Parental control for Starcraft 2

I started playing Starcraft2 2 weeks ago and I am now completely addicted. As I have a work a and a family that I want to keep, I was trying to find a parental control software for me…

Looking inside Starcraft2 , there is still no parental control. At least no good enough to limit my time of play per week.

I tried Rescuetime as well but it is not possible to block an application. Wierd because it seems they clearly could but for whatever reason, you can only block some web site and not even all the time.

So the solution for me was timesheriff. It seems to be a very solid application. Very flexible (you can control your time per week, per day, …) It is not free but with a one month trial period, you have well the time to test the application or just give up playing the game.

As a note, I am limiting my game time to 4 hours a week so far. Seems to work fine for me.

Organize your contact on Outlook and Iphone

 

A couple of tips to organize your contacts on Outlook and on your iphone.

1) First you need to be able to synchronize your phone and Outlook.
The easiest solution by far is to use Itune: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386

2) Often, when trying to sync up between those 2 sofwares, you can create duplicate. Here is the best guide on the net to remove duplicate but also to do batch updates on your contacts list (copy one field to another one for part of your contact list for example):
http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/07/30/remove-duplicate-outlook-contacts/

3) When you have a huge list of contact on your iphone, it is hard to remember which friends or family you have to call from time to time to keep the relationship going. A nice way to “mark” those contacts is via the “favorite” option on the iphone:
http://www.touchtip.com/iphone-and-ipod-touch/iphone-tips-managing-your-iphone-contacts/