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Slife Time Tracker Beta for Windows
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:30 AM on January 4, 2008
Windows and Mac OS X: Previously featured Slife, a time management application that shows you exactly how you've spent your time on your computer, has released a beta version for Windows XP and later. As with the Mac version, tracking more than three applications at once requires a $34 license purchase, but one license can enable both Mac and Windows versions of Slife. The Windows tracker can supposedly track any program simply by launching it after Slife, but I had trouble (in Windows Vista Home Premium) getting Slife to recognize anything beyond the default Firefox, Internet Explorer and iTunes—perhaps some of our commenters can let us know how it works on their systems. Slife's basic versions are free downloads for Mac OS X or Windows XP or later; Windows requires version 1.1 or later of the .NET framework installed.
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sumyunguy
Posted 9:11 AM 3/1/08
I use Time Tracker [code.google.com]
sumyunguy
ethomaz
Posted 8:45 AM 3/1/08
Hi - This is Edison Thomaz from Slife Labs. We do have a secure connection on the purchase page. It looks like IE might be referring to some other elements that are not loading directly from the secure page. We will look into it. Thanks for bringing this up!
ethomaz
Dachande663
Posted 8:18 AM 3/1/08
I've been using RescueTime (rescuetime.com) for a while now, but their website has been getting increasingly slow. Hopefully this will provide a good alternative.
Dachande663
karstetter
Posted 8:02 AM 3/1/08
Just a warning. If you go to their purchase page I don't believe it has a secure connection.
karstetter
karstetter
Posted 10:27 AM 3/1/08
@ethomaz:
In FireFox the padlock also says:
Warning: Contains unauthenticated content.
The application does look useful though.
karstetter
bsingh6777
Posted 10:19 AM 3/1/08
It doesn't seem to be recognizing lot of applications. I tried with my Java IDE, SQL Client & Version Manager and it didn't pick them up.
bsingh6777
zakora
Posted 9:53 AM 3/1/08
Slife doesn't recognize other apps for me too (even Flock).
zakora
fluffyelmo
Posted 11:14 AM 3/1/08
@karstetter: The page itself is secure, but it loads the logo and css files using http instead of https which is why you're seeing a warning.
fluffyelmo
hermitlife
Posted 11:58 AM 3/1/08
@KARSTETTER: The site gives a security warning because it's referencing graphical elements that reside in a non https location.
hermitlife
siliconkibou
Posted 2:16 PM 3/1/08
It's worth noting that their Windows version is both A. in beta form, and B. for Windows XP.
Vista support is not explicitly provided, though I also would like to be able to use this, problem-free, on Vista.
siliconkibou
ethomaz
Posted 8:39 AM 4/1/08
@karstetter: We just fixed the non-secure issue with the purchase page. It should be fine now.
@siliconkibou: You are correct. We will be testing Slife more under Vista in the coming weeks.
ethomaz