The internet is a pretty great resource for work or school, but it can also be an enormous distraction. timeStats is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to see how you spend your online time. A few clicks will get you a chart distribution of your internet activity, a couple more and you can get even more detailed reports. The reports break down your daily/weekly/monthly activities with awesome pie charts and bar graphs showing what you did on which day. It can also show you other details such as the sites, domain zones, and time spent in each category. Optional settings allow you to create and assign categories to different sites and get a more accurate report of your time usage. Now you can see how much net time was spent on 'Work' and 'Fun'.

Facebook time under 10%, a sign of unparalleled productivity!

Setting up is pretty easy; just install the extension from the Chrome store and you're ready to go. The interface is intuitive and there is no account required to sign up or fee to pay like some other time management programs (... [Read more]

Two things you won't get in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7: the new Metro-style, chromeless interface or the rich interactivity between the browser, the desktop, and pinned sites.

The first Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 has arrived, gifting many of its improvements to the older OS as Microsoft prepares to keep IE current beyond the gates of Windows 8.

"There's a long alphabet soup of new abilities that we've built into Internet Explorer 10," for Windows 7, said Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's general manager for IE, in a conversation last week at CNET's San Francisco office. In addition to porting over the new IE10 Chakra and JavaScript engines, IE 10 on Windows 7 also gets the Touch API innovations that help drive the browser on Windows 8; the security measures built into IE10 -- at least, the ones that are not dependent on Windows 8; location bar autocomplete; and the Do Not Track header will be turned on by default.

"Touch is the new fast," said Gavin, explaining that as the major browsers achieve similar speed benchmark scores, how they allow people to interact with touch screens will become a big part of which browser people end up using b... [Read more]