x.minutes.at: make a time-limited visit to any website

We've all said this to ourselves at one time or another: "Oh, I'll just read Wikipedia for another 15 minutes, then I'm going to do my work." Then two hours pass, but the work remains unfinished. Oops! x.minutes.at is a site that lets you keep those promises to yourself, through the magic of technology. By magic, I mean that the site you're viewing automatically closes after a specified time limit.

So, if you wanted to read Download Squad for 20 minutes -- hey, feel free to stick around longer, this is just hypothetical -- you could go to 20.minutes.at/downloadsquad.com, and your timer would automatically be set. Follow a similar formula of the time limit (.minutes.at/, and then the site address) to set your timer for practically any site on the Web. It doesn't work well with Gmail and Google Reader, unfortunately, but most anything else is fair game.

x.minutes.at also offers bookmarklets to time-limit the current site, and you can use it in stopwatch mode by entering http://howmany.minutes.at, instead of a number. I'm almost afraid to use stopwatch mode, because I don't want how much time I spend at TVtropes.org on a given day.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: browsing, stopwatch, time limit, TimeLimit, timer, x.minutes.at