Monday… what could be better than wasting time on a Monday morning? Well, I guess that doing something surely beats doing nothing, so when I bumped into Personal Activity Monitor, I knew this is something I have to tell you about today! After all, no matter how much you hate Mondays, if you can plan your entire week right now, you may end up gaining a few extra hours to add to your weekend on Friday and I am sure everybody loves weekends, so… let’s get to it, shall we?
Still in Beta stage, Personal Activity Monitor 0.1.1 was released on the 8th of March and, despite its various problems, I think what we have here is a pretty useful piece of code. Obviously, I’m not going to write about it without touching it first, so I can already tell you about the problem I encountered – while using PAM to monitor my activity (the program was running in the background), I suddenly noticed that the system tray icon disappeared. After a few seconds, I figured out that the program simply shut down, taking the logged information with it, too. Well, I guess that’s why they still keep it in Beta…
… but if we’re not being too harsh, I think we can easily conclude that PAM is a decent product already, at least as long as you’re not looking for a lot of features and the only thing you want to know is what’s happening with your time. On the other hand, PAM can only show you what’s happening, but changing your habits is up to you, so all I can say now is “good luck!!!” and nothing more, I guess.
