A couple of years ago, David Allen (of Getting Things Done fame) offered a 2 minute timer to assist people in sticking with the 2 minute rule when processing their inbox. He charges $10 for this which was $10 more than many bloggers and programmers were willing to pay for what is, apparently to them, an easy little piece of code that could be whipped out in about 2 minutes.

Hence, a number of freebie downloads. Here are 2, one for Mac and one for PC. I haven’t used the PC version since I don’t use my PC more than once a month, but LifeHacker liked it and that’s good enough for me.

Free downloads for a 2 minute timer:
Timer for Mac (click here for download page) by Cocoa developer Dan Messing at StuntBlog. This timer doesn’t make a really loud ding at the end of two minutes so you may want to have the volume turned up.

Timer for PC (click here for download page) by Blogger Avesh Jain
Who got a stylin’ write up on LifeHacker as the download of the day back in June 2006.