Simon Heys
Word Clock
[ZIP] Download for Mac OS X (Currently incompatible with Snow Leopard)
[ZIP] Download for Windows
Download Flash 9 plugin (required for both versions above)
[ZIP] Download original Mac-native version
Word Clock for iPhone (Open Source port by Jeff Leung)
Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X and Windows. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes.
There are two display modes; Linear which is shown above and Rotary which has a nice relationship with traditional analogue clocks.
flickr group
Have a look at the Word Clock flickr group. If you’re using Word Clock we’d love to see a photo of it running on your screen. We’re also pretty nosey so try to include as much of your room as possible…
Languages
Word Clock currently includes 31 languages thanks to the very generous help of a lot of kind people. So far it has Arabic, Brazilian, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian. Help with localisation / translation (or let me know if there are problems with the current ones).
Typography
Fine typographic control is provided so you can change the typeface, leading, kerning and alignment. Position and resize the display however you like. Font size is determined automatically for the best fit.
Burn-in?
Please don’t use this if you’re using a plasma or CRT screen and are worried about burn-in. On a technical note if you use the Rotary Word Clock with the language set to ‘English, 12 hour’ then the clock will not have any stationery parts for more than 5 minutes. However I have no way of guaranteeing that won’t cause burn-in on CRT or plasma screens.
Thanks
Huge thanks to both Ole Zorn and Rasmus Andersson for kick-starting the project with their German and Swedish translations, suggestions, help and general encouragement. Jeff Leung has me all excited with his open-source iPhone version. Also to Jay for her suggestions, testing and cakes. And thanks to the numerous other kind people who have donated their time to contribute translations.
Technical
The original Word Clock was written in Mac OS X native Cocoa language using the beautiful and free Apple Xcode. The current version had to be cross-platform and is written in Flash ActionScript 3 for the screensaver and Flex for the configuration interface. This is published for Windows using the free and excellent Instant Storm and for Mac OS X some custom open-source Cocoa code.
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Simon Heys. All rights reserved. This work is registered with the UK Copyright Service: Registration Number 293224
Hi Simon,
Congratulations on such a wonderful idea. We are having a lot of fun using it.
Such a swish clock. Looks really good, and just wanted to say thanks.
bijou
Hi Simon, cant find your email address. I just wanted to thank you so much for doing that stuff on my laptop, I need never come into work again!!
Also if you have any trouble getting jay’s images please let me know.
Cheers,
Kuchar
My new favourite screensaver! Will post in on FFF later today. Well done :)
Lovely!
Excellent screensaver, very clever.
Regards
David
Amazing idea, well executed.
Hm, it’s wriiten that i can’t use the screensaver on this computer and that i should contact developer of this software for a newer version )
When the hour “one” is highlighted, it grabs the comma after December, Highlighting “, one”
…or is that comma always highlighted, separating the month form the hour?
Anyway, fantastic job. I’m using this screensaver as my new desktop.
Oh, and is there any way you could add a gradient background (to make it look more like the photo above)?
Also, the ability to set transparency on the colors would be helpful. I know opacity control shows up in OS X’s color picker, but only for certain applications…
Brilliant! lovely new screensaver!
Great work!
Fantastic screensaver! Congratulations.
Love it!
2 q’s… can you make it for a pc, and can you make a version for a wall? i would buy it =)
love it!
AWESOME!
I do love it … I wish you had a version for a PC (I know, horrible, but what can you do when that’s what work gives you.)
I, like Michelle, would buy a version for a wall too. That would be very cool.
this is great! thanks for sharing it!
Big thanks to everyone that’s emailed with offers of help for translation. I’m out of the country for a few days on a shoot so will get back to everyone next week. But keep them coming in the mean time…
Wonderful. I love the customizability. Cheers!
Now I have to use a screensaver! (Now for the PC version so I can use it at work…ick. I may be talking them into a mac, but until then!!)
Your word clock has created a shadow effect of the word clock on the desktop when the screensaver is not active.
wow man, that’s so cool. my compliments
So cool! Thanks for sharing it, I’ve already gotten a few compliments!
Love it; thanks for creating this!
Thanks all for translation help - I’ll hopefully get round to incorporating them all this coming weekend. I think the idea of having opacity on the text and allowing for a background image is great so will try to add that feature too.
Wow Simon.
This is fabulous.
