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Jul 15 2004

TIM MORGAN  I believe the aliased look is due to an incorrect destination rect size -- the bottom and right edges seem to be clipped. I'll work on it when I get back home. As for the binary clock suggestion -- I'll give that a shot too. Will take longer, though. =]  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Jun 25 2006

ERIC22  Hi, Love your screen saver. Any chance it will be recompiled for the intel based Macs?  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Jul 15 2004
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SCHMELDING  First off: This is awesome. It's got some awe, let me tell you. The only negative is the edges look aliased. Maybe PNGs would resize better than TIFs? I dunno.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Jul 15 2004

ANONYMOUS  Now if only it provided a true binary time instead of just the ThinkGeek BCD variant.

(that is, where ThinkGeek's 10:31 is:

*--- (1 * 10 hours)

---- (0 hours)

**-- (3 * 10 minutes)

*--- (1 minute)

You'd have:

-*-*-- (10 hours)

*****- (31 minutes)  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Mar 11 2004
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PATRICK  FANTASTIC ! I've been looking for clock screensavers for ages that I wanted to be different ! ThinkGeek is just perfect....and not that "geek" if you learn how to read the time.

It comes in First place, just before "Ballzs" which is easier to read for those who cannot count. Anyway, CONGRATS' to the developer : your screensaver is A MUST !!!  
(Version 1.2)

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Nov 28 2003

TOM  it would be nice if bi-colour leds were used to aid reading at night  
(Version 1.2)

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Nov 24 2003

ANONYMOUS  Nice little program. I love it.  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 9 2003
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KURT HANSON  Excellent. It will replace Flurry, which is the best Mac screensaver, and ThinkGeek LED Clock is right up there in 2nd place. Thanks.  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 8 2003

TIM MORGAN  Note to those who have been experiencing freezes: Most likely this bug is caused because you have an old preferences file from 1.0 or 1.1 lying around in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Your System Preferences program throws the ThinkGeek Clock preferences somewhere in that folder; your best bet on locating it is to do a search for, say, "LED" within that folder. Simply delete the preference file and reconfigure the screensaver.

Sorry for the inconvenience; I'll be careful about that bug in the future.  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 8 2003

PETER DA SILVA  The Think Geek LED clock is probably not the best model for this. The original LED binary clocks had one column or row for each time unit. The big advantage is that 0-59 is only 1/16th less than 0-63, so it's easier to read at a glance because the top two bits of the column are close to 1/2 or 1/4.

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Here's a classic Mac version without the LED effect: http://homepage.mac.com/torgo/Mac%20Stuff/Pages/Binary%20Clock.html

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Here's a Java one with a nifty layout: http://www-pr.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~wiese/bclock/bclock.html

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This one's in German, there's a few versions: http://www.elbesoft.de/digiuhr/  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 8 2003
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DAVID  Very cool. Nice work! :)  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 8 2003

ROTTWEILER  NIce overall little screensaver - the new version however freezes when attempting to configure!?

Otherwise Geeky enough!  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 5 2003

SILENTI IECHOS  This thing is great. This will keep my friends confused for hours.   
(Version 1.0)

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