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Distraction is something evident with almost everybody. Especially people working over the internet, bloggers, writers, journalist can get distracted easily with latest and great of the social media, feeds, emails, IM and almost all flashy desktop softwares.

Recently i did a topic on how to efficiently save time, and improve productivity. But you won’t be productive until you pull the plug or apply some drastic measures to reduce distraction.

Here are 5 ways to help block distractions while going through your work.

1. Limit Time-Wasting Web Sites with LeechBlock (Firefox)

With Leechblock you can block all your addictive websites.You can specify the time periods and its GUI interface is pretty good. If you are an ace blogger but get easily distracted with the social stuffs, leechblock is your buddy! After from that LeechBlock is free, works wherever Firefox does.

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 As you would know Gmail is of the most coolest and useful web based email. I’m sure most of the gmail geeks atleast have two Gmail accounts for different purposes. But managing multiple accounts at once is kinda tough.

Here is where GMail Manager an extension for your favorite browser Firefox does the dirty job. Gmail Manager helps you manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications and displays them.

 An extensive list of gmail tools, scripts and addons compiled to really jazz up your favorite email app “Gmail”.

• Official Gmail Notifier from Google - Downloadable Windows/Mac application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.
• GMNotifier - More configurable notifier based on .NET (Via here)
• GTray - Another configurable Windows notifier includes XP welcome screen integration
• Google Toolbar with Gmail search - Official IE toolbar featuring one-click Gmail search
• Gmail Search Extension - Search your Gmail account from the Firefox search bar
• Gmail Tray - A search box for the Windows taskbar
• Gmail Notifier - Firefox extension, installs an icon on your toolbar that displays the amount of new messages in your inbox (previous post)
• Gmail-to - Associate all mailto: links with Gmail as opposed to Outlook
• Gmail-to Bookmarklet - Compose messages from your Gmail account from any page (previous post)

 Folks at Google Operating System has found code that suggest that Google Chat also known as Gtalk within Gmail may soon offer friend updates, similar to services offered by Plaxo.

Actually Google already offers this update service in Orkut and Picasa web albums. Besides this recently Google Feed Reader has recently started to displaying shared items from your Google Talk contacts. But i don’t get it why we need more of these lousy services that do nothing then cluttering your workspace.

For more check out the Google Operating System Blog.

The Gmail updates will probably gather all this information, merge it with recent activities from other Google services and display it in a continous stream, similar to Facebook’s newsfeed.