xpgeek
11-05-2006, 03:01 AM
I found this today browsing around, and I really like it. Its small (installed size about 4 megs), lite (using 5 megs of ram), and has some pretty nice features, like its calendar I really like, and its atomic time synchronization, which synchronizes down to the millisecond.
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AlfaClock Free Edition
AlfaClock Free Edition enhances your taskbar clock (tray clock) with fully customizable clock display, alarms, time synchronization, popup calendar, time speaking and more.
Main AlfaClock Free Edition features:
* Enhancement for the Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP taskbar clock (tray clock), that displays the time, date and other information in any format (without using lots of little icons).
* Atomic time synchronization. Synchronize clock with Internet Atomic Time Servers.
* Announce the date, time, or both, at specified intervals.
* Powerful alarms, each of which can display a message, play a sound, or run a program.
* Powerful Calendar feature. The calendar shows a month at a time, and has options to include week numbers (determined according to ISO8601), highlight weekends, and change the first day of the week. You can now also choose a font and a color for the calendar.
* Date/time copy to clipboard. Copy date, time, and other info to the clipboard using any format you wish.
This version contains bug fixes, numerous improvements and new features.
Latest Version: Free Edition
What's new in this version.
version "Free Edition" - May 2006
AlfaClock Free Edition is a fully redeveloped version of AlfaClock.
To fix the stored up bugs and to avoid new ones we had to write AlfaClock from scratch. As a result AlfaClock Classic is of less space but works faster and is more stable. All problems with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 are left behind as well as the conflicts with such products as StyleXP, Windows Blinds, TraySaver, etc.
The program as a whole:
* Now AlfaClock are stored separately for each user. Every user can configure AlfaClock to his/her liking.
* The Multilingual User Interface support has been added. Now you can "communicate" with AlfaClock in your mother tongue. If your native language isn't available in the list - no problem - you can translate the program interface into your native language yourself.
* Additional program settings including system-wide hotkeys, web-updates have been processed and improved.
Taskbar Clock:
* Unique feature: 100% full support of Windows XP Visual Styles (Themes). AlfaClock accurately determines all taskbar clock settings with enabled Visual Styles (Themes). We have no information on any other software product with the similar feature.
* Tooltip contains more features: the multi-line mode is supported, the graphic bugs in Windows XP were fixed.
* Taskbar Clock became faster and more stable on the whole, all known problem situations being processed.
Atomic Clock:
* A new faster and more stable "engine" is used to work with precise time.
* Server lists for different protocols - SNTP and Time are stored separately. The destination is specified for the servers. The servers in the list can be temporary disabled but not deleted.
* The log (the events.log file) with all Atomic Clock events is kept.
Calendar:
* The "Stay on top" option was added.
... and a lot of minor changes and improvements.
Homepage and Download (http://www.alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/)
http://www.alfasoftweb.com/images/alfaclock_classic_large.png
Freeware and spyware and adware free.
AlfaClock Free Edition
AlfaClock Free Edition enhances your taskbar clock (tray clock) with fully customizable clock display, alarms, time synchronization, popup calendar, time speaking and more.
Main AlfaClock Free Edition features:
* Enhancement for the Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP taskbar clock (tray clock), that displays the time, date and other information in any format (without using lots of little icons).
* Atomic time synchronization. Synchronize clock with Internet Atomic Time Servers.
* Announce the date, time, or both, at specified intervals.
* Powerful alarms, each of which can display a message, play a sound, or run a program.
* Powerful Calendar feature. The calendar shows a month at a time, and has options to include week numbers (determined according to ISO8601), highlight weekends, and change the first day of the week. You can now also choose a font and a color for the calendar.
* Date/time copy to clipboard. Copy date, time, and other info to the clipboard using any format you wish.
This version contains bug fixes, numerous improvements and new features.
Latest Version: Free Edition
What's new in this version.
version "Free Edition" - May 2006
AlfaClock Free Edition is a fully redeveloped version of AlfaClock.
To fix the stored up bugs and to avoid new ones we had to write AlfaClock from scratch. As a result AlfaClock Classic is of less space but works faster and is more stable. All problems with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 are left behind as well as the conflicts with such products as StyleXP, Windows Blinds, TraySaver, etc.
The program as a whole:
* Now AlfaClock are stored separately for each user. Every user can configure AlfaClock to his/her liking.
* The Multilingual User Interface support has been added. Now you can "communicate" with AlfaClock in your mother tongue. If your native language isn't available in the list - no problem - you can translate the program interface into your native language yourself.
* Additional program settings including system-wide hotkeys, web-updates have been processed and improved.
Taskbar Clock:
* Unique feature: 100% full support of Windows XP Visual Styles (Themes). AlfaClock accurately determines all taskbar clock settings with enabled Visual Styles (Themes). We have no information on any other software product with the similar feature.
* Tooltip contains more features: the multi-line mode is supported, the graphic bugs in Windows XP were fixed.
* Taskbar Clock became faster and more stable on the whole, all known problem situations being processed.
Atomic Clock:
* A new faster and more stable "engine" is used to work with precise time.
* Server lists for different protocols - SNTP and Time are stored separately. The destination is specified for the servers. The servers in the list can be temporary disabled but not deleted.
* The log (the events.log file) with all Atomic Clock events is kept.
Calendar:
* The "Stay on top" option was added.
... and a lot of minor changes and improvements.
Homepage and Download (http://www.alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/)
http://www.alfasoftweb.com/images/alfaclock_classic_large.png