Desktop Tray Clock

Replace your standard tray clock using different skins.

http://www.desktoptrayclock.com/
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Desktop Tray Clock - designed as a more informative substitution for a standard tray clock on windows desktop using different skins, over 100 skins are included in the distribution for desktop clock.

Desktop Tray Clock also an atomic-time synchronizer and a software alarm clock, need a reminder to make a call, go to a meeting or just not to miss a TV program? Is a powerful customizable reminder, which can alarm you at a specific moment of time or run periodically (minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or annually).

Time can be displayed for any time zone, which is especially convenient for people doing business with partners in other countries.

Desktop Tray Clock (Home page)


Main Clock Benefits at a Glance
 Get notified at a preset time with a popup message, sound;
Start an application, open a document, play a movie, shutdown a PC at a preset time;
An easy-to-use calendar;
Configuration settings backup;
Time synchronization with Atomic Clock Servers;
100 beautiful skins to please your eye;
Support for Longhorn clock style.

With their help you can make the PC clock the ultimate expression of your style.
Excellent desktop clock!   






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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nice concept but the download page neglects to tell you your downloading only a 30 day trial and the clock is $24.95 after that.
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I knew their other clock had a price tag, thought this one was free. I'll have to check into that.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I could almost see paying $25 for Atomic Alarm Clock... almost. It needs some more features. If the developer would like a detailed list let me know.

As far as Desktop Tray Clock goes, it would probably become pretty popular if it were free. Then the people who wanted more functionality in addition to the looks might purchase AAC. AAC is still over priced at $29.95 though.

Like I said, I have the suggestions that would greatly improve AAC. Let me know if you want to hear them.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
dragonmage:

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thank you for the help.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok I'm going to try pasting this in. This is just a rough start of the list. I'm sure I'll add to it later.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Atomic Alarm Clock Feature Suggestions

Before I begin, I have to recommend that you study Chameleon Clock. I think you already have since your clock is very similar. However CC has some great features that AAC does not have.

ALARMS

1. The ability to add multiple actions to a single alarm. (CC has a box in the dialog that you can drag and drop multiple programs, files, or urls into.)

2. Birthdays handled seperately from other alarms. (Again a CC feature)

3. Ability to set alarms for events that occur on a specific day (not date). Examples: The third Tuesday of each month; The first Sunday of May

4. A different system for selecting alarm icons, that allows the user to select any icon on their computer. Also a simple method for adding icons to the in program list, so that you don't have to keep browsing for an icon that you are going to use regularly.

5. Ability to choose a style for each alarm window. (Check out CC's "Style" tab in the alarm edit dialog) {I will expand on this idea in the SKINNING section below}



SKINNING

1. The ability to choose to not use a skin on the tray clock. Instead you could use any font on your computer. You could choose a seperate font for NUMBERS and TEXT, and also a seperate size and color for each. (You should also be able to save these settings to a list)

2. Alarm Window Style: Your blue alarm window is fine for people who use the standard Windows XP UI. Those of us who customize our Windows, however, often have a theme we are trying to stick to. That alarm window kinda clashes. Chameleon Clock has several options for alarm window style. The one I generally use is "Windows" which allows WindowBlinds to skin the alarm window, or of course it would be a standard XP window if you don't use WB. I think you should take this a step further and actually make the alarm window skinnable. We could then have user-created alarm window skins. It would be nice to have the "Windows" option also.

3. You have a skinnable calendar already, which is a step up over CC. Only thing is the calendar is pretty useless . {I have a REALLY GREAT idea for the calendar, I'll cover in it's own section below.}



GENERAL

1. The ability to choose the position and format of the day/date items.

2. The ability to display multiple timezones in a tooltip, instead of in the tray. You just hover over the clock and a tooltip pops up showing your selected timezones including your custom names for them.

3. Have the clock be aware if you are running in fullscreen (Like playing games) and to play alarm sounds but not display the alarm window or run the actions. You see the alarm window will kick you out to the desktop if you are in a game. That is most definitely uncool.



CALENDAR

Your current calendar only shows you the current date, which you can see in the tray. Now I'm going to give you an idea ,which will save you a lot of time coding. If you don't like that idea the harder option will follow.

1. There is an excellent open source skinnable calendar app called Rainlendar that supports plugins. Rainlendar already has an established and loyal userbase. Now if you write a plugin for Rainlendar that can read your alarm list, then you'll have a calendar that shows what days you have alarms set for, and will show the alarm text when you hover over the day. Plus Rainlendar already has a ton of skins on the various skin sites, and you will gain a new pool of potential customers. There are a lot of other things to consider with this idea but we can get into that later if you are interested in this idea.

2. The other option is to code your own calendar to have the functionality of Rainlendar.