PolarClock
- Language Selection (28 languages so far)
- Text alignment (outside, centre or inside of arc)
- Font size 12 - 30pt
- 24/12 hour clock modes
- Flipping of text when it’s in the lower half of the arc (to stop it being upside down)
- Guidelines behind arcs
- Arc properties (thickness, padding, radius )
- A spacer Arc for padding between Date and Time ( movable to be between any arc)
- Continuous/Stepped motion (continuous was requested a lot, so that you can see a minute slowly stretching each second to become the next minute etc).
- Ordering of the arcs. You can put the arcs in any order that you want.
- Colours: Luminance, change the lightness of the arcs
- Colours: Saturation, change the strength of the colour
- Colours: Hue offset, change the hue of the arcs to between 0º and 360º.
A comprehensive options panel has been added, see below:
Download
You can download as screensaver here [zip] Mac OS X 4.4Mb [zip] Windows 2.0Mb
And as an OSX Dashboard Widget here [zip] Mac OS X Widget 356Kb
Credits
I’d like to thank all the people that helped out with translation and beta testing. They are: Boolean, Fred, Kamil, Joel, Jan, qureyoon, guadonpost, nuzzaci, rmart, kamen56, adt, vitor, hsin, nstasinopoulos, HUcast, senny, Etam, pirho, Thomas, Gyt, skadet, Felipe Santini, dan, weq, korocop, interfuser, sub, foizy, Dennis van Lith, napalmcool, and of course, some use of babelfish!
Warning
Some people have reported that the rings of the clock burn into their screens. I have not seen this as an issue, but I suspect that is because my monitor is set to sleep 15 minutes after the screen saver starts, so there isn’t sufficient time to do any damage. So I’d suggest that you do the same on your set up.
Donate
If you would like to donate towards all the work I have put in so far, and towards future releases, please click the button below.
268 Comments so far
I’ve been waiting for this release! Fantastic work–it’s really come together nicely.
Been waiting too, I love the continous motion, Hue offset … basicly all the refined features ^^ Great work!
Simply beautiful; excellent work.
Amazing :)
*installs*
Thanks a lot for this great saver! I don’t suppose you’d open up the source to this? I’d like to see how you pulled it off.
awesomeness !
Great work
Heres a suggestion for the next
How about having an option to seperate the time from the date… and have the Year a part of date section
Hi Pixelbreaker! New features is great. But russian version is not great. If my comment about russian translation was poor, i can write it again (or maybe send e-mail). I like PolarClock and want to help you.
//sorry for my bad English :)
Omega, I have added the ability to change the diameter of a spacer ring, which is by default between Month and Hour. If you download again and install, you will need to go to the settings and restore to defaults.
I wont be adding the year to the time, as I can’t pick a range of years, for example, I can’t really do an arc from 2000 - 3000 etc…
Gyt Thanks for that help with the russian bugs…
Hi !
Could you do an option to make a “closed” circle not to “rewind” to the beginning as it actually do, but to rewind to the other side.
But actualy, it’s a really nice work !
thank you, and congratulations for this release! definately something to celebrate after your hard work.
I haven’t even tried it all out yet, but am excited
hey man nice work!
It appears that you are redrawing the day date hours etc every frame may be good to draw these to a bitmap perhaps or not call redraw on all the arcs?
Not sure if you dont already do this..
nubber I’m only redrawing the text when the text value changes, or it has to flip.
I think you should include an option which allows to retype text in the next version.
Example:
Replace “Monday” by “Abc” by typing text in the screen savers configuration panel.
That could be a nice idea to translate new languages easily, no ?
PS: Excuse me for my possibly bad englich, I’m French… ^^
Nice work.
Any chance of a language ‘none’ which doesn’t display any characters : )
Heya
It’s working great here
Question about the colours — did you ever integrate anything along the lines of Chromo into this? Was wondering if a certain Hue/Saturation setting lined up with Chromo or something …cause you had mentioned it as an idea …
Congrats again on a successful release
Nice…
Installed, some language corrections on greek version only(probably my fault).
I’m here to fix them :)
Anyway, it looks great!!
Chris No, I didn’t implement Chromo™ because there were usage rights issues, plus, by changing the hue offset, it’s pretty much the same as Chromo, without having to use some fiddly colour palette!
Brilliant - :D
Great work, best screensaver I’ve ever seen.
