Activity Timer keeps track of the time you spend at the computer on projects or activities. It keeps track of all the times when you use the mouse or keyboard. You can also set it to automatically change project when you use particular windows.
You can also play or shows screen alarms as a reminder to stop work after a preset period of time.
You can also set it to play or show reminders to look away from the screen for a few seconds from time to time as advised by eye doctors - this can mitigate that tiredness of the eyes that can result from long periods of staring at a computer monitor.
When minimized you can see the time so far by hovering the mouse over its icon. You can also change the project or set it to working or not working with a quick right click on the icon. Also can be set so that the projects list shows whenever you move the mouse into the top left or bottom right corners of the screen
You can set it to flash its icon, flash the border of the screen, show a splash screen, or play any tune or CD track when your desired time for the session is over. The tray icon can show the session time as a pie chart.
You can also run a screen saver as the end of session or eye protection reminder.
You can choose when you want each day to roll over to the next - preset to 6 a.m. which is suitable for most. Year 2038 compliant.
You can show a summary report of all the time spent on every project, and make a combined database showing the total time spent on all the projects for each day worked.
You can set it to start whenever you start the computer.
Easy to add a new project - just enter its name into the box and press the New Project button and it is done.
Free with splash screen - bar charts disabled and some of the special features. Low price if you pay for the extra features.
Straight forward layout. Extremely easy to use
You can also edit text for its windows and menus, for instance to translate into your own language.
Make many beautiful relaxing animations based on Spirograph and Lissajous patterns, taken into 3D. You can use any pictures as textures to wrap over the patterns - then as the curves animate, your pictures can twist and turn like reflections in a hall of mirrors! You can run its screen saver to enjoy the patterns - with music - or export them as images, movies or 3D animations in the obj format recognised by many 3d programs.
Create beautiful music effortlessly - and discover your talent as a budding composer! Choose one of the tunes that come with the program or choose or play a short musical phrase of a few notes, and hear it transformed into an intricate tracery of music. The music is fractal which means it is highly structured on many layers - but natural sounding too, like bird song, or the sound of the wind.
Any tuning is possible; no need to restrict your creativity to the equal tempered twelve tone system or even tunings that repeat at an octave. Try authentic historical temperaments with tunings for keyboards from Bach or Mozart's time. Try tunings for Indonesian Gamelans, or Indian music with drones. Try modern exotic tunings such as non octave scales, or musical geometries with highly symmetrical floating chord patterns.
Explore the effects of instrumentation, in an envionment where melody making is effortless. Suitable for complete newbies to composing - there is no need to be able to read music notation. Just choose one of the fractal tunes, vary the instruments, and vary the parameters to make your own new tunes.
Play directly in any of the tunings yourself with a music keyboard. Retune your own compositions to any tuning. Play melodies and chords on the PC keyboard - with the space bar as a sustain pedal, and the mouse scroll wheel as a modulation wheel :-). Play legato style (if your synth supports it) in microtonal tunings in the same way you do in twelve equal.
Play rhythms, long bars, and polyrhythms. Enter any chord progression as text and play it in any tuning. Make fibonacci rhythms which are highly structured, but never repeat exactly. A mouse theremin which can also play sliding chords. Send tunes to your friends as musical e-cards.
Built in wave shape player to play mathematically exact waves. CSound support. Much more.
The program comes with extensive help, an on-line wiki, tutorials, FAQ, example midi clips and tunes, etc.
Create flowers and geometrical patterns in 3D. Watch them grow or unfold. A swirling pattern of stars suddenly coalesces into a geodesic sphere with the points gracefully touching. Navigate a forest of rustling leaves, or visit an island with exotic flowers. Save as VRML, animated gifs, flash animated jpegs, flash movies, or animation frames. The VRML files are particularly tiny, and can be viewed using a VRML browser plug in such as Cortona.
