One day at work, Bill Appleyard approached me and said, "Wouldn’t it be cool if..." and described having a dialog that displayed days to go until January 1, 2000, and the dialog would update itself each second. I thought, "Yeah, that sounds cool, I’ll have a go at it tonight." And the next day I had a simple dialog showing the countdown in a few different ways. Voila, the Y2KClock was born.

The Y2KClock is a countdown timer to that date of all dates, the turn of the century. You can set the clock to countdown a number of different ways, and you can place the clock on top of all other windows. All user options are stored as persistent data. That means, if you set it to display hours to go, any time you run the application, it will display hours to go, until you change that option. Also, where you place the Y2KClock on your Windows desktop will be the same anytime you run it.

New features!

• Options moved from the system menu to an Options dialog
• Added the option to select between Jan 1, 2000 and Jan 1, 2001
• Added the option to select between built-in large digits and small digits

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The installation of the Y2KClock creates the fooWare! group on your Windows Start Menu. Click the Y2KClock option from the fooWare! group to run the Y2KClock. The Y2KClock is a simple dialog. The first time you run it, the Y2KClock displays the countdown clock, and it is displayed on top of all other applications on your desktop. To change the clock options, select the Options... item from the system menu, accessed by clicking the icon on the left side of the title bar. This displays the Options dialog for the Y2KClock.

Select one of the following options under Clock Style to change the display on the clock:

• Countdown clock - counting down in the format Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds
• Years to go - counting down years until January 1, 2000/2001
• Days to go - counting down days until January 1, 2000/2001
• Hours to go - counting down hours until January 1, 2000/2001
• Minutes to go - counting down minutes until January 1, 2000/2001
• Seconds to go - counting down seconds until January 1, 2000/2001

Select one of the following options under End Point to change the date the clock counts down to:

• January 1, 2000
• January 1, 2001

Select one of the following options under Digit Style to change the size of the digits on the clock:

• Large digits - The original digits used in version 1.0 of the Y2KClock
• Small digits - Half size digits to take up less room

You’ll also see the option Keep window on top. Check this option if you want to display the Y2KClock on top of all other windows, or uncheck it to hide the window behind other applications. Finally, the last item on the menu can be used to display the About box for the Y2KClock.

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fooWare! is my own little name for the applications I’m writing for you, the public at large. Hey, I had to think of some name, and fooWare! was the first thing to come to mind. Anyone familiar with software engineering, particular programming in C, will recognize the term "foo" as a generic word used in many programming texts. Has a certain ring to it, don’t you think? fooWare! is not associated in any way with the Foo Fighters.

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The fooWare! philosophy, with thanks to my friend Reg, is pay for it if you like it. There are no nag screens in fooWare! and no crippling registration schemes. You can use fooWare! as long as you like without restriction. If you want to send me a small donation of US$5 or US$10 to help fund future fooWare! projects (and my flight lessons), please send a check payable to "Carl Lambrecht" to:

fooWare!
PO Box 23
Westwood, MA 02090

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Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments about fooWare!
E-Mail:cjlambre@geocities.com
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/9714 or http://welcome.to/fooWare

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