Freedom is the perfect New Year’s resolution, a simple productivity application that locks you away from the internet on Mac or Windows computers for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom frees you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create. At the end of your offline period, Freedom allows you back on the internet.

Sometimes it’s just better not to be surfing the tsunami. Selectively turning off is preferable, but if you haven’t got the discipline, turn it off at the source. This programme becomes your discipliner, the personal trainer who shouts “Concentrate, just another three minutes” from the sidelines. The fact that we should need something like this speaks volumes for the level of distraction and inability to filter it out that people are exeperiencing.

Who said: ‘If you don’t discipline yourself, you’ll find plenty out there willing to do it for you’?