I can put my social sites (FeedFriend, Twitter, etc…) in a group called Social and have MeeTimer aggregate the time spent on them. If I see too many hours there, I can adjust my actions going foward in my Work sites, i.e.: Google Reader, TypePad, etc…

If you check my Wakoopa profile, you’ll see that I used Microsoft Excel for about 5 minutes last week. It’s worth noting the reason why I used, not the fact that I did. Honest truth: I was in a rush. I had all of five minutes before an appointment to check some spreadsheets (masters track results, if you must know) and I didn’t want to waste the time downloading them only to upload them back to Google Docs. Working in the clouds, isn’t quite seamless yet… it’s getting there, but we’ve got a ways to go.

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