Code Genocide

I am happy to announce a new Mac product from Code Genocide called, Desktop Remind!

Desktop Remind embeds your calendar on your desktop, above your wallpaper but below your desktop items.

With Desktop Remind you can quickly and effortlessly now exactly what is on your calendar for the current day, and beyond.

Desktop Remind is user configurable, so you can place it exactly where you want on your desktop, and configure the font and font color to match your taste and/or wallpaper.

Desktop Remind also works with multi-monitor setups.

Feel free to give it a try for 14 days before a registration is required. A registration can be purchased for $4.99. Purchase here

1. JohnH Says:
   September 21st, 2008 at 9:41 am

   This is a cool little program. Worth more than $4.99. Oops, sorry, did I say that out loud?
   Of course there are always the proverbial feature requests. Like, live update as I enter new events to iCal so I don’t have to restart the program, ability to display larger than 11 point font without chopping off the tails of “y” “g” etc. Maybe grab the colour of the events from iCal to display the list on screen. This maybe difficult with some screen colours though. Ability to display time in 12 hour segment rather than 24 hour clock.

2. cartothemax Says:
   September 21st, 2008 at 9:29 pm

   I am having lots of trouble just getting Desktop Reminder to show up at all on my Desktop when it has been opened up. Also when I open the Preferences the window opens off of my screen (I have a MacBook if that matters).

3. neohaven Says:
   September 23rd, 2008 at 6:19 am

   I have a couple bug/misfeature/correction reports to say. It would be lovely to have an email, but it’s not available on this website somehow.

   So… here goes

   1) Cannot add an account to Trac. You should allow the trac software access to the password file and it’s own directory.

   2) On a MacBook, the preferences window is so far left I can barely see the (x) dot. You should get screensize and center the window according to the display instead of hard-coding the position… you can implement that with awakeFromNib.

   3) As JohnH says, increasing the font size crops the lower part of letters.

   4) You might want to consider making your app a Menu Extra (go in the Apple docs, search for NSStatusItem or NSMenuExtra) so that it does not appear in the dock and thus is more transparent to the user.

   5) Okay this is a nitpick, but the label for the height is written as “Hieght”.

   I hope this has been helpful to you.

4. neohaven Says:
   September 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am

   The last post’s point (2) should say “The preferences window is so far right i can barely…”

   Sorry for that

5. cartothemax Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

   I think I figured out my problem it seems that in “Preferences”, “Options”, “Size” — my height is set to -22 and width is 0. “Location” is x: 687 y: 397

   I think since size has one number as zero and the other as a negtive number that this maybe why it doesn’t show on my desktop? Any ideas are helpful.

   Is is possible to edit these numbers?

6. cartothemax Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

   disregard all of my comments please I am unbelievably dumb sorry to give you a head ache if I did

7. reedjohnston Says:
   October 11th, 2008 at 7:56 am

   I am having problems with Desktop Remind showing up on my screen. I have tried changing the width and height and also the x and y. But both boxes are dimmed out and cannot be changed. Need a little help in this area. Thanks,

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