I am a PC user, and now absolutely gutted!!
how does this help save my screen?
wOw! I Love it! Thanks fOr sharing this beautifuL CLOck :)
awesome idea, but i have to ask.. dont you think this will burn the screen?
donal - it doesn’t help save your screen. tom - screen burn was only an issue years ago when we all had CRT screens. Screensavers are just a vanity thing now and in general don’t perform any useful function.
or if your running a plasma like i am…
If you’re worried about burn-in, please don’t use it. I’ve added a burn-in section to the page as I think it’s a fair comment!
pc version? pretty please?
Yeah - what Alon said!
Is there a PC version in the pipeline??
Pretty pretty please?
Mmm no PC version in the pipeline at the mo. I have a Flash version of the clock that could be converted to a ScreenSaver if anyone wants to volunteer to convert it with something like ScreenTime? Doesn’t handle multiple languages though…
Bloody brilliant. thanks.
I am willing to give the Flash to ScreenSaver conversion a shot.
Bo - thanks for the offer of help. I’m going to work on the Flash one a little more so it can read all the translated xml files I have. Will be in touch when it’s done (few weeks probably!). Would like to release something good.
I’ll 4th the request for a PC version. This looks brilliant.
@ Bo. Woo hoo!
Sorry I couldn’t help Simon .. I’m one of those damn end users only!! ;p
Superb! A wonderful idea for us type-heads. Surely this is the only screensaver in the world that has adjustable typography controls?! This is gracing my desktop just as surely as my “your type makes me sick” (collapse-design) t-shirt adorns my bod.
:D
Love it, looks fantastic. Blogged; http://reformrevolution.com/
Our new favorite!
I would appreciate any form of this for Windows. I generally don’t use screensavers, but this is too good to pass up.
Thank you.
Definitely a really nice screensaver! I spotted a little bug in the french translation though : the word “dimanche” (sunday) is doubled…
it’s really tuff to wait for the Windows version!!!
wow, this is great! awesome idea! thanks for turkish version.
Love, love, love it! :)
Excellent! One of the finest screen savers ever. Maybe it’s my love of typography - anyway, I tumblelogged it…
I want this for Windows too!
sweet, thanks from germany!
Windows version would be very much appreciated!
props for the great idea!
So great, thanks. I used the gray on gray with black highlighting I saw in the flickr group. Fantastic.
sweet. thnks. im grabbng this ^_^
Great screensaver, I wonder if you have plan to put Indonesian language…
The best ‘minimalistic’ screensaver I’ve ever had.
Conjures a smile on my face. :-)
Big THANKS!
Yz
Cool clock.
Couple of minor niggles, the ‘,’ after the months is highlighted and this just looks wrong to me.
When doing right justified text the previous line jumps about when the highlighting switches from the first term to the second term
Cool saiver…
for Windows please? :)
Great idea. I really love it - especially the customizable typesetting and colors. Good work.
very, very cool and elegant!
Exzellent Screensaver. Thank you!
Beautiful screensaver!
One problem…it’s 1 hour in advance, even if my system clock is ok…
Best screensaver yet. would be a good idea if we could customise it so that we can only display the date e.g. and remove the time.
well done!
Brilliant, stylish and very original idea! The 18 languages means I can have it in French which is great. But (yeah I know: nitpicking and all that), could you add an option for a 24 hours format, or even better, guess it from the system’s locale like you guess the language. Sorry if it’s already been asked for but I didn’t see any mention for it in the previous comments…
Excellent all around.
How about an option in Languages for a randomly-chosen language each time it starts?
Sorry, it’s me again. I just noticed that there’s a small problem with the French version. You use the plural of the unit for the zero quantity like in English, while in French 0 and 1 are not using plural form. BTW this is even worse for (at least) Russian and Polish AFAIK. Check gettext doc, that’s where I learned about this. http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-forms.html
Very nice screen saver, using this one from now on! :)
Please, pour Windows, por favor, s’il vous plait, bévakasha,
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments and who has noticed all the errors in translation and the +1 hour bugs… I am slowly working on a number of new translations and should be able to post a corrected version over the weekend. This version also has a random option and you can also set a background image if you want (for gradients or whatever you like).
Very nice! A beautiful screensaver. One thing about the Swedish translation: the names of the months are not spelled with a versal in the beginning, i.e. “maj” not “Maj”. Otherwise, it’s perfect!
this is great. hebrew would be awesome!
cool ss, how about making it compatible with real computers?
