Sep 7, 2010
SY Tan

Track Time on Activities with Windows Free App

You probably are of the opinion that you spend a lot of time in front of your computer. However, much of this time is probably not on task as you have to deal with a lot of interruptions and disruptions. A free application from Windows, True Time Tracker, can monitor the amount of time you actually spend on task.



The app is extremely user-friendly. Once started, it will work silently in the background and display analysis of the time you spend on specific programs, the sites you visited, or the time you spend idle. You can also analyze the results by subject or project for an overall review.

True Time Tracker is useful for both personal and professional reasons. Realizing how much time you spend on Twitter or Facebook, for instance, might lead you to plan and manage your time better. You can set a password to block access by other users. Alternatively, the management can use True Time Tracker to monitor employees’ productivity or bill clients for time spent in completing a project. Download Track Time via the link here.

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4 Comments

  • Greg,

    I completely agree with every word your comment!

    You and I live horrible lives… I can't stand it when I send as email with 4 question marks in the body and the response didn't answer even 1 of them! Gesh people… If there are 4 questions, there should be 4 answers!

    Now that I just wasted my time on a time tracking app site, I need to get to work!

    Rob

  • Yes, I agree with David, where's the link to the product's homepage (as opposed to just its download link)?

    I've complained here many times about there being no link to the home page of whatever is the product or service about which you're writing. You guys usually leave it out altogether. So I'm happy to see at least the download link. That's better than nothing. At least it can be hovered over with the mouse pointer, then the shortcut copied to the clipboard, and then same pasted into the browser's "Address:" field, and then all but the domain name part of the URL can be hacked out of it to take the reader to the maker's site. But even that is a pain in the rear. The reader should not have to hack the download URL in order to get to the maker's home page.

    You see, a download link presumes that your write-up of the product was enough for the reader; that s/he does not want to go to the web site of the maker of the product which is the subject of your article and read about it himself or herself there.

    I, for one, am interested in what your article about it has to say, but I NEVER trust that witness to make the decision for me. I want to visit the maker's site and not only read what it has to say, but also how it says it.

    It is not how well YOU present the product, but how well its MAKER presents it, which most interests me. If the web site was obviously created by an idiot, then so, most likely, was the product. I just want to see for myself.

    PLEASE START INCLUDING LINKS TO THE WEB SITE OF THE MAKER OF THAT ABOUT WHICH YOU'RE WRITING, and not merely download links therefrom. Please.

    And, while I have your attention: Though I'm grateful that the author of this article either has an excellent comand of English as a second language, or is a native English speaker/writer (neither of theose things is true about most of your writers)…

    …the reader is left confused by the odd headline…

    "Track Time on Activities with Windows Free App"

    …and the first part of the third sentence of the article…

    "A free application from Windows, True Time Tracker…"

    Both of this things talk about "True Time Tracker" being "from" Windows. What does that mean? Windows isn't a company (or any other kind of business or personal entity), so nothing can be "from" it. It creates nothing. Even if the writer were shortcutting and really meant Microsoft, True Time Tracker isn't a product of Microsoft, either.

    Scratching my head and trying to figure it out, I thought at first that maybe the writer of the third sentence got "from" and "for" confused; and so the sentence should have been…

    "A free application FOR Windows, True Time Tracker…"

    But then that still leaves us with the headline, which errs in referring to it as a "Windows Free App" because though it's free, and it's an app, it's NOT from "Windows." The way those words are constructed, the suggestion is that it's FROM Windows (which I've already explained isn't possible in any case).

    That headline SHOULD have been: "Track Time on Activities with free Windows App"

    Order is everything.

    If these errors were made by someone for whom English is a second language, then my hat's off to him/her for how well the rest of the article was written (though s/he might want to become familiar with the comma, and several other forms of punctuation). It's a joy (because it's rare) to read an article here wherein one need not struggle with the terrible English. So, thumbs-up on at least THAT part of it.

    However, the subtleties of English must be mastered, too, or else meaning is convoluted and the reader is unecessarily confused. In the headline, order is everything; and in the third sentence, "from" and "for" are *NOT* the same thing, and cannot be used interchangeably.

    However, if the writer is a native English speaker/writer, then SHAME on whatever schools educated him/her.

    One can call it hair-splitting all one wants, but this stuff MATTERS. The English language is capable of expressing more precision than almost any other language. Consequently, when it's used badly, tremendous imprecision results. If this web site is going to insist on using writers for whom English is such a challenge, then can't it at LEAST invest in a native English speaker/writer to be a copy editor?

    ___________________________________
    Gregg L. DesElms
    Napa, California USA
    gregg at greggdeselms dot com

  • where is a link to program homepage? please post. thanks!

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