MultiTimer is a utility for keeping track of the time you spend on your various Mac-related projects, jobs, tasks and pastimes. The main instructions to MultiTimer are within the program itself, available under the Apple and “Help” menus. In this file I’ll fill in a few additional points. Most of this probably won’t be of much interest or meaning to you until you’ve read the main instructions and spent some time using MultiTimer. After using it for a while, you may have accumulated some questions -- which I hope will be answered here.
“Data” and “Logs”:
MultiTimer keeps its accumulated information in a file called “MultiTimer Data”, which it creates in the same folder the MultiTimer application is in. If you move MultiTimer to another folder and want to keep your information, move MultiTimer Data as well. Conversely, you can trash this file to get rid of all timer modules and start over. Log files are kept separately, in a folder MultiTimer creates called “MultiTimer Logs”.
The total times shown in a Log file may not appear to be a valid total of the session times shown in the Log. There are several possible reasons for this:
• MultiTimer keeps track of seconds internally, even though it doesn’t display them. This can cause small discrepancies as these invisible seconds are added up and rounded off.
• If you manually adjust the total time for a day, week, etc. by clicking on a number in MultiTimer’s main window and using the arrow controls, the totals shown in the Log file may no longer reflect the arithmetic totals of the individual sessions.
• When you manually adjust the total time, that adjustment won’t appear in a Log file until you start and end an actual session (using the timer start/stop button). Note also that sessions of less than one minute won’t be recorded.
• If you turn on log keeping in a module after that module has been used for one or more sessions, those previous sessions will of course not appear in the Log file. The already-accumulated totals for the module will appear, however.
Auto-saving:
In MultiTimer’s Preferences dialog, one of the settings is “Save data every __ minutes”. This gives you some protection against losing records of your sessions if your Mac should crash. If your Mac should crash during a session, the record of that session will not appear in the Log file (if you have log keeping turned on). The time of the session will be added to the total for that day, week, etc. however, so a record of your time won’t be completely lost.
The Floating Window and “TSM Fix”:
MultiTimer’s floating window option requires System 7.1 or later. You will probably notice that your mouse cursor doesn’t necessarily change into an arrow when it’s over the floating window. This is unavoidable with windows that “float” over other application’s windows. You may also find that clicks in the floating window sometimes don’t “take”, and you have to click a couple of times before the window reacts. A programmer who knows more about these things than I do says this is due to a bug in the System Software, and has written a freeware extension to remedy it. I’ve included this extension -- called “TSM Fix” -- in the MultiTimer package. If you use the floating window, and the “missing clicks” thing gets in your way, installing the TSM Fix extension will fix it.
Legal Stuff:
Karl Bunker hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Karl Bunker will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or income or any other reason, even if Karl Bunker or an agent of his has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Karl Bunker be liable for any damages, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
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MultiTimer is shareware, and it has the following pricing:
1- 10 single user licenses, $15 per user
11+ single user licenses, $10 per user
A Site License costs $300 and covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer (100 mile) radius of your site. One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
A World-Wide License costs $1200 and it covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth.
Paying for MultiTimer is easy. Open the “Register MultiTimer” program that accompanies MultiTimer. You can do this either by double-clicking the “Register MultiTimer” icon from the Finder, or by clicking the “Fill Out Order Form” button in the “Please Register” dialog that MultiTimer displays. Enter your name, your e-mail address or postal address, and the number of user licenses you desire. Save or Print or Copy the data from the Register MultiTimer program and send the data and payment to Kagi. Kagi is the company that handles my payment processing; when your payment has been processed you will receive an acknowledgement from Kagi, and a registration code from me (Karl Bunker). The registration code will turn off MultiTimer’s “Please Register” reminders.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can e-mail or fax the data to Kagi. Their e-mail address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from the Register MultiTimer program and paste into the body of an e-mail message or you can Save the data to a file and attach that file to an e-mail message. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via e-mail are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an acknowledgement from Kagi and your registration code from Karl Bunker, both via e-mail. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days. If you provide a correct Internet e-mail address you will receive your acknowledgement and registration code via e-mail.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register MultiTimer application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-C2
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
If you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies. Payments sent via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct e-mail address, you will receive your acknowledgement and registration code via e-mail.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment. Kagi cannot invoice your company, so you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
If you do not have an e-mail address, please enter your complete postal address; we will need it to send you your registration code for MultiTimer in the mail.
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You can find other fine shareware and freeware programs written by me on my Web page, located at:
http://users.aol.com/karlbunker/
Shareware distributors:
You may put MultiTimer in your CD-ROM/Disk of the Month/Web Page/shareware catalog/etc., etc. MultiTimer may be distributed by any means, as long as you don’t modify it or charge customers some unreasonable sum for it.
