FadeTop visually reminds you to take a break

Sunday, May 27, 2012

FadeTop visually reminds you to take a break

Weekends are not a very funny time for me because I have to work hard for my blog since in Week days I face a heavy load in my phD projects. What taunts me more is that I forgot about the time in most cases and hence even fail to take a break to grab a coffee!! But my next weekends will not be like before because I have just discovered a sweet program that will take care of me by visually reminding me about the current time by fading the computer screen with a Bluish Glow!! I want to that the developer Muti very much for informing me about his software FadeTop.

Take a Look at FadeTop in action. Wait till 10 seconds when you will be able to view that blueish glow.

FadeTop Video Demo

Features and Specifications

FadeTop comes as a Installer as well as a Portable version. The installer is tiny (452 Kb) and does not have a digital signature attached with it.
Installation is clean and fast. It adds a Desktop and Quick Launch icons by default and sets the program to launch at computer start.
The Software runs on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows XP, Vista and 7. 1.1 Mb of free hard disk space is required for the installation.
It creates a tray icon that changes its color during visual break. Bluish Glow can be turned off by left clicking on the tray icon.

By default the software uses the following settings.

The software auto-fades computer screen every 15 minutes: 9:00, 9:15 9:30 etc.

The software keeps that fading for 20 seconds.

The Maximum opacity of the screen is 70% by default.

Overlay color is blue and Text color is White.

Text Size is 250 pixels.

It is doesn't show the fading if a full-screen application like a Movie or Game is running.