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InerziaUptime



This was our first experiment for the Dashboard of MacOS X; it is a simple widget doing just one thing: it shows the uptime, that is the time period from the last boot, together with the date and time of that last boot. Now that MacOS is unix based, it is normal not to turn off our Mac, but simply put it to stop; this widget monitors how long your Mac is on.
As far as we know, this is the only one uptime widget showing also the seconds (the terminal unix command doesn't show them!).
On the back, you can choose how many seconds to refresh the display; this can be set from 1 to 60 seconds and it is saved among different launches of the widget. As suggested by Apple in their guidelines, the widget stops the count when the user exit the Dashboard, so there is no CPU load.


Screenshots


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InerziaUptime: front and back.

License


InerziaUptime is free, you can use it as you want and you are encouraged to distribute it (provided that you do it with all the release notes).
Anyway, the development took us many hours: if you think it is a good software and you find yourself using it very often, you could consider to contribute to the development with a small donation (PayPal link). This will help us to improve the software with new features!
If you decide to do this good action... please, don't send less than 2 euros, otherwise the transaction fee eats a great part of the donation!


Warning


This software is supplied as is, without any warranty expressed or implied. We are not responsible that this software behaves well under all conditions. We have tested it deeply but it must be clear that by downloading it, you will keep the risk of using on your computer. If you don't intend to accept this risk, please don't download.

History



ver. 1.2 (2008-04-15)
Fixed a bug when used in Leopard; it should work from Mac OS X.4.3 and later
Changes in the screen code, necessary for Leopard.
Some optimization

ver. 1.1 (2006-10-26)
Code optimization
Introduction of colored interfaces (skins)

ver. 1.0 (2006-04-21)
First public release