26 Comments so far

1. Tintin Tisch / November 4th, 2007 11:47 am

   recently I read a comment in which someone asked to add years in a seperate ring. You replied that it wouldn’t be possible since there’s no logic returning of the years.

   What you could do is add an option in which the user enters his date of birth and estimated year of death (for example based on the health index of your country), thus creating a ring of life an d death.

   I know it’s a bit sinister, but it would be a great help to stop staring at al the beautiful colours and get on with work/life, don’t you think?

   Back to work/staring at colours,

   Greetings

2. Kouros / November 4th, 2007 8:29 pm

   I like the idea of date of death (and years remaining until retirement, running backwards of course).

   I also like the idea of a version for Linux. PLEASE?

3. renzi / November 5th, 2007 1:14 am

   hi,

   i’m driving leopard on a macbook pro, and i don’t seem to have that problem with the polar clock and expose/dashboard shortcut keys. Just a heads up that this problem may not be native to just running leopard, but maybe something else?

   i’m a big newb so who knows?

   thanks again anyway, Polar clock is f*&^ing awesome.

   ren.

4. Gazeteler / November 5th, 2007 7:11 pm

   I like the idea of a version for Linux too. Please:)

5. nik / November 7th, 2007 10:33 pm

   This is to let you know I’m not getting the problem either. I’m running 10.5 Leopard fresh install on a Powerbook 1.5 ghz from two years back.

6. gabriel / November 7th, 2007 11:39 pm

   hey, yeah, i’ve just tried it on my laptop at home, and it’s fine too, it must just be my work machine, weird!, maybe it’s only if the user has two screens??!?

7. Didjee / November 8th, 2007 9:31 pm

   Hey, i’m using Polar Clock on my Mac Pro with two screens: same problem as described.

8. gabriel / November 9th, 2007 5:10 am

   try setting it to “Main screen only”, does that stop this issue?

9. Benson / November 9th, 2007 5:46 pm

   was having the same problem. changed it to “main screen” only for my dual-mon setup and the problem went away.

10. jonas / November 14th, 2007 9:17 pm

    i have the same problem on a mbp with leopard and an external monitor. the main screen only option did change anything. i think when i had only one screen, there was no problem.
    hope there is wa fix soon. it would be very sad if i had to choose an other screensaver!

11. dave / November 15th, 2007 5:03 am

    Thanks for figuring this out! I was wracking my brain!

12. marcus / November 29th, 2007 3:26 am

    Love the polar clock. Quick question though: how did you get this thing to run on screentime while using as3? I just finished creating a screensaver in as3 and screentime doesn’t want to run it.

    thanks for any insight.

13. gabriel / November 29th, 2007 11:14 am

    you need the latest version of screentime…

14. Aukcje / December 26th, 2007 11:53 am

    Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.

15. MKII / December 28th, 2007 4:35 pm

    Great little program! I love it and it actually seems to let my Windows 2000 system’s monitors enter standby mode when they’re supposed to !!! :) Unlike the Windows savers that are built in..

    BTW: using Windows it shows up on and works with dual monitors perfectly (it’s in stereo lol).

16. Werbeagemtur / January 14th, 2008 8:04 am

    I run Polar Clock on my IMac G5 PPC 17″ and also on the PC. But I got no bugs. Will be a version on Polar Clock for Ubuntu 7.10 ? By the way, I read yesterday a article about installing Ubuntu on G5 with PPC. With X86 Dual Core it´s no problem. Have anyone any experience with Ubuntu on the MAC? I think you can test it with Target Select and Firewire. Just plug on a empy HD on your Apple (10.4 / 10.5), hold down on booting the “T” key to select HD and go. Gnome is very nice :-)

17. Destructo / January 22nd, 2008 6:15 pm

    Is anyone else reporting problems using hot corners? I have the top left corner of my left monitor (dual monitor setup) set as a hot corner to activate the screen saver. I upgraded to Leopard last week and have been unable to use the hot corner with this screen saver ever since. It’s too bad, too because I love its simple elegance. Never had a problem in Tiger…

    Thanks!

18. JD / January 23rd, 2008 1:36 pm

    I love the PolarClock - it’s elegant and beautiful, congrats!
    I stumbled upon it looking for a OS X version of a “continuous timer” that I saw at a boxing gym. It’s electrical with three lights: Green for Go, Amber and Red for Stop. The trainer there had it set up so you could have 3 minutes of skipping/sparring/training, 1/2 min of warning and 1 minute rest The cycle loops for as long as you want, each phase change is marked by an alarm. I thought it would be very useful (with duration change options) for musical practise…

    Do you have any plans to make this baby a bit more customisable in function beyond a clock? Maybe you’d consider opening the code for the more tech savvy? (not me sadly)

    Anyways, I love it!

19. Daniel / January 24th, 2008 4:23 pm

    The best screensaver ever and the first really useful.
    But I have another problem in leopard… hackintosh leopard. It runs great in tiger hackintosh, even in windows thru virtual machine and in the second partition running xp. But the last version (or the backwards version in case) doesnt let install the screensaver. The installer gets closed at 95% of the setup with an error message but no report. just close and thats it.
    Hope you find a way if it s not a hackintosh incompatibility issue
    regards

20. Daniel / January 24th, 2008 4:26 pm

    ah, just for future versions… perhaps you can include sidereal time and space clocks, which is always useful in the science bussiness.

21. chels / February 4th, 2008 9:54 am

    Awesome! :)

22. Shy / February 19th, 2008 3:21 pm

    Any Chance of getting the polar clock on to a real watch??

    I would buy it in a heart beat. Maybe even 2 heart beats. . .

23. Fr3d / February 29th, 2008 9:04 pm

    The function keys still work fine for me on my Mac Mini (10.5.2).

    (I’d post this on the main PolarClock page but comments seem to be closed) I noticed a small bug - it doesn’t like leap years (screenshot): http://www.fr3d.org/dev/null/screenshots/polarclock-bug.png

24. Pascal / March 2nd, 2008 1:53 pm

    Thank you for this really awesome screensaver!

    For the next version I would really love to see a function to set another background color and an option to set the set the first day of the week to monday :)

25. Herbalife / April 10th, 2008 8:54 pm

    Just wanted to drop a note that the polar clock is fantastic. My coworkers rave about how unique it is whenever the screen saver activates it. Cheers!

26. Sam / April 26th, 2008 11:44 am

    This is a truly fantastic screensaver, very nicely done.

    I too would like to add my voice to those clamoring for Linux support ;)

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