InerziaUptime
Our first Dashboard widget; it is a simple one doing just one thing: it shows the uptime,
that is the time period from the last boot, together with the date and time of that last boot.
Now that MacOS is unix based, it is normal not to turn off our Mac, but simply put it to stop; this widget
monitors how long your Mac is on.
As far as we know, this is the only one uptime widget showing also the seconds (the terminal
unix command doesn't show them!).
On the back, you can choose how many seconds to refresh the display; this can be set from 1
to 60 seconds and it is saved among different launches of the widget. As suggested by Apple
in their guidelines, the widget stops the count when the user exit the Dashboard, so there
is no CPU load. From version 2 on, it also saves the longest uptime period and shows it
on its back. Obviously, this recording is not updated if the widget is closed.
Screenshots
InerziaUptime: front and back.
License
InerziaUptime is free, you can use it as you want and you are encouraged to distribute
it (provided that you do it with all the release notes and that you don't charge anything for it).
Anyway, the development took us many hours: if you think it is a good software and you find yourself using it
very often, you could consider to contribute to the development with a small donation (PayPal link).
This will help us to improve the software with new features!
If you decide to do this good action... please, don't send less than 2 euros, otherwise the transaction fee
eats a great part of the donation!
Warning
This software is supplied as is, without any warranty expressed or implied. We are not
responsible that this software behaves well under all conditions. We have tested it deeply but
it must be clear that by downloading it, you will keep the risk of using on your computer.
If you don't intend to accept this risk, please don't download.
History
ver. 2.0 (2009-07-15)
- saving of the uptime maximum value, with adjudtable frequency;
- reset of the maximum uptime record with a click on a button;
- link to the help on this site;
- coordinate change of some labels and background color;
- new icon and new design.
- Fixed a bug when used in Leopard; it should work from Mac OS X.4.3 and later;
- Changes in the screen code, necessary for Leopard;
- Some code optimization.
- Code optimizations;
- introduction of colored interfaces (skins).
- First public release.