When it comes to classic Windows games, for me Minesweeper. Now you can pop into some fun mine sweeping in your system tray with Mini Sweeper! This is a faithful recreation of the original minesweeper but with some extra updated visuals and animations build with Windows Composition APIs. If you are really aching for the … Continue reading Tray-tober Day 17: Mini Sweeper
I'm aware that home automation is a deep topic, so my app today is more of an experiment than anything. Does having a small ephemeral tray utility to control lights make sense? I have some Wiz lights at home and they are built to be easily controlled on the network. Making them easy to talk … Continue reading Tray-tober Day 16: Tray Wiz
The classic Windows clock does its job pretty well, but what neat little extras could get added to make an awesome clock in the system tray. Animated notify icons showing stopwatch and timer progress. Glanceable information has always been the purpose of the tray and now timers can be glanced easily. There are a million … Continue reading Tray-tober Day 15: Tray Clock
Checking the sports scores from the previous day is a classic ritual. A quick link straight to the official YouTube highlights gives you everything you'd need. Tray Sport is a simple way to get the info you need without the clutter and crap that frequently surrounds simple scores. Keeping in touch with multiple scores across … Continue reading Tray-tober Day 14: Tray Sport
In QR Code the Q stands for quick. In Tray QR the Q stands for "quick and easy and out of the way." That is what you can expect when using this tool. Many jobs need little QR codes here and there, but there is a dark side to QR Codes that can burn you. … Continue reading Tray-tober Day 13: Tray QR