Apologies if its been mentioned, I wondered about possibly avoiding the screen burn issue by occasionally shifting the clock by a pixel or two every so many seconds.
My plasma does this for TV, shifts by one pixel every 30 seconds I think it is - you don’t notice it unless you’re paying very close attention :)
Excellent screensaver, enjoying it!
Cheers
Richard
I’ll second the last comment. You could have it (slowly, or not so slowly) sliding all over the screen, given that the space it occupies is smaller than the real estate. Anyway thank you for this great idea!
COOL !!
coold idea with professional implementation
I’d Digg it.
Just wondering, does anybody know what software was used to create this? quartz composer? or something that uses flash?
thanks
Awesome screen saver! makes me want to not let my computer sleep just so i can see it!
Anyways, I have a request that’s a little different.
Is there any way other statistics could be integrated into the free space on the screensaver? Such as a stock ticker, netwrok usage, new mail, something along those lines? I know its different, and I know nothing about coding, but it would be very very cool. Either way, this is my new screensaver.
Thanks a lot.
I can’t seem to be able to change the typography from the default Helveltica Bold. Please help.
Beautifully done. Especially appealing to us typography folks. One corrections: your “kerning” slider is actually better stated as “tracking” or “letterspacing”. Kerning is the space between two specific pairs of letters, not the letterspacing as a whole.
Very nice! One suggestion, though I don’t know if it’s possible: could you include support for different configurations for Macs with multiple monitors? I.e. Different layout on each?
Thanks!!
great savr — thanks. Any chance of getting a 24-hr clock version? My system clock is set that way, so would love to see the savr show me: “twenty-two thirty-seven” instead of “ten thirty-seven pm” etc
~ Keith
everybody wants something for nothing don’t they.
love the screensaver.
one thing you should do though
in the layout field have it so you can add pics (from a folder or flicker) so you can have the tie on one side and a slide show on the other
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Congratulations…A Beautiful Job.
I left out a question. Is there any way it can be downloaded for use on the desktop instead as a screen saver? Thank you
great work! though the swedish version seems to select the wrong day of the week..
Beta version posted at top of page. Fixes most of the bugs I know about, adds some more languages and features. It’s a work-in-progress so maybe contains some new bugs too…
i’d like the highlighted words to be aligned along a vertical center axis, and then the grayed out words to cycle word by word, line by line. i would like to make this in qc myself, but haven’t got the time. is this qc? could you provide us with the qtz?
To answer my own question about putting it on the desktop…I found an application, Moving Desktop 0.3 - FREE DOWNLOAD, at softpedia.com, that allows you to do this.
nice. thanks! :)
Would you mind if I link this page on my blog? Love this Screensaver.
Word clock is Screensaver on my MAC, now.
So Unique~
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man. i feel like getting a macbook pro just for this screensaver. =)
keep it up! GOOD JOB!
Great!!!
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Absolutely wonderful gadget!
Can’t wait for the Windows version!!
Hurry, please!
Well done!
Joppe
I would love to see this ported to Linux. This clock looks absolutely gorgeous. Please let me know if there is anything i can do to help.
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Beautiful idea, beautiful implementation, congratulations Simon.
But (there is a but?) - some feature suggestions:
* Add a possibility to save/load the settings - especially the sliders are a bit tricky, if you are not satisfied with your choices, then it’s hard to get back to the orginal settings. Plus it would be cool to get the settings of some cool flickr picture of wordclock
* A free-floating, resizable preview would be a great help for subtle typographical adjustments. The built-in preview is overlapped by the configuration dialog and it is too small, anyway.
* Maybe add a “donate” button to your site for people who would like to show their appreciation.
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I’d love to see vertically oriented text and this would look great in Japanese.
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Thanks a lot bro!! you provide Indonesian language. Btw what is your Nationality?
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This is just brilliant - simple, beautiful, and useful at once. I’m just not sure which I prefer: on my PowerBook or my iPod touch!
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hey.. the screen server is perfect. but u have something to fix..!!
in the seconds… u add the second “0″ , and take off the second “60″
i think that is wrong.. !
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Thanx and greetings from India !
In fact it doesn’t exist the brazilian language, in Brasil they speak Portuguese but with some differences, so the best way to say it would be somenthing like “Portuguese (Brasil)”.
I don’t want be a smart ass saying this, but i thoough I should say…
And by the way, i love the world clock screen saver.
true simplicity & true brillance! but…
…where is the “Oh-five”…?
