Persistachron

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About

Persistachron is a digital clock for the Mac. It has a small, dark, translucent screen which floats in front of most other windows of other applications. Its time is digital and displayed in the font of your choice, of the ones installed on your computer. Font size, style, and color can be adjusted too. See below for some possible font and color combinations.

Why Persistachron

There’s already the menu-bar clock, and maybe you have a clock widget. Furthermore, Persistachron has no alarm. Yet, the menu-bar clock may be too small for you and the widget clock isn’t always visible, since you have to be in the widget-view mode (by choosing Dashboard in the Dock or the F12 key) to see it. The lack of alarm may seem a glaring omission, but hopefully you already have an alarm solution. (iCal, which all Mac users have, has an alarm, for instance. Furthermore, who knows? Maybe Persistachron will get an alarm later on.)

Persistachron is for those who want still more time visibility. It can even go in front of some full-screen (hiding the menu bar) application windows, thus making the menu-bar clock invisible. In that case, Persistachron prevents having to get out of that full-screen mode to see the time.

Being able to choose your own time font and color helps you get the look you want. The window it’s displayed in is a translucent panel that allows you to see a little of what’s underneath, as if it were tinted glass displaying the time.

Persistachron can be hidden whenever not needed, and brought back to visibility too, all in the usual ways with Mac apps.

Finally, the application is tiny–just a handful of kilobytes in size, so the amount of space taken on your hard drive by Persistachron is negligible. And really finally, it doesn’t fill your hard drive with lots of files, in case you ever need to move it or delete it. (See Persistachron’s Read Me for an easy deletion process.)

Requirements

To run Persistachron, you need an Apple Macintosh computer running OS 10.7 (Lion), and a 64-bit processor. The reason for this seemingly over-the-top requirement for this modest application is that Persistachron was created using the latest software-development technology, which depends on Lion and a 64-bit processor. (One day soon, everyone will have this kind of Mac, and everyone can then have Persistachron. Joy!)

Cost

It’s free. A donation dialog window does come up when launched, but that can be dismissed. When you’re ready to donate (any amount is fine), a key is given which keeps the dialog window hidden, though you can bring it up again, since it does then remind you that you did the donation deed. (This helps those who keep lists of what they did, and need this as an aid to remind them that they indeed did donate. Are there people like this, though? Yes. Just maybe the author is one of them. But you really don’t know, because I didn’t tell you for sure. Hah.)

To make a donation (or just to consider it), click the following: Persistachron’s Donation Page

Where to Get

At the MacUpate link provided below. (It’s not in the Apple Store. That would make UmunhumSoft have to charge for it to pay for the cost of putting it there. The savings is being passed on to you.)

Get Peristachron here: Persistachron at MacUpdate

At this time, there is no other place to get Persistachron. That may change, and when it does, those places authorized will be mentioned here. For your safety, please don’t get Persistachron from any place that isn’t approved of here, by UmunhumSoft.