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I'm a student with a Mac laptop on which I take notes. My school has an Internet network. I get distracted during class.

I found this wonderful Mac app called SelfControl, but activating and deactivating it multiple times a day is a real drag.

Is there a way I can schedule SelfControl, or otherwise schedule Internet accessibility, using an AppleScript or otherwise, in order to keep me on track during class? Preferably the solution should be just as "desperate Internet addict"-proof as is SelfControl.

(Full Disclosure: I authored this post during Accounting 1 class.)

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You could do a combination of iCal (suggested here User friendly way to schedule jobs in Mac OS X) and add all the naughty (using this term loosely) places into a daytime (school time) temp host file. So at certain times of the day you swap hosts file. So from 9-4 your host entry for www.facebook.com is 127.0.0.1.

Not the most awesome solution but it will work. Unless you surf via typing in the IP address -- but who does that? ;)

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