Is it possible to make a desktop background version?? because I can only see it when I’m away from the computer (and come back) and I would like to see it everytime I’m at the computer.
keep up the great work
Same question as Shodan… With V2, I just copied the URL of the online version, set it as an Active Desktop item, and made it fill the screen. I was able to find the URL of the flash version at the top of this page by looking at the source code, but when I tried to set it as the Active Desktop, It showed up very small. If I paste the same URL in my browser (Opera), it shows up perfectly. If you were able to make another online version, even without options, it would be just fine for me.
Great job!
Congratulations - far and away the best screensaver I’ve come across. I’m in awe! Many thanks
Well, I have made it primarily as a screensaver, I will be making an OS X Widget for it too.
Hiya,
FANTASTIC!!
I think maybe a year column would be good.
you should look for funding to make a wall mountable version of this with a flashable memory to upgrade to future versions
I’ve found a way to make into a wallpaper in WinXP. go to google and find a program called “wallpaper maker”. with this program make an exe and install, then copy the contents of “windows\system32\polarclock3 dir” to the place where the wallpaper was installed (userprofile\my documents\my flash wallpapers\name of wallpaper), goto display properties and change to another wallpaper then back again and it works (if you edit the html file for the wallpaper, you can remove the nag text). for customizing the wallpaper you need to customize the screensaver and copy the files from polarclock3 dir again to the flash wallpaper dir.
On my machine it’s working beautifully :)
Hey excellent excellent stuff! I would pay money to get a watch that looks like polar clock :D
hi!
can you say me, which colouroptions i must use to have the colours of the polarclock 1?
sneppa, I don’t know what you mean?
Is there any way to make the circles not to “rewind” so fast and on anti-clockwise way ?
I feel it very disgracefull when the circle go from 59 seconds to 00 (for example).
Sorry for my English ;)
I think sneppa wants to know what color setting will be the same as the older versions (for example, the second hand will be red when it nears 59).
Hi,
I would like to award you Flashculture motion graphics of the week award. Can you email me for details.
regards
phil
Thanks so much for the screen saver; I love it!
I want the one back that I had set as my background with the seconds in the middle. I am sad that it is gone :(.
Thanks. It’s working great! Fun and unique.
i have read about how some one has used polar clock as wall paper but has any one got an easier way please as i am not sure about what you have to do or can you produce one just for wall paper
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! Is there any way of hiding the text seconds, minutes, hours? It really annoys me when they go back to 0 and the text is too big. I’d still like to keep the numbers, though.
I’d like to see this as a Yahoo! widget.
I’ve made up a webpage with the swf polarclock embedded, for use as a windows active desktop wallpaper thing. I’ve left your copyright notice in tact - I hope I’m not infringing anything.
You can find it at http://huckle.110mb.com/polarclock/ .
For those who don’t know, to add it to your desktop, open display properties>desktop>customize desktop>web, and click “new”. Paste in the above uri (That’s for XP - not sure about earlier versions or vista).To have it match the desktop totally, set the desktop colour to rgb(34, 34, 34).
It looks great!
If you would like me to remove it, please email me.
The spacer doesnt seem to make that much of a difference to the clock
I was thinking about having an option like Polarclock V2 where its like half the size of the time…
Not that this makes it any less good than it is
(Best Free screensaver I have seen)
Sorry, i missed the slider controls
Never mind the last comment well the first part of it
Very Very cool
Awesome work! Any chance of this being ported to a Linux screensaver?
this is sooooo cool how did u thin of it
This clock is tight buddy
This is tight buddy
It would be awesome if you could do a clock like that like the one in the new Battlestar Galactica t.v series. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just watch the first season. It’s really good.
I installed the screen saver on my desktop, took a break from my desk, when i came back 4 of my work mates were staring at it. Now everyone wants a copy
Just a little something:
The 24 hour mode works fine, it just irritated me that 14:00 was displayed in the upper right corner.
Its basically a 12 hour mode with 24 hour display.
If thats the way it is, its fine by me. I just expected a 24 hour circle for 24 hour mode ^^
Anyway excellent work!
Hello pixelbreaker!
I like your screensaver very much!
I just wondered, why you’ve used Screentime for Flash instead of InstantStorm…
Do you consider recreating windows installer in InstantStorm?
Do you miss some feature in InstantStorm?
Thank you for your answer!
instantStorm was buggy, and I didn’t find an easy way to add config panels.
http://huckle.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/pixelbreaker-polar-clock-wallpaper/
Excellent design. You should sell this design to a watch manufacturer. It would be an excellent analog - digital timepiece.
Hey, quick suggestion on the widget:
Perhaps it would be better without a background? It feels so clunky with the gray background. At the very least it needs one that’s transparent.
Hi anykey, I tried that, but there are issues with WebKit (safari), it doesn’t support transparent SWFs, so I was forced to do a solid background, or nothing at all. If this issue is fixed in the WebKit that ships with Leopard later this year, I will change it for that.
