Useful 3rd party tools to complement TC

[solid]

Help me guys, i'm looking for a free tray clock replacement.

tclock ex
very light and customizable and of course freeware

http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/

[SanskritFritz]

2solid

If you use a desktop theme other than Classic, TClockEx's display is not so nice because it does not have a transparency option that would allow the colour scheme of the desktop theme to show through.

TClock Light handles this gracefully, I use a OpusOS theme in XP, and it looks great with it.

I wonder, what those name collisions mean? Probably those apps have the same root somewhere...

[solid]

2SanskritFritz

TclockEx is rather old program (last update 2000) but works flawlessly, and is very light on size, that's what i appreciate in software (same as TC )

As i don't use themes and other fancy stuff, i don't mind the lack of the transparency. And at home i'm still runing 98se, so there is no transparecy at all

[B@rndH]

2solid

If you use a desktop theme other than Classic, TClockEx's display is not so nice because it does not have a transparency option that would allow the colour scheme of the desktop theme to show through.

TClock Light handles this gracefully, I use a OpusOS theme in XP, and it looks great with it.

I wonder, what those name collisions mean? Probably those apps have the same root somewhere...

I just wanted to support SFritz ... TClock Light is my absolute favourit! Light, stable, versatile. Since SF didn't mention a URL, here it is:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/index.html

BTW (2solid): TClock Light (last updated Sept. 2004) is working on all my systems ranging from 9x to XP without hassle!

[SanskritFritz]

2B@rndH
I did mention it

And, it is open source in contrast to TCEx.

[B@rndH]

@SanskritFritz: Sorry ... missed it at the bottom of the last page.

[SanskritFritz]

2B@rndH
Ehehe... better twice than never

[van Dusen]

I didn't know TClockLight... nice tool, thanks for the tip!
It's a pitty, that TClockLight doesn't support as much date and time elements as TClockEx do (week of the year, e.g.) .

If you choose the background colour of TClockEx well, the edge between TClockEx and the rest of the Task-/traybar is barely noticeable:
http://img166.echo.cx/img166/4972/tclockex4iw.png

[B@rndH]

You can adjust the colours of font and background. I never tried it since I don't use the "modern" XP-style but the "classic" windows gray.

[van Dusen]

You can adjust the colours of font and background.

Yes, I've suggested exactely this for TClockEx-users

[SanskritFritz]

If you choose the background colour of TClockEx well, the edge between TClockEx and the rest of the Task-/traybar is barely noticeable

Well, it is very well noticeable, besides i use a gradient theme.

[Leif]

LClock (free of course) is a modified (stripped down) version of Kazuto Sato's TClock Light. - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=157465

[Lion]

The 1st Clock IMHO is the best TClockEx's follower (esp. 3.0 version with CPU and mem usage). But it is not free.

Nevertheless, I just can't live without TClockEx ATM

[icfu]

LClock looks nice but has too few options, no alarm clock, no seconds display, no time sync, etc...

But $30 for 1st Clock? This must be a bad joke. Nope, comments unneeded.

Icfu

[StickyNomad]

2SanskritFritz

I would like to customize my tray clock, so it shows the time and the date

You might try PTBSync. It offers much more than a customizable tray-clock (Time sync, desktop calendar and more), so it may not be suitable for you, but AFAIK all other functions can be disabled so you can use only PTB's (quite nice IMHO) tray clock.