Tadam for OS X - we organize work stoppages (five codes for the reader)

New Year's holidays - is not only a time to make each other gifts, to meet old friends and all sorts of way to have fun, but also it is time to sift through the last year, to remember some important points, and sets himself goals and objectives for the next 12 months. Of course, many of our readers in the coming year, want to be more successful, productive and healthy.

Every educated physician will tell you that for health it is useful at certain intervals to take a break in the work, to move away from the computer monitor to knead muscles and so on. But in fact, not everyone can make themselves be interrupted by work process (be it writing another article, the development of a program module or just read Twitter). Any one of us may have noticed that with the active and exciting work at the computer while there in some other way - it is sometimes difficult to determine how much time you're sitting in front of monitor.

I always rather doubtful applied to various types of time-managers, utilities, and other techniques, the GTD. However, the other day I came across an interesting program

Tadam for OS XThat is hassle-free makes you regularly take breaks from work. In this article we will look at this application a bit more, and as a New Year surprise awaits you draw five promo codes.

In Tadam basis for OS X is a technique save time called «Pomodoro». We already wrote about this a while ago LayfhakereSo let yourself simply quote:

Technology did not come out of nowhere, for it has, and research and practice. It can be used both individually and in groups or pairs. Why tomatoes? Because the author used a kitchen timer in the form of tomato for time measurement. Briefly technique consists in drawing up a plan for the day, executable steps, equal to 25 minutes of continuous operation, and five minutes of rest, which are called Tomato (Pomodoro Italian). Four tomato It is time for a longer holiday (15-20 min.).

Tadam utility for OS X tastefully implements this concept. creator of the application (the talented 17-year-old developer from Poland named Radoslav) emphasized the minimalism and simplicity of the product "Tools that are used on a daily basis, must be simple. Especially the tools to improve productivity, otherwise they will just be wasting your time, and do not save it. They should be on hand at the moment when you need them, and not distract the rest of the».

We have to admit, the result of his work turned out really worthy. You simply start Tadam, specify the duration of the time interval (remember the 25 minutes traditional 'technique tomato "), and then starts counting time monitor that can be in the system menyubare your Mac. You can press the «Take a break», that before the end of the flange to go to rest, or «Give me more time», to stay for a few minutes at the computer monitor.

At the expiration of the allotted time in the middle of the screen there is a big black translucent panel that makes you stop working. The developer has taken into account the fact that you can simply drag it into the corner of the desktop, so after a few seconds, it returns to its place.

If circumstances do not tolerate any delay, you can always click «Get back to work» and continue. But do not abuse this opportunity, because health is always more expensive than any affairs.

Tadam the Mac App Store | 129 rubles

The developers have prepared for our readers a New Year gift: 5 redeem-code for Tadam application. To obtain one of the licenses, enough to share this review with their readers in Twitter (you can use the buttons below), and a link to a tweet leave in the comments to this post. A day after the publication will be randomly selected 5 winners who will receive a gift in the form of Tadam. Oh yeah, do not forget to zafollovit @MacRadar. Codes will be sent using private messages on Twitter, they can only send to subscribers.