Would look much better if the background was jet black rather than grey.
FYI: I don’t think you can use it as wallpaper on Vista, they removed Active Desktop.
I love this screensaver….any chance we will see it for Linux?
I have the Polar Clock set as my home page. How nice it is to open Firefox and have the clock bleed it’s colors over the screen! Thanks.
So can I not open it up as a homepage anymore? Is the only option to open to this page?
awesome.
suggestion: jet black background instead of dark grey, or option to change background color
can anybody explain why i would have issues running this as a screensaver or have issues using the huckle page to synch an active desktop? (i get an error with that one)
Small bug, if no one has mentioned it, but to day is the 31st, and the month ring is overflowing and bumping into it’s own backside. :)
I think it’s one of the best screensafer I got! Thank u!
ah, tim, well noticed, I’ll sort that out tonight!
Great! thanks
I was wondering why it seems to take so much CPU to run the screen saver and widget on an PPC Mac. Is there anyway to make the run more efficiently.
I can’t seem to get the OS X screensaver to download correctly. Every time it finishes downloading, the ZIP expander just hangs and Safari says “decompression failed”. I also tried downloading it with Camino. Possible the archive is corrupted?
I got the widget to download properly.
followup: I tried re-downloading and unzipping the file with Stuffit Expander and got an error there too…
Mike, I am aware of an issues with performace, not just on PCC macs. I am going to rework some of the code over the next week, the will release v3.1 of the clock, with a load of fixes…
Damian, I just downloaded the zip myself and it all works fine, your download must be cutting off before it’s 100% complete.
Do “Get Info” on the zip, it should be exactly 4,594,826 bytes.
Beautiful. Clean and Clever
I finally did get it to download properly.
Totally gorgeous, but very resource intensive. I keep Activity Monitor going and have it display a graph of processor usage. When I activate the screensaver, my MacBook’s fan kicks in after a minute or two, and when I come back out, I see by the Activity Monitor graph that while PolarClock was running, my processor activity was very heavy — and that it dropped the second I came out of screensaver.
The widget version, incidentally, seems to use from between 15-25% of my processor.
Fun eye candy, but probably not a good idea to leave it running all the time.
Damnian, yes, the widget version is vastly more efficient because it’s drawing to a smaller area of the screen. I think most of the processor usage is down to the flash player vector renderer.
Anyway, new release coming soont that will hopefully be a bit less greedy on CPU cycles!
I love the dashboard widget for this, but is there any chance of maybe getting a mini version? Closer to the size of the clock widget, or maybe the same size but with a transparent background?
And the customization options for the screensaver would be much appreciated in the widget.
Apart from that, awesome! :D
2 possible problems
1: The settings don’t save so you have to keep adjusting them
2: I think the screensaver doesnt work and sometimes makes the startbar disappear
Good afternoon!
I’m from Brazil and speak portuguese.
I loved your screensaver and put it too on my portfolio and putted your site [credits].
The site: http://portfoliofekos.wordpress.com
That is a problem?
Thanks and wait for feedback!
SOOOOOOOOOOO NICE!!
I LOVE THIS CLOCK, GR8 WORK!
=]
Really very nice Indeed.
Really nice indeed
Wow! Great work! This new version solves every problem I had with v2, and it’s now officially my screensaver.
If I might make one request, however, it would be to make the color controls a little more intuitive.
Regarding that Chromo color stuff above, I have to say, the science behind it is dubious at best.
Thanks
i love this!
it is absolutely beautiful!
i am using the widget and the screensaver!
Just saw this today and started to use it. I put the seconds on the inside and the month on the outside so the movement is lessened. From Atlantic City N.J. Good job.
Fantastic! Very, Very well done. I just love the concept.
Are there any plans for a Linux version? Cheeky I know but I have to ask as I’m mainly an Ubuntu user.
When value of a ring is at 0, you should make the text appear to the counter clockwise side of “12″, and in that way you don’t misrepresent the given value by including some clockwise rotation in the ring. Otherwise, pretty good design. Perhaps also include a selection to have the ring values be discrete, instead of strictly proportional.
Hi,
Great work! I really like this. I had only two suggestions: Like Norbz said, can you make an option for it so that the circles snap forwards at the end of their cycle to start again, rather than backwards? Basically, disconnect the beginning of the circle, and haul it forwards, around through the end, to form a new beginning. I think it’d look cool.
My second suggestion is the possibility of having an overlay for Windows, sort of like BGInfo does, or perhaps utilizing the Active Desktop (although, maybe that would prevent desktop wallpaper, which would not be good).
