DateInTray
Rating: 4.5
Version tested: 1.5
DateInTray installs a small icon in the system tray that displays the day of the month; also displays a quick popup calendar when clicked.
Let’s have a quick show of hands: how many times a day do you place your mouse pointer over the time display in the lower right hand corner in order to get a quick reminder of today’s date?
I know I’m constantly doing this, and if this describes you you might be interested in DateInTray, a program whose main function is simply to place an icon in the system tray that displays the current day of the month. The day is displayed as a single number (so just ’12’ rather than Oct 12). It also can 2 two other little functions as well:
- Double click on the day icon to prompt a display a quick monthly calendar. The nice thing about this is that it remains open until you choose to close it manually.
- Right click and select ’paste date to clipboard’ to copy today’s date to the clipboard.
A free, small app (about 900K in memory) that performs a simple yet potentially useful function. Recommended.
Compatibility: WinAll.
Go to the download page to get the latest version (approx 112K); also visit the program page.
You might look into TClock: http://www.zdnet.de/downloads/prg/c/k/de0ECK-wc.html
You know, I’ve been using this tool for a month or two now and it’s probably my favorite little utility. I was always playing with the date on my computer to figure out plans (where is ‘cal’ when you need it?), but this makes life MUCH EASIER.
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Dustin Puryear
Author, “Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers”
http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
I’ve been using TClock for years. The only downside is it won’t properly restart itself when Explorer decides to crash and restart. It’s got a setting to restart but doesn’t work properly win Windows XP.
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Other clock that shows highly configurable date & calendar when clickes is AlfaClock Free Edition http://alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/
There is a free and payable edition. I’ve been using 1.90 for few months now and now I’m trying out the new (new to me) free version. Thanks to it I have the date always visible and nice calendar under a mouseclick.
Alphaclock looks very nice but it has a timer and won’t work after May, 2008. Why do people do stupid things like that? The free version of PDF-ShellTools requires an update every month but the authors don’t post updates. No thank you.
This almost seems like a waste of resources as if you increase the size of your task bar one size up ( sorry hard to explain). it will display time, day below it, and date below that and take no more resources (not that this program does) than the stock size of task bar.
I agree with Adam, I don’t think 900k of memory is “small” for this type of utility.
I like LClock: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=157465 It uses very little memory to run.
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“I’ve been using TClock for years. The only downside is it won’t properly restart itself when Explorer decides to crash and restart. It’s got a setting to restart but doesn’t work properly win Windows XP.”
Mebbe it’s different on XP, but on W2K, I simply restart tclock2.exe using Sysinternals Process Explorer. Or is there a difference between TClock and TClock2?