Friday, February 1, 2008

XNote Stopwatch

Here's one for the time-conscious.

It's a small and useful tool that does what it's meant to do. It works as an alarm clock, stop watch, and countdown timer. It's called XNote Stopwatch and it's impressively light and fast. You can have it for free -- just bear with the nag screen.

Publisher's description

From dnSoft Research Group:

XNote Stopwatch is a multifunctional digital-stopwatch and countdown timer utility for your computer's desktop. The program features both count-up and count-down modes, an alarm with various events, a resizable display with always-on-top mode, system-wide hot keys, time snapping (split/lap time feature), save/load support, time rewinding, and decimals customization. XNote Stopwatch has a digital display similar to real stopwatches and clocks. Moreover, it can be resized to achieve your preferable size of digits and even be switched to a compact state, in which the stopwatch/timer doesn't show controls and stays on top of your desktop.
My notes:
  • The publisher does not mention XNote being an alarm clock. Well, you can actually make it one. Xnote has a feature that enables audio playing or the launching of applications after a countdown. Just configure the feature to set your alarm.
  • Set hotkeys to easily control XNote.
  • Eeasily resize XNote (compact mode) and place it anywhere on your screen.
  • You can simultaneously run several XNote timers or stopwatches on your screen.
  • Change digit and background colors to your liking. You can also adjust XNote's transparency.
Display:

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Stopwatch Window

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Compact Mode

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