Thx again! :)
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Hi,
I managed to get it to work as Active Desktop in Windows XP, but not perfectly:
(reference pic)
http://tinyurl.com/yq2uay
You have to right-click on the Desktop, hit “Properties”, click the “Desktop” tab, click the “Customize Desktop…” button, click the “Web” tab, click the “New” button, under “Location”, paste in:
http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/wp-content/flash/polarclock3/PolarClock3.swf
Click “OK”, click that you want to Synchronize & make it available offline, Hit “OK” on all dialog boxes (on “Display” Dialog box, you can just hit “Apply” if you want to keep it open).
Now, a flash object will show up on the Desktop, but it is very small. but, if you go to the top of the object, it has a window toolbar that becomes visible. You can resize by grabbing the edges / corners and dragging. The flash object inside can be moved by grabbing it (not an icon!) and moving it. You can also right-click inside of it and hit “Zoom In”. The only problem is that the flash object is not transparent.
If someone has a better method, please post it! :)
Jet Black background please, I’m running it as Wallpaper on OS X using Wallsaver
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love it!!!!
i’ve been using v2, and i just found out today that v3 was released. didn’t think it could get any better, but it has. great job!
anyway, thought i’d give a suggestion of my own. you could simplify it even more by replacing seconds/minutes/hours with just s/m/h. that way the colour bands flow more fluently (tbh i don’t quite like how it is set a certain size to accomodate the words at the start of the cycle). or perhaps at least have an option for it? (: and i mean like really, i think we’re pretty much familiar enough with time without needing to read the whole word, so yea, do give it some thought.
oh and with all the requests for a black background, i’m gonna give a +1 to the grey, i think it’s great ;)
looking forward to 3.1!
Awesome clock!
I’ve added a post in my blog http://www.recursosflash.es to it.
Congratulations for the results of your efforts. The flash community needs more contributors like you!.
Best regards.
Only one thing about the clock.
Flash Player 9 is sending warnings when executed. Does anyone have this problem too?
Thanks in advance.
Looks really nice on my mac. I love it
Wow, Amazing!
I’d love to see it as a regular application, or a rocket dock docklet!!
Michael Gartner
linkcrews.com
it looks good.i didn’t understand what is it?why is it used?
so no idea but ohhh!i got it.
it is good&hope it works good.
Brilliant work. This could be used to make a real watch.
Hi!
I would like to display poloar clock on my website …
Do you have a (link) that I could point to that display the polar clock?
Regards,
Mark Jones
this is great, congratulations to all the people who created the unique system
i only wish there is a watch much the same
great work!
This is for Mark Jones.
You can see polar clock embedded on my site:
www.recursosflash.es. There you can get the code
Best regards
Nice Stuff.
Would it be possible to do this the other way round, something like an “polar Countdown”? I could use something like this and the design of your clock is great . And I think it would be great as a Countdown-Timer.
RevolutionaryDesign
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Terrific! But is it possible to show the clock only in the main monitor. Macbook run the screensaver really really slow for both my displays. (24″ + 13″)
Nice!!! This will be my screensaver from now on!!!!
Little inspiration from The Designers Republic? Specially the wipeout series! I like it! Well done! Thanks!
Will be my default screensaver for a very long time! Thanks! Keep up the good work :)
I am in the jet black camp! It would look much sexier as a screen saver that way. An ability to adjust the background color would be amazing.
Great work!
Am i the only person wanting this clock on mobile phone? Of course i already tried, but the SWF doesn’t work on my Nokia 6233. Any plans in this direction?
The 24 hour clock only works on the numbers, and not the graph itself. Would it be possible to have a toggle to make the 24 hour clock graph be relative to the actual 24 hours of a day, instead of the 12 of a standard clock?
The app is otherwise great!
I’d love to see some pixel effects on this in the future, glow, motion blur or some other animation, both as eye candy and to prevent burn in.
Is there some thing wrong with the link/mirror because I can’t open it. It says error #17537 when trying to open it. I really want this.
THat’s really nifty.
This is the best screensaver ever!!!
i love this… is there a way/place we could make a small donation (such as paypal) to spread the love? i wouldn’t mind donating a few dollars for something i look at all day long.
cheers
r
Top work… You should be the mayor of Branscombe by now :)
This is totally awesome!
Super screensaver!
Seems to me though, it takes up an extreme amount of CPU (OSX Intel) - from the Activity Monitor the Screen Saver App takes up about 55-60% CPU. In comparison standard savers like Flurry or RSS Visualizer takes up a max 5-6%.
