The spirit of Tray-tober is to build small utility to be more efficient on your system. Smaller apps should take less resources and enable your PC to run faster for longer. Another major source of performance pain is when a rouge process starts to take a bunch of resources while you're working. Keeping Task Manager … Continue reading Tray-tober Day 18: Traydog
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
