A few screenshots of Clock5 on a Revo

Martin Guthrie takes up the story of Clock5...

I use my Series 5 at work on a daily basis. Some of the information in it is relatively sensitive. Quite often I have to wander away from my desk and on a number of occasions I've come back to my desk to find someone playing with my Psion out of 'techno-curiosity'. I'd started to use the built-in password screen on the machine but it's a pain to use every time and I didn't always remember to set it. On my PC I make use of one of the standard 'sleeping' screensavers that has password protection built into it to 'guard' its contents temporarily and I thought it'd be useful to have something similar on my Psion that looked after the 'security' automatically.

Clock5 on a Series 7 / netBook

When I had a Series 3a, I was a great fan of Dan Comiskey's 'Clock' program for the 3a/c that displayed a very nice digital clock over the whole space of the screen. The digits were displayed with grey 'shadows' behind them and the whole thing looked very appealing - especially from a distance. After a while he developed Clock to have a bring-to-front-on-timeout feature - although from memory I don't think there was ever password protection built into it (I may be wrong though). So that was the plan then - to generate an improved EPOC version that could be used as a password-protected screensaver...

Clock5 has progressed since then however and now runs on any EPOC machine - be it Series 5, 5mx, revo, mako, Series 7, netBook, Geofox, Ericsson MC218, or Oregon Osaris.? It's also available in 14 different languages:- English, Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Russian!

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   Release  EPOC (Psion)  1.88  2003-05-29  by Martin Guthrie