It’s missing!
Yes! The early PC version is missing some words, I admit it. I am working quite hard on a new Mac and PC version so watch this space…
Great! I forgot to mention that it was the PC version yeah…
Great work man!
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In this modern age, I never thought I’d use a screensaver again. But your word clock makes me reconsider that. It’s installed, let’s see for how long. Great work!
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Kudos on the design!!!
How about a rotary version with numbers rotating… Sort of a fixed digital read out but the non-applicable numbers rotating?
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Greate Idea , Thanks
Hi Adrian - a version with digits instead of words is easily possible. However the whole point of the clock is to use words rather than digits, and I can’t bring myself to do it!
thanks man,
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extremely well done screensaver! Love everything about it.
one thing that would be a nice addition i think would be a “”default” button for all the tabs. but im just nitpicking :)
btw, how did you get the background on the mac one to be a blue/black gradient?
Simon,
OK then… how about an option on the linear text for Star Wars fans?
Text would fly into and fade away to the background as the intro of the movies.
You could make every “chapter” of the text space each other between every minute and you would have 60 lines of text per chapter… just a thought.
Still love the rotary on my screen…
Many Thanks!
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very impressive! i was always looking for a cool sreen saver. really neat effort, this is awesome!
Excellent design. This is a typographical gem. Congrats!
I can offer you a Maltese translation if you’re interested. (Please get in contact using the URL I’ve provided in your “Website” field.)
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At last I can refresh my danish, swedisch, russian, galician, portuguese … numbercounting and date naming.
Great idea, thank you!
P.S.: Lovely Macbook
Word Clock Bildschirmschoner…
Dank dem Artikel “10 creative ways to display time” vom Smashing Magazine bin ich auf einen wirklich guten Bildschirmschoner gestoßen: Word Clock
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Thank you Simon! I love this so much!
My iMac at home is running the Japanese version with a green text colour, which looks beautiful. At work (ick), my PC (ick) is running your default Windows version since the customization doesn’t seem to be an option. Oh well.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Hi Andrea - glad you like it. There is customisation on the PC version (because it’s the exact same code as the Mac version). There should be a ’settings’ button on the Screen Saver control panel, right next to where you select Word Clock as your screensaver.
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Ahhh…my typographically inclined heart is so happy right now! Such brilliant work. :]
I’m running the PC version, and I kind of have to second Andrea’s comment–the typography and layout customizations don’t seem to be working. Any chance this could be fixed? Even if not, the clock is incredible as is. Thanks for your work!
Hi Ash - it works perfectly on my PC, so I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble. It may be that Flash doesn’t like particular fonts; try some others and see if that makes it happy?
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1 words ……
AWESOME DUDE
thanks…great idea.
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I love the word clock.
just found it by chance. i was actually just looking for a clock, but this is so much better.
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Thank you!!
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I love the new rotary look… any chance we’ll see the return of the option to set a background image?
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A wonderful new option with the rotary, but unless I’m mistaken ligatures are no longer supported in the new Flash-based version? That’s a shame.
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Great Work! Thank you very much for sharing it. Oh, so late … time to go now …
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Hi Simon,
Great work. Is it possible to get the old OS X only version? I believe that the Arabic display problem is related to flash - namely, that it doesn’t like to connect Arabic letters. My guess is that the old Cocoa version with the Arabic translation should work fine.
Hi Aaron
I am planning to re-post the old Mac native version just as soon as I can find the time…
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Thanks for making this! I do have one suggestion: could you make the type size changeable?
Thanks!
- From a designer who likes small type.
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Hi Emma - the idea is that you change the type size by changing the layout of the clock. It automatically determines the font size that fits in the area. So if you want small type, just make the area smaller…
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Thanks a lot for this! This will definitely help me to tell time in Korean.
I love Word Clock so much that I’m going to post an entry about it on my blog. I know that my readers will love it just as much as I do.
Thank you so much for making this available for download!
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Savory Typography-Designy Screensaver…
{Simon Heys’ World Clock Screensaver}
This screensaver is very customizable, from colors to font, down to controlling kerning.
……
Gotta love words! They work.
Thank you for making this available. Hope you don’t mind that I’ve passed it on to family. Will send it to friends L8R. Way cool!!!
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I LOVE this! but I can’t get round the permissions on my work machine to install it :o(
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I combined this with WallSaver, and now I have it running as my desktop wallpaper. sweet.
