Cool Websites and Tools [December 22nd 2011]

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OKITE â€" For some people, the snooze button on alarm clocks is a useful feature. But for most people the snooze button is just another way of ignoring the alarm clock completely. Sleepy people keep hitting the snooze button and fail to wake up when they should. Here to discourage you from using the snooze button is an alarm clock called OKITE. Read more: OKITE: An Alarm Clock Thats Sends An Embarrassing Tweet When You Hit The Snooze Button

My American Farm â€" A large number of children are unaware of the agricultural process and how food is processed. To help teachers better explain the process to students is a web service called My American Farm, a web service that provides â€˜funducationalâ€™ games to help children learn about agriculture and food processing. Read more: My American Farm: Use Games To Teach Children About Agriculture

Surf Control â€" People whose work is primarily done on computers often find themselves distracted by sites such as YouTube and Facebook. At the end of the day, these sites adversely affect a personâ€™s overall productivity. Here to help you realize how much of your time is wasted on such sites is a tool called Surf Control, a browser add-on for Mozilla Firefox. Read more: Surf Control: See How Much Of Work Time Is Wasted On Facebook & Other Sites [Firefox]

Twitter To RSS â€" Viewing your Twitter stream is a lot like reading an RSS feed. There are multiple entries that you have to read one after the other. Merging your Twitter stream with your RSS reader would save you the time otherwise spent opening up a new browser tab particularly for Twitter. Here to help you make that merger is a web service called Twitter to RSS. Read more: Twitter To RSS: Read Twitter Streams Via RSS Feed

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