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Wallpaper Clock 1.1

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Refreshes your desktop every minute, keeps your time and date precise. Free

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Vladstudio

Wallpaper Clock is a tiny program that refreshes your desktop every minute to keep your time and date precise as well as stylish in many artistic ways.

Wallpaper Clock uses special type of images: WCZ files. Visit www.vladstudio.com/wallpaperclock and download many unique wallpapers in WCZ format, including Christmas-themed clocks!

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Version 1.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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gr8 reviewed on 09 Dec 2011

i found a solution how 'wallpaper clock' will work on multiple desktops on the mac.... :)

i work with 4 spaces (desktops).

therefore i made a copy of the program 'wallpaper clock' and renamed it to 'wallpaper clock 1'... i made one progam for each desktop.

afterward i started all the programs, so i have 4 'wallpaper clock' icons in my menu bar. now on the first screen i choose the clock i'd like. then i changed to the second screen and coos the second wallpaper clock icon to choose a clock. and the same for the other two desktops.

this gives you the same clock on all the desktops, i was not able to have a different one for each desktop. anyway, it still looks great!

hope this helps.....

[Version 1.1]

creatyves commented on 27 Nov 2007

Very neat, and works great. I'd love to put it on my 2nd screen tho. Is this feature gonna be implemented soon? thx

[Version 1.0]

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Alex B commented on 20 Nov 2007

People complain too much. I can;t believe this is free, it's an awesome implementation and apps like this are usually resource "hungry".

[Version 1.0]

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Roy-Van-Der-Woning replied on 21 Nov 2007

No complaints, just an observation.

FWIW: I think this app is pretty cool. I already disabled the standard menu bar clock in favor of it.

+73

Doc-Renaud commented on 20 Nov 2007

Would be nice to have an option for choosing first or second monitor.

[Version 1.0]

+65

Roy-Van-Der-Woning commented on 20 Nov 2007

"doesn't use up any resources"?

On my MacBook, it consumes over 27MB of real, and nigh onto 1 GB of virtual memory. I'd like to know what hardware CYPHER is using, because I want it!

[Version 1.0]

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gazman replied on 20 Nov 2007

27 MB of real memory is nothing. A more relevant question would be how much CPU it is using while running.

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Roy-Van-Der-Woning replied on 20 Nov 2007

Funny how you claim 27MB to be nothing and then worry about CPU usage for an app that changes your wallpaper once a minute.

xypher replied on 22 Nov 2007

What I meant was I didn't notice any system slow down or drag even though I am running 10.4.11 on an eMac with a measly 384Mb Ram.

+32

francola commented on 20 Nov 2007

Whoaa! Lovin' this!!!

Thanks

[Version 1.0]

mark.anderson reviewed on 20 Nov 2007

Brilliant, flipping brilliant!

[Version 1.0]

xypher reviewed on 20 Nov 2007

Ace, doesn't use up any resources too. Thanks for this. BTW, how do you make your own clock wallpapers?

[Version 1.0]

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meatheredotcom commented on 24 Nov 2007

I don't think I'm revealing any great secret here, as just looking at the first few bytes of the file gives away the file type. Anyway, making clocks of your own looks relatively easy, though may take a lot of time. The .wcz file format is just a renamed .zip file (wcz=WallpaperClockZip?). Change the extension of a clock you like and unzip. You'll see a long list of mostly .png files, labeled by function (e.g. moonphase1,moonphase2, etc.), each with a small graphic in the correct location to build the overall background image. Make your own version of each graphic, edit the .ini file (also in the unzipped folder above), zip them up, and rename. You should be good to go.