Any reason? possible solutions?
If it’s possible, you should add week start configuration. I was a bit confused when i saw the week ending on saturday. I know it’s a tradition in some countries, but it’s not like that in many other ones =)
But the screensaver and the widget are awesome, thanks!
how about a week that starts from monday? that would be great
i agree whit labria.
how about a week that starts from monday? that would be great
I’d like to see the seconds continue going clockwise when it resets at 59 seconds. It appears that it goes backwards. seems confusing. Have the tail of the “seconds” circle (the first second) circle arround clockwise for one second catching up to the top of the “hour”. It would seem almost like it was being sucked up into itself durring that one second, then pushes forward through itself by the 2nd second.
Nice work. very fluid and engaging.
Hihi!!
Tried downloading the screensaver zip for windows, but there’s some error to it and I can’t open. Is the file corrupted or am I doing something wrongly?
Runnng it as a s creensaver on my Windows XP machine, the program refuses to save any customization settings. For instance I uncheck the 24 hour clock, and hit PREIEW and it has a 12-hour clock. But as soon as the actual screensaver kicks in, it’s back to 24-hour clock.
Beggars can’t be choosers, but I’m wondering if there’s a fix.
Hi there, really really love this screensaver its beautiful. one question though. im currently running a dual monitor setup and when its shown on both monitors it causes the screensaver to lag considerably (i think mostly cause my second screen is a big widescreen one compared to my 12 inch powerbook screen)
is there anyway to disable the screensaver from running on the second monitor, or at least running at a lower resolution so its not chugging away so hard. thansk!
Its a very nice clock Screen-Saver I have ever seen. Thanks to the Developes
Love it! Cant wait to see a 3d version :D
So simply and so beauty… and useful too.
Good work.
cool
Wow I want to by a Mac just to use Ver 3. Good job and congrats on what had to be hard work. thank you for keeping this free!
there is a PC version…
…semplicemente fantastico…
I would like to suggest a new feature for the next version. I cannot describe it properly in words, but Tom has attempted to do so in a previous comment:
Tom said on August 28th, 2007 3:59 am: “I’d like to see the seconds continue going clockwise when it resets at 59 seconds. It appears that it goes backwards. seems confusing. Have the tail of the “seconds” circle (the first second) circle arround clockwise for one second catching up to the top of the “hour”. It would seem almost like it was being sucked up into itself durring that one second, then pushes forward through itself by the 2nd second.”
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I will show the feature as a picture. Also, please make it common for all the rings, not just “seconds”. Here is the picture:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/20/534119/PolarClockNewFeature.png
I omitted the word “seconds” in my picture for simplicity, but you don’t have to (that’s not what I want). The red dotted line from top to the middle is the 12 o’ clock line, and the red dots following the colour arc is how the movement animation is supposed to take place. Note that the back end of the arc stops moving once it reaches the 12 o’ clock line, while the front end continues to move.
I hope you would consider this in the next version of PolarClock! Please add this feature and allow it to be ON by default, but also allow the user to turn it OFF and go back to the old version.
Also, will you be coding this clock as a Windows Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista? If you could tell me how to call that “Settings” dialog of the screensaver as an embedded SWF file, I could make a gadget myself.
Thanks a lot for listening and considering :)
~Arun
PS: I really love your concept of Polar Clock :D
is it possible for you to change the background to pure black?
@agntcarter & others concerned:
There is a way to edit the text that is shown in the arcs, that is, if you want to change seconds/minutes/hours/etc. to s/m/h/etc.
Go to the folder “C:\WINDOWS\system32\PolarClock3 dir\xml”.
Find the XML file which corresponds to your language (for English, it’s en_GB.xml)
Back up the original file by making a copy (this is for restoring if anything goes wrong).
Edit the original file (not the backup copy) by opening it in Notepad or (if Notepad makes it look messy) Wordpad. You can usually find both by right-clicking the file and pointing to “Open With”.
Save the edits and run your screensaver. You should notice the difference.
Enjoy!
~Arun
i was wondering…
i downloaded the Zip file and tried to extract the files
but it prompts you to:
–”Please insert the last disk of the Multi-Volume set and click OK to continue”
didnt know if my computer is just going bizzerk
or if i needed to buy this so called Multi-Volume set of which is speaks
thanks
@Ethan
Are you in Windows?
Have you tried re-downloading the file?
Try using 7-Zip to extract, it worked for me.
You can get 7-Zip at www.7-zip.org
There’s no such thing as Multi-Volume set for this ZIP file. Just make sure you downloaded the correct file (don’t download the Mac file for Windows)
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The polar clock is a nice clock big credits to pixelbreaker for making it. However i’d like the clock to have an countdown function is this possible or ??
