Alexey Zakhlestins blog » milkfarmsoft http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com Programming for Mac and Web Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Chronograph 1.4.0 http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2010/10/chronograph-1-4-0/ http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2010/10/chronograph-1-4-0/#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:22:26 +0000 indeyets http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/?p=166 . . . → Read More: Chronograph 1.4.0]]> Today, I am introducing Chronograph 1.4, latest version of our Time Tracking application for Mac OS X.

We consider it a minor release, yet, it adds some nice additions to the feature set.

1. Idleness Detection

Did you ever find yourself in situation, when you start time-tracking for the task, walk away from the computer and just forget about it. Then, you find all this time tracked. Sure, you can edit time post factum, but still there’s a need to figure out how much time you actually spent working.

Here’s the solution:

  • Open Preferences… and set “Minutes of idle time allowed” (point 1) to some value larger than zero.
  • Whenever you run track time and computer is idle for this amount of minutes a new dialog will jump out (point 2), which will allow you to record only the time before idleness started. Additional notifications will be shown in menubar (point 3) and dock (point 4)

Setting it back to 0 will disable idleness detection.

2. New Report Modes

Chronograph 1.3 report facilities allow you to see how much time did you spend daily on Task or Project during requested period.

Chronograph 1.4 goes further and introduces 3 new kinds of reports

A. Detailed report for Task/Project

shows all sessions of tracked time during requested period

B. Grouped report for Project

shows how much time you spent daily during requested period grouped by Task

C. Grouped Detailed report for Project

shows all sessions of tracked time during requested period grouped by Task

3. Time in menubar area

There’s a new pull down menu in Preferences called “Show time in menu bar” (point 6). Default is “none“, which means that only icon is shown in menubar, but you can also chose tho show Session time, total Task time and total Project time. Example is shown on (point 5)

4. Reworked timer sheet

We’re not longer showing spinning circle in timer sheet. Instead, we show you current Session time and either total Task time or total Project time. To switch between task/project time just click on time shown.

You can get this version here: Chronograph 1.4.0.dmg

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Just wanted to let you know, that our time-tracking app Chronograph is available for $12.95 from MacZOT today. That’s 50% of our usual price. Please note, that it is a time-limited offer: you can buy Chronograph at this price only on June 30, 2009. Additionally, MacZOT will be giving several free licenses to their . . . → Read More: Chronograph at MacZOT. $12.95 only!]]> Chronograph

Just wanted to let you know, that our time-tracking app Chronograph is available for $12.95 from MacZOT today. That’s 50% of our usual price. Please note, that it is a time-limited offer: you can buy Chronograph at this price only on June 30, 2009. Additionally, MacZOT will be giving several free licenses to their subscribers — take your chance.

By the way, we recently released Chronograph 1.3 which has one of the most requested features: iCal integration. Just click one button in preferences and watch how all your tracked time-data appears in iCal-calendar. Add a simple AppleScript and you can integrate Chronograph data into your workflow. With each release Chronograph becomes more mature, but, still, is an extremely easy to use piece of software.

If you were waiting for some special occasion to buy Chronograph license — this is exactly such occasion. Don’t miss it. It is HERE.

relevant links:

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Today, I am glad to announce the release of my new product: Chronograph. Chronograph is one of those tools, that I wrote for myself, because everything else out there felt like nonsense. Either too complicated, or too ugly. Anyway, Chronograph . . . → Read More: Chronograph]]> It’s been a while since I posted anything here. Life was keeping me busy :)

Today, I am glad to announce the release of my new product: Chronograph. Chronograph is one of those tools, that I wrote for myself, because everything else out there felt like nonsense. Either too complicated, or too ugly. Anyway, Chronograph — is a time tracking application. Basically, there are Projects, which consist of Tasks. You can select task and start the timer. Then you do the job, stop the timer and move on to the next task. Chronograph keeps stats on the time spent and you can create reports (basic, for now) based on them.

I am trying to make application, which would feel “right”, and looks like the direction is correct.

Chronograph screenshot

If you have any comments, ideas regarding Chronograph let me know in comments, or using email: info@milkfarmsoft.com

Thanks :)

]]> http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2008/11/chronograph/feed/ 1 move to the new server http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2007/11/move-to-the-new-server/ http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2007/11/move-to-the-new-server/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:47:58 +0000 indeyets http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/?p=75 Ok, the transition is over and DNS is propagated. Both web-site and blog are on a new server now.

I guess I can put a badge “Powered by OpenSolaris” somewhere around

]]> Ok, the transition is over and DNS is propagated. Both web-site and blog are on a new server now.

I guess I can put a badge “Powered by OpenSolaris” somewhere around ;)

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