This is the ultimate geek thing, an animated binary clock in your system tray, configurable to show hours, minutes and seconds. It's quite wide, it takes up 3 icons in your tray, but the ultimate
... [More] geekness is worth the valuable screen space. Look at the screenshot for an explanation of how to read the display, of course the real geeks among us won't need it :) [Less]
The ZOClock (Zero-One Clock) program emulates two-line LED display to show the time in binary form. Many aspects of ZOClock may be tune to good fit your desktop environment.
ViewMain window is tiny
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You can customize colors.
ZOClock can display popup tip window (on mouse over). You can set up colors, font, kind and format of information.
Some examples:
Time in AM/PM form:
Bigger font, time in 24-hours form and UNIX time:
The same as above in hex:
You can customize colors:
How to read (example)
Features (menu overview)You can
customize colors, customize format of time, enable/disable and tune tip window, enable always-on-top mode, stick the window (make it unmoveable) and save settings.
How to installZOClock built using Qt. So you can run it on all major platforms.
To compile you need for
C++ compiler, make utility and Qt library (with developers files). Now you may run two commands to compile:
qmake and make Test it:
./zoclock And install:
sudo make install or just copy zoclock somewhere NOTE: Names of this commands depends of you system, it may be qmake-qt4, nmake, mingw32-make and other.
News10 Nov 2009. ZOClock on brothersoft. Thanks the editors for their attention to the project. 23 Aug 2009. ZOClock on softpedia. Thanks the editors for their attention to the project. 15 Jul 2009. ZOClock 1.2.0 has been appended to AUR (ArchLinux User-community Repository). Thanks to pktfagr and all AUR-voters. 12 Jul 2009. Release 1.2.0. ChangesVersion 1.2.0Fix misprints Tooltip initially looks natively Add date on tooltip (configurable) Version 1.1.0Add hours-modes (1-12, 1-12+am/pm, 0-23) Add tooltip (Thanks to Dmitry Shulgachik for ideas, tests, patches and discassions) Add menu items to setup tooltip window Refactor code, make it better for reading and understand Add not empty install target to zoclock.pro/Makefile Version 1.0.1Add "always on top" control Minor and cosmetic fixes Do you know?Style of the application can be specified, using the -style command-line option. Try command zoclock -style plastique. Try -style motif, cde, windows, cleanlook... The complete list of available styles depends on you Qt installation. Some settings can be edit in file zoclock.h. Some X11 window managers are ignore "always on top" property of window. See the documentation on your WM. [Less]
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .
This program reads your computer's clock and translates it into a binary readout.This program was written using Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. Therefore, you will need the .NET Framework 3.5 libraries to run it.Author: Tyler Pentecost (Morl8806) [Less]