This clock would be great in a cell phone… Please, think about it.
Hey pixelbreaker, any chance this works on Vista? If not, any chance of a future release?
Sweet man. Well done.Really nice work.
JUst one request for future releases:
can the backgorund color animate so it also serves its screenaver purposes (of not having the same color at the same place for too long)or maybe at certain intervals all the colors (background included) to invert.
Again this is the nicest screen saver ever, well done
s
Sweet man. Well done.Really nice work.
just one request for future releases:
can the background color animate so it also serves its screensaver purposes (of not having the same color at the same place for too long)or maybe at certain intervals all the colors (background included) to invert.
Again this is the nicest screen saver ever, well done
s
Very cool screen saver pixelbreaker. Unfortunately it seems to max out my CPU on this powerbook G4 1.5ghz laptop. After it runs for a while the fans kick on all the way and I can feel the heat. I don’t want to melt this little guy so I’m going to have to stop using it.
Very nice and innovative screesaver - I love it.
However, imo, the whole concept would be “more correct” if the hour ring would represent 24 hours. That way one whole “hour ring” would equal one notch on the next higher one (day).
But, probably a 12h ring is easier to read.
Anyway, nice screensaver.
hi, the day of month ring is overlapping the start today (30th september). just thought i’d mention it. you can see it in the flash movie above too!
hi gabriel,
is there any way to make the screen backdrop of the mac screensaver a different color, i.e. white?
cheers.
Hi.
Great work with this awesome clock.
I have a problem tho. In polish language, polish letters arent displayed. No żźćąęół, just blank space.
Nice Scren saver in the end..Excellent effort..I wish i could put that in my blog.Wonderful Work..
Very very good design. Concuratulations…
(I’m From Turkey)
I ‘d like to report a bug, but I can’t seem to find a way to email you. I use the Mac OS X widget version of the program on an Intel Mac running 10.4.10 and the clock does not display the hour correctly, as I use military-style time (24 hour instead of 12 hour).
I’m running the Windows version, and the spacer doesn’t seem to have an effect on the screen saver. (There is no space.) I’ve tried moving it and restoring the default settings, but it still won’t create a space.
Anyone else notice this?
Otherwise, a beautiful screen saver though. I absolutely love it! I just wish it wouldn’t kick up the fans so much on my Mac at home. Works great on my Windows machine at work though. Keep up the good work, pixelbreaker!
Though a dashboard widget for OS X exists, is there any possibility of seeing a similar gadget for the Vista Sidebar?
It’s a wonderful screensaver, thank you for your hard work!
The screensaver is fantastic!!! ONE PROBLEM: It wont let my computer sleep using Windows Vista. Please fix this!!!!!
Hi! Just wanted to say that I love it! Its amazing! :)
But I would like to see it in Icelandic.. and I was wondering if I could help out with a translation?
Please contact me via email if you’re interested at adding another language, I would love to have it in my language :)
Its fantastic work…
I really liked it.
this is quite an awesome screen saver.
and yes, unique too.
***** (five stars)
Nice clock, but I wish a countdown function too. =)
That would be impressive motivator toward deadline dates. =)
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Muy bueno, excelent
so good
very good
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Yep, I’m rooting for a black background too. Thanks!
As with everybody else, I love the clock, both as a screensaver, but more usefully as a widget.
Someone asked early on about opening up the source and I would love to see that, but how about making a tutorial/post/screencast etc. about the techniques you have employed. As an flash/actionscript developer I would love to be able to more fully understand some of the effort that has gone into making it.
Keep developing it - how about some kind of opacity control on the background, or adjusting the size and having it float around?
Simon
Classy, and hypnotic. I can’t stop staring at it.
Hi! Beside it is already a great screensaver, i would really appreciate some features implemented in the next version:
1.) sunday is displayed as the first day of the week; it would be nice if one can choose another day (eg. Monday) as the first day
2.) an option to choose the background color
3.) in the german translation the text beside the daynumber, currently ‘er’ should be changed to ‘ter’
4.) in the german translation the texts should start with capital letters
5.) i don’t know if this is possible, but is there a way to provide a standalone application (windows)?
kind regards!
Incredible, thanks a lot for this!!
Its Good!
Thank you, I really enjoyed the idea and downloaded the windows version for Screen Saver.
thanks a lot for this
Thank you, I really good
Thank you, IT IS really GOOD
thans a lot for tihs screensaver.
cool :)
Looks like someone else had the… um, same idea:
http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaperclock/details.php?40
Thanks for pointing that out to me, I’m on his case now!