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Thanks for WordClock screensawer. I want use this screensaver as Turkish. But negative. Please help me. Regards.
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Hi Selcuk - you have to click ‘Turkish’ and then click on the sentence that appears on the right. Should work.
Having played with it, and seeing all the sweet color ideas on the Flickr group, I am suggesting a way to include color themes.
I know you can change the colors, but still not everyone can be that creative as some I saw on Flickr.
Still, is this is feasible and possible.
WordClock is great as it is!
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Just uploaded a new version. Added a couple of new languages, corrected some mistakes. I have also changed the way you choose a language as lots of people were finding the old way confusing.
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no “oh five” {minutes) appears when I install on my two Macs - anyone else notice that?
any fix?
Hi Mike - my mistake, I’m having some troubles with my version control server. try downloading again, should be okay now.
Wow - response in less than 24 hours! Thanks, Simon.
Unfortunately, what I re-downloaded (Download for Mac OS X Binary) still seems to be missing the “oh five” minutes.
Can you think of anything else I might be doing wrong?
Hi mike - working fine here. Did you try uninstalling the old saver first? If you’re still having trouble then please mail me.
Hey,
Are you planning to port this app to the 2.1 firmware for the ipod touch/iphone?
I installed this on my ipod, but it crashes on launch.
Hi Mustek. Completely new iPhone version is in the works, hoping to release it on the AppStore. Unfortunately time is limited so don’t expect to see it before next year…
Okay, thanks for the fast reply though.
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thank you for saving my day.
pure excellence.
HELL YEAH ROCK N ROLL!
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I love the screen saver. It is beautiful.
Could you add a “Random Font” feature?
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Hi,
first I have to say: Really nice work!
But, is there any way to change the background of the screensaver? :)
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Great idea, I love it !
Thank you !!!
This is fantastic. Thankyou
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The finnish version has some really bad typos regarding the seconds.
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Thanks for the Windows version.
However, seems I can’t save my customisations. I only have a close button, no OK or Save button. Whatever customisations I make are lost.
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Hi Toby - your changes should be saved automatically as you make them (well that’s the theory anyway). I’ll have to look into it…
nerf - if you can mail me with some corrections that would be great.
Quick question, which Hindi font is required to see it in Hindi.
Thanks for the wonderful clock.
Really nice art work - I enjoy it very much.
Hi Nair - the Hindi version shows up fine in most fonts on the Mac - as for PC, I’m really not sure. Perhaps someone else can help?
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Hey Simon:
This is an awesome idea, a co-worker uses it, but i’m trying to use it here at home, and for some reason, I get numerous scripting errors…i’m on Vista, is that an issue?
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Nice work Simon. Really beautiful!
I used the old version and found out this new version yesterday. I just loved the Rotary view!
Unfortunally, when I try to change any configuration, it makes the System Preferences crash. Do you have any idea? I’m using Flash Player 10 on Leopard.
Thanks.
Nice work Simon. Really beautiful!
I used the old version and found out this new version yesterday. I just loved the Rotary view!
Thanks.
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hey, it’s cool! but i still don’t know how to change the language. could u help me? thx!
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Hi there. Thanks for great design work on the clock. simple and cool… i wrote good stuff about it on http://www.barner.dk
Take care and make more design we can credit you on!
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why isn’t my download working on my MacBook. The file is showing up in my screensaver list but all it says is “the selected folder has no pictures….” Very frustrating. I’ve repeated the download numerous times to no avail. anyone have any suggestions????? Thanks.
I love this screensaver and so do most people that see it! It’s was great and now I love the rotating mode even more!
Three feature requests to make it even more awesome:
- Random languages (choosing the ones you want)
- Romanji version of the Japanese clock please :)
- Random themes (save what you like, maybe import from a marketplace)
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fit on my macbook..!!!
thanx, simon…!! ^^
Cooooollll
I’m looking for a linux (ubuntu) version :-)
Looks very cool. I downlaoded the Windows version, and whenever I try to change anything in the settings it gives an error: Access violation in Flash9d.ocx (with some pointers)
Anyone else having this? (How to fix? workaround?)
I get an “Access violation at address 3008AF85 in module ‘Flash9d.ocx’. Read of address 00000000.” in the Windows version under Vista with the latest flash installed. it works fine for the Rotary display, but trying to change any settings comes up with that. Shame, cos I wanted the Linear display more! :-(
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Hi - I don´t get any option for settings (font, color, and so on) on my macbook pro with osx - only one option: Language (English and some japanise..).. Why is this??
