FREEWARE! wot I've never seen before

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:53:51 -0400, Paul wrote:
Now, I sit with hands folded, waiting for someone to write
WhereDidILeaveMySlippers.exe . And OKHowAboutWhereAreMyCarKeys.exe.

:-)

For a while, Lifehacker was pushing Tile very hard. If I remember
rightly, it's a phone app that connects to the piece of hardware that
you attach to your key chain, but I see no reason why you couldn't
attach it to either or both slippers.

https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/about-tile

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On 22/06/2019 17.01, Mayayana wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

....

| One person is excited to know when their computer
| has booted. Another says he can do that more easily
| with task scheduler! How about something *useful*,
| like software to tell me whether I've put my shoes on?
| Another great one might be IsItDaytime?
|
| Just because one person thinks something is trivial, another might find
| it useful. [Miners and others might find IsItDaytime useful; and have
| you never gone out in your slippers by mistake (-:?]

No. I'm not that old yet. And yes, miners might like to
know what time it is. But not when they're looking at
the sky. Someone sitting in front of their computer
needs to know when it's booted? I think maybe they
need to know it's time to reinstall because their computer
is taking waaaaay too long to boot.

Maybe because there is nobody sitting there all the time, and we want to
know when it booted last, automatically on its own after some automatic
updates. Maybe to find out it booted three times.

I have a log that says every boot and halt and hibernation since I
bought it. I could log power failures. Just because I can. It helps with
what I do with it.


| Though having said that, startupbar never seems to have got past 1.0
| which came out in 2014, so may not be much good. (Or may be perfect the
| first time! But the site seems somewhat weird.)

And the program requires Java! There's also another
program using TTS to speak webpages.

This reminds me
of the early days of the PC craze, when people would
download all kinds of software just to see what was
out there. I used to write a tweak program. One customer
proudly sent me a screenshot of his start menu, to show
no less than 6 startup manager programs. People used to
think that kind of thing was clever.

My first program was actually a wallpaper changer. You
browse for a picture and the program sets it as desktop
background. That was actually a pretty advanced operation
back then. I had stiff competition in the wallpaper changer
category. But my program was unique: The entire window
background was a picture of a Christmas cactus, which was
one of a half dozen backgorunds provided. Not gray.
Not off-cream. No Aero techno-kitsch blades of grass around
the edge. The whole thing, except the buttons, was a photo
of a houseplant. Now *that's* useful software.

I think I did with Windows 3.11, and then the API changed and it stopped
working. It was a hidden function then.


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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.

On 22/06/2019 15.14, Mayayana wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| But if someone has written a utility (I haven't looked at it) that means
| I don't have to mess about with event codes (which I'd have to learn
| about) and task scheduler (which I find far too complex), then I'm not
| going to object.
|

Is this April Fools? Is there anyone you don't block?
One person is excited to know when their computer
has booted.

It is not when it has booted, but when it has finished booting, and thus
the full CPU power is available for real tasks. A curiosity, maybe.

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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.