Take A Pause! is a nice utility that counts the time you spend working and "forces" you to stop for a while regularly. It installs itself as a little icon in the menu bar and when the working period is over, it blocks the screen preventing you from doing anything until the pause period is over.

The main menu is accessible by clicking on the Take A Pause! icon in the menu bar. Besides the standard menu items, it provides the following functionalities:
• An indication of how many mintues are left before the next pause starts.
• Disable: Allows the user to temporarily disable Take A Pause!
• Check for updates: Automatically downloads and install updates, if present.

The preferences panel contains two sections: General and Updates.
In the General section you can customize the work and pause interval, and activate some more options:
• Postpone the pause: Allows the user to postpone the pause by the given amout of time. This is done by clicking on the postpone button once the screen is locked.
• Give up the pause: Allows the user to completely give up the pause.
• Restart if idle: Resets the minutes-to-next pause counter to the work interval if the user is idle for more than the given amount of time.
• Changes to the work interval will be effective after the next pause terminates.
In the Updates section you can enable or disable the application updates checking at startup.

Requirements:
OS X 10.4.4-10.6
Universal Binary

Limitations:
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