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Hey buddy thanks for this great graphical concept. I really liked this screensaver, so far my best ;-)
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Hola,el reloj funciona,pero no me “marca” los minutos,solo dice el dia,mes,y segundos,pero no los minutos.
Un ejemplo.
Viernes 6 de Marzo con dos dos con nueve segundos de la tarde,se arregla eso?gracias
I love this screensaver, and have been using it for a while. A suggestion, though: it would be great to be able to have user set format for the date and time, rather than just the four or so options you have for each language. I’m not a coder so I have no idea whether that would be easy or not, but it would be great, since my ideal way of seeing the time is not quite the options that are available. That being said, Word Clock is great!!
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This is awesome. Thank you and keep up the good work
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the screensaver is great
best in my opinion
but..
it doesn’t work with dual display
i’m using windows vista and it only apears on my primary display
any chance you could fix that?
thanks!
Great screensaver!
I just wanted to thank you for the excellent screensaver. I’m a typography nut, and this is perfect. I especially like the configurability… it lets me ‘design’ it for my own tastes.
Love your work. I run a dual screen setup at work (PC) and at home (Mac). It’d be great to have linear on one screen and rotary on the other. Not sure if this is an OS kind of restriction but it would be cool…
You could have a pulse between the two as the time updates…
A touch of genius. Congratulations !
Hey, this is great. but is it possible to have the setting from the old version to have an image as the back ground?
thanks :)
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This just came up on the Ruby Shoes list as a neat project to code and as a potentially valuable way to learn more efficient ways of coding.
I like it a lot and will start coding my version in Shoes right away!
Thanks for all the useful links too!
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great flash work, this version in horizontal text i like better.
Please explain how to download the Rotary Word Clock version. I’ve read everything on this page but I can’t find a way to do it. Thanks.
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Love it!!
Now I know where to come if I have some wild idea :)
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Hey Simon the screensaver doesn’t save.everytime I close the properites box the screensaver changes to (None). Please help me
You guys out did yourselves on this. the novelty, simple aesthetic, and options are flippin fantastic
I love it, Im using it with wallspace right now. but I do have an idea… I’d like to see a version that instead of having the individual “sections” on the rotary clock float, it would be a set space to be in. So instead of just sizing the wheel in layout, you could size each “section” Just my 2¢
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i saw many flash clocks on the internet websites and blogs, plus i also created many cool flash clocks too, but i never saw such an idea in a flash clock or a real watch like your world flash clock.
Great work i admit, but i will try to do a flash clock like your word clock, i bet it is going to fill all my free time for sure.
Thanks for sharing, great work!
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I’ve tried to install this on a new iMac with OSX 10.5.7 and it does not seem to recognise Wordclock when I try to select in desktop screensaver prefs. Is this correct, or am I doing something wrong? On OSX 10.4.11 it was fine and wonderful in English and Japanese!
Geoff
Well I just downloaded it and installed it. Upon launching it to check it out, it crashed instantly. Looks like it might not like the hardware I’m running?
Early 2009 iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, ATI Radeon HD 4850, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM, running on Leopard 10.5.7.
Using the latest Flash version (10.0.22.87)
To add to my comment I downloaded the non_universal Binary version and it does run… Curious, I guess it runs fine in Rosetta?
I could send you the crash report of the Universal Binary version that I sent to Apple if it would help you…
Just drop me an email if you want.
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Word Clock doesn’t work with Mac OS X 10.6. Are you going to provide a compatible version?
Word Clock is my favorite screensaver, I really appreciate your work.
I would like you to know that it doesn’t work on Snow Leopard.
Thank your for your excellent work!
I’m a PC user and I use Firefox. When I downloaded this screensaver I was told to update my flash. When I did so the screensaver didn’t work and I couldn’t pull up the settings for it. So, just to test, I downloaded the flash update for Internet Explorer and tadah! the screensaver and settings work. I’m not sure if this is an issue that anyone has notified you of yet, or if it is even anything you can or might want to fix. Just thought I’d let you know.
Thanks all for letting me know that it doesn’t work with Snow Leopard. Unfortunately I don’t have Snow Leopard so I’m not in a position to fix it. Perhaps I’ll be able to fix it later in the year.
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