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[ZIP] Download for Mac OS X (Currently incompatible with Snow Leopard)
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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
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