Tag: CLOCK

With apologies to the linguistic sensitivities of any Americans that may be reading, feast your eyes upon The Colour Clock. Whether you're looking for colorific inspiration for a website you're designing, or merely looking for an attractive and easy to read clock, The Colour Clock is for you. By default you get the current time, but you can click a button to show the current HEX value of the ...

I was recently playing around with Windows Gadgets, trying to find a decent clock gadget for multiple timezones. Selection was pretty grim, and I ended up settling for an okay-looking gadget, just because I was sick and tired of searching. Then, I was reminded of TimeLeft; it's a true classic. It's one of those modest utilities that has been around pretty much forever (check out the Windows XP ...

HumanClock.com is a fun little site, letting you view the current time in photo form. The time in the screenshot above is 2:10 (there's a 24-hour option as well). Sometimes figuring what time the image shows is a bit of a riddle, but that's part of the fun for me. The site isn't new -- it's been around since 2001. Since it has been around for so long, quite a few images have accumulated for ...

I'm a procrastinator. If something needs to be done by 2:00 PM, I'll often finish it at 1:59. My procrastinating tendencies sometimes make me late though. Like many people I've tried the old "set your clock ahead 15 minutes" trick, but it doesn't work -- I just find myself mentally calculating every time I look at one of my clocks. This week Component X released an interesting little Mac utility ...

Between the sundial, the dawn of digital watches and now cell phones taking a big dent out of the watch business, I'm not sure why you would need a clock in a browser, let alone one requiring an internet connection. Perhaps you sleep with your netbook by your bedside, complete with relaxing pzizz or other ambient noises. Or maybe you have an Ozymandias-style lair complete with dozens of monitors. ...

FaaRClock 1.0 is a program for Windows that displays a simple and very readable analog clock as your computer's screensaver. We're almost positive that this is the screensaver Flavor Flav has installed on his computer. The download and install is simple. Upon existing the installation, you'll be prompted to make FaaRClock your default screensaver. Additional settings are available in the ...

This year Daylight Saving Time went screwy. Or to put it another way, Daylight Saving Time goes into effect this weekend. If this were 2006, it would have happened last weekend. You can thank Congress for the change. All of this might seem like mere trivia if it weren't for the fact that older PDAs, cellphones, VCRs, and pretty much any other device that's programmed to automatically adjust for ...

Ask has a helpful little feature in all searches that have to do with local information. A clock is now embedded on the right hand side of the screen, with the time clicking by in seconds. The date is also present, with current weather conditions underneath. Thanks Ask. This is an extremely handy feature when researching new locations for travel or business, and a first of its kind for search ...

FuzzyClock is a human-readable clock that you can use to replace the default clock in your menubar on a Mac. Of course all clocks are "human-readable", but FuzzyClock takes it one step further, by describing the time in the terms that you might use to describe it to someone else. For example, instead of seeing 4:15 in your menubar, you'd see "quarter past four". Having to read the time ...

Microsoft has issued yet another Daylight Saving Time update for Windows Mobile devices. This patch should fix a problem with the patch released last week. So let's review. First, Microsoft posted instructions for manufacturers to develop their own DST fixes. Then some enterprising power users decided to make their own updates rather than wait for their PDA manufacturers to do so. Next, Microsoft ...

Okay, seriously, I promise this is (one of) the last time(s) we'll be talking about the upcoming Daylight Saving Time change. A quick refresher, Congress passed a law moving up Daylight Saving Time starting this year, so it begins on March 11th, meaning you have to change your clocks much earlier this year than you're used to. While your computer will probably automatically adjust itself, if ...

Back in December, Microsoft issued instructions for updating Windows Mobile clocks to support a change in daylight saving time which comes several weeks earlier this year than in the past. But those instructions were really meant for hardware makers, and we expected PDA manufacturers to issue updates on their own. That never really happened. Last month, an enterprising individual put together an ...

Ever wish your Smartphone or Pocket PC kept better time? SmartTimeSync is a simple little utility that will connect to the NTP server and sync your PDA clock with the atomic clock. Of course, you could do the same thing by keeping your Windows Mobile clock synchronized with your PC clock and setting your PC to synchronize with the atomic clock, but where's the fun in that? You're not a real PDA ...

Daylight Saving Time starts on March 11th this year. That's several weeks earlier than usual, and as we pointed out in December, if you have a Windows Mobile device, it will not automatically adjust the time until April, when it thinks Daylight Saving Time begins. Microsoft went and put up a web page explaining how to adjust your device's registry to fix the problem. But the instructions are ...

Here's a neat little utility with questionable usefulness and a less-than-intuitive UI - but, yes, it's neat. AmbientClock pulls appointments from your Google Calendar and maps them along a circular analog clock. You can also add a secondary calendar (such as that of a co-worker or spouse) for a visual representation of schedule conflicts. So far, I can't really see what AmbientClock accomplishes ...