Monday, August 27, 2007

Make Time for Ten

Ten Things About Virtual Clocks

Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive.

1. Indulge your Neo or Trinity fantasy with a 3D Matrix Clock (scroll down on page.)

2. Banshee Screamer Alarm freeware has one purpose: to wake you up.

3. Get the time announced to you at your desired intervals with Claudio freeware.

4. Custom-design your own virtual timepiece with Clock! freeware.

5. Get an attractive analog clock for your desktop with ClocX freeware.

6. Cursor Clock is a nice little freeware utility that turns your mouse into a timepiece.

7. If you absolutely positively must have the precise exact correct time on your system, check out Free Atomic Clock.

8. Kaleidoscope Clock is a morphing screensaver freeware that also displays the accurate time.

9. MultiLingual Speaking Clock freeware can tell you the time in 25+ different languages.

10. Topmost Clock freeware gives you a transparent digital or analog clock that will sit on top of however many windows you open.

For the readers with a little time on their hands, PlanetPDF.com has a nice archive of free classic literature e-books in .pdf format here.

A peek of what's upcoming on PBW this week:

Cast Balancing

RW: Book Making

The Novel Crash Cart

How to Talk to a Reviewer

The Previous Topic is a Joke

Just Seeing If You're Paying Attention

and much, much -- okay, probably not THAT much -- more . . .

11 comments:

  1. The Banshee alarm scares me.

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  2. Not really a comment on this post, so much as a general question: if/when I comment via your LJ feed, do you get the comments, and if so, will commenting there still get me entered when you hold your contests?

    I read regularly via my Livejournal friends list, as it's easier that way for me, and sometimes I comment there.

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  3. rhienelleth wrote: if/when I comment via your LJ feed, do you get the comments, and if so, will commenting there still get me entered when you hold your contests?

    I'm sorry to say that I did not set up the LJ feed you refer to and I don't receive any comments made there (I'm not even sure where it is; only that someone mentioned it existed a while back. I assume one of my visitors who is an LJ user created it.)

    I apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

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  4. After over two years of reading your blog, I've come to the conclusion that you must be the most work-organized writer in the world. Not only do you write multiple terrific books a year, but you also compile all of the interesting info that you put into this blog, run contests, etc.

    Does not going to conferences really save this much time. *g*

    Hats off to you, PBW.

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  5. rhienellet, as someone who has both a Blog with LJ feed and a LJ (which I seldom post in), I can tell you that posts made to the feed will not appear on the blog. The only way for me to see them is to read my own feed via my LJ friendlist. Since Lynn has no LJ, she won't see the comments at all.

    If you want to win books, better comment here. :)

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  6. I confess, I did a double-take at "How to Talk to a Reviewer." Although, if you put your mind to it, I'm confident you'd be positively charming for a reviewer. But why do that?

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  7. Mary wrote: After over two years of reading your blog, I've come to the conclusion that you must be the most work-organized writer in the world.

    No, I suspect my mom holds that title. But I'm probably heir to the throne. :)

    Does not going to conferences really save this much time.

    Being organized really saves the time. Not going to conferences saves me from suffering all the various forms of food poisoning, tummy bugs, head colds, allergies and skin rashes.

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  8. Jean wrote: I confess, I did a double-take at "How to Talk to a Reviewer." Although, if you put your mind to it, I'm confident you'd be positively charming for a reviewer.

    I am not going to make the obvious snake joke. See? I can be a good girl.

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  9. Anonymous2:44 AM

    Hi,

    I just noticed you mentioned our free literature e-books at the end of your article. Thanks for that.

    I put all the e-books together several years ago and a couple of weeks ago started another site doing a similar thing, only better (at least that's what I think).

    My site is a free resource for students, teachers and schools. On it I publish a select, high-quality set of classic literature and books, which anyone is welcome to download and share however they like. It includes books from authors like Dickens, Austen, Twain and so on.

    You can find out more here:

    Planet eBook - Free classic literature
    http://www.planetebook.com

    Anyway, I hope this doesn't seem like spam. I just thought if you were going to refer to the books I've made you might as well know where the better versions are.


    Regards,
    Richard

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  10. Richard,

    I appreciate you stopping by and passing along the information on your new site -- a lot of my visitors are students and teachers. I've make a note to link to the new URL in a future ten list as well.

    Lynn

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  11. Thanks for the links, these were interesting and I like those. keep it up dude :)

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