I cannot seem to make this work with Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version :S Worked great with the 32-bit version though..
What happens is that when I run the .exe the screensaver window pops up, but without any other tabs than screensaver.. When I apply the settings and go to the regular screensaver configuration panel, PolarClock is gone =(
Any ideas?
Jon, I’m guessing the the windows version doesn’t support 64-bit, check with www.screentime.com as they make the software i used to wrap up the flash as an installer!
As many others here also have noted, I would also prefer to have the 24 hour mode be one circle divided in 24 parts, instead of two 12 part circles.
i really want a watch doing that.. i will pay money too
please tell us if you’re planning to do that and if you do.. when and how to buy it..
please email me cristiantacchi@trebu-studio.com
There are plans to make this into a watch, it will take time to get production running, and start sales, I’ll of course post on here when they are for sale.
Hello gabriel!
Are there any parameters we can set when integrating the swf-file in a html-page?
I mean like in the screensaver-options: to choose the color, where the text should appear (outer-edge, center, inner-edge) or any other parameter like the size and order of the several parts of the clock?
Would be great if these are already available or will be in one of the next versions!
Do you have plans (beside selling this as a watch) for another version?
kind regards!
hi, yes, i plan to release another version, which will include some options for moving the clock around the screen (after reports of the clock burning into the screen) and also more options for changing colours, including the background colour etc.
More info soon
HI,
This is very beautiful. I have some suggestions for you.
1. The Mac Widget is nice, but is very large. I have some widgets, such as a weather map, that blow up to a larger size when you click on them. Since this clock is so large, I can’t afford to have it in my widgets though I very much want to. Could you make one that has sizing options for the user (down to 1″x1″) so they can make it an appropriate size and then blow it up to check the time as necessary (see weatherchannel’s widget - they have two, one is not what I’m talking about, the other is).
2. Can there be an option to exclude the seconds? Sometimes the seconds move too fast and are distracting. It would be great to have the option to exclude them.
3. Could there be any color options?
4. Could you perhaps make one that sits on the desktop or is up in the system menu bar where the normal clock and spotligh icons are?
Thanks,
Tim
I love your clock! The new version is great and I love the new OSX widget. I sent you a little donation via PayPal to show my appreciation for making such a great product. And I hope everyone will follow my example and send the poor kid a few quid!
hey swansong, thanks for the donation, much appreciated. I’ll try and get a new release out by the end of November!
this clock ist wonderfull but there some issues with the localisation to germany. First, the numbers first (1st) second (2nd) and so on must be translated to 1. 2. and so on. there are no letters just a simple dot. the second issue is that the week in our region starts with monday.
please consider my remarks to your new release.
sorry i missed to remark that you should use capitalisation for (Sekunden = sec., Minuten = min.,Stunden = h, the names of the months, and for the weekdays e.g. Samstag = saturday)
Hi All,
Does anyone have any estimation of how many people actually having this amazing clock installed?
i want to make new one - thought to check if it worth it.
i have a cool idea.
thanks!
Gil
COOL !!!!
For the year, instead of an ark, just put the numbers in the center of the arcs, that way you can have the year, and not have the problem of making a rewind spot for the ark.
Hey, can u help me please
can you make your screensaver for my phone?? (flash lite version) my phone screen resolution is 240×320
ThanX
SALAM
salame
Hey, can u help me please
can you make your screensaver for my phone?? (flash lite version) my phone screen resolution is 240×320
ThanX
very cool @thanks
Hi, very nice…
You need add (year count) 365 days.
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AMAZING screen saver. I love it. my only suggestion is to put an option to not show certain measures of time. The reason being I think it would be really really awesome to see what this thing would look like on new years eve. The only thing is it doesn’t fall on a Sunday so at midnight, everything would swoosh back to the beginning except for the day of the week. I just think that would be really cool.
Thanks for the screen saver!!!
Really nice screensaver. But I’m having issues on Vista 64 bit. The screensaver shows up in the screensaver options after install but then disappears from the box. Anyone know of a fix for this?
is there any chance that this could be made into a google desktop gadget? like other people have said id like to see it while im at the computer
This is really awesome!
Would it be possible to create a version for linux-users, too?
I liked this site better when you could freeley view the clock itself… o.O
Anyway you can add an option to make the clock go through the color transitions in reverse order? As it is now it goes from Blue to Red to Yellow to Green back to Blue. I know that’s roygbiv order but if you reverse it, the clock will then match up with seasons. Think about it, blue for winter, green for spring, yellow for summer, and red for autumn. Thought it would be easy enough to do and cool at the same time.
‘ kyou, I love it
If you are crazy enough….. Go to
http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/
I bought:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr/archives/2006/11/la_montre_1000100101_est_maintenant_disponible.php
I spotted similar PolarClock in at these two sites.
Enter on the left (click on the red “Enter ici la lune”)
It will open up another site which shows you
http://www.icilalune.com/
It’s in the navigation. See “Daylight Meter”
http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/
Great concept though!
Good showing and better animated, realy awesome
I (also) would like to see a linux version releaed.
In other comments there was discussion about adding the year, but unsure what year range to use. My thought - instead of making the year a swooping arm. Make the “circle” in the center.
the thing is, i think most people know what year it is. How many watches tell you what year it is?
@gabriel:
you’re right, almost no watch displays the year. But on the other hand the year would make the data displayed complete, which some people probably prefer.
What about just an option for it?
You already display the month and i guess there aren’t many watches out there that display the month.
To come to an end: i personally don’t need the year ;-))
I’ve used the v2 a long time. This screensave is just … cool and clean. Great job !
this is amazing. glad i found it.
Thanks You..!
This is a great clock!
I would really like more customization options on the next version, such as specific color selection for each ring, texts, and background.
An additional ring could also be added for a 1 second increment, meaning one full rotation per second. It would add more movement and make it even more visually impressive. But the layout may need to be reversed so that ring is the innermost ring, to avoid too much movement on too large of a scale.
Finally, the most important thing of all, beyond design, is the resource cost of this screen saver. Please please please make it more efficient. If you can only change one thing. It has to be this.
Sounds like lots of complaints, but its that close to perfect! Keep it up.
could you possibly add in a setting that allows you to change the day the cycle starts on?
(like Monday, instead of Sunday)
love the SS
but could u put the year ie(2007, 2008) in the Middle?
it doesnt have to bea a circle thing…
the year wont be going in, selecting which day is the start of the week will be added.
as for cpu use, i’m working on that!
are you planning on making a vista sidebar gadget?
no, vista will not be supported as i never use it and have no plans to
thanks for information..
thank you very much for all
oh it is perfect I will use it
thank you ..
Thank you for this..
Polar Clock …
A nice flash based clock. You can integrate it as a screen saver: Polar Clock made by Pixelpreaker
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thanks all.
when i want to write something i must rewrite it back, wich takes alot of time for me.
I would be very greatful if it would be possible to solve in any way, so that the screen saver breaks when i move my 3CAN mouse.
I would be greatful if somone or somebody could have an solution to this problem, any sugestions is apreciated.
best of luck, and thank you for an awesome screen saver!
Your .zip archive for Windows is broken!
Hello— I’m anxious for the next version, and I hope you’ve considered adding where instead of the rewinding look, that it pushes through the ring and the tail rushes forward to the end. As others have suggested, this might fix the awkward look when the rings start and the text is too big for the space allowed. If they didn’t rewind, the text could still be in the tail at the end of the ring. Maybe have this as an option for the people who don’t like the rewind look? Overall though, very slick design. I love the simpleness. Well done!
I totally love this app. I have installed on my (Intel) iMac. I would love to install it on my PowerBook G4, however the installer does not appear to work on Power PC architecture :( Very strange as the DashBoard widget works great on my PowereBook.
Any thoughts?
Stewart
thanx for artichle
being the 30th there is a problem with the ss
the 30th ring goes past the end and through the beginning…
check the flash at the top….
Feature Request: Add additional spacers and user-selected removal arcs.
Really like the clock.
Wondering if you could integrate sunrise and sunset markers into it.
Very creative!
F
Seems as if the hour ring isn’t right on windows xp …
the current time is 2pm (1400) but the ring is bearly 1/4 around.
otherwise, its a neat idea…
Oh boy, this is the best screen saver i had ever seen in my life..
JAY: The hour ring is run on a 12 hour basis, as with an analog clock.
thanks
Really like the clock.
Wondering if you could integrate sunrise and sunset markers into it.
Very creative!
Thanks for share this
thank you ..
Thanks for the cool Clock!
Amazing clock,
how about you align the clock at the other end so the text does not move, just he bars.
thnka you by msn nickleri
thnks dude
As mentioned elsewhere, the 24 hour clock ring is displayed as a 12 hour ring, only the text is changed.
Great little program!
The clock is beautiful, I like it very much. However, there is one small recommendation ,in the center plus years, How do you think it?
Very very cool!
Thanks. very cool
Thanks!!!!!
really amazing
Nice … Thanks ..
Magazine forevr
thanks nice text.
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