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Have you ever wondered how much of your time at work is actually spent working? This app can help you find out.

Productivity Timer is a utility that detects whether or not you’re using a productive application (e.g. word processor, spreadsheet, IDE) and keeps track of the time you spend on it. It’s currently in beta, so there may still be some errors.

To try it out, you’ll need the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or greater (latest version is 4.0). I suggest you get it first before installing ProdTimer!

How to use:

1. Enter the productive window names in the “Productive Windows” textbox, one line per app. This can be the application name, website name, IM username… any text in the window title bar.
2. Turn on the timer.
3. Click Hide to hide the main window (you can open it later by double-clicking the clock icon on the system tray).
4. The “Productive Time” dialog will show the total time spent on productive activities. To pause the timer, simply click this dialog to make it active (provided it isn’t listed in “Productive Windows”).

Of course, this system is rather easy to cheat… but then that’s just deceiving yourself!
The most important thing is still self-motivation!

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Future versions will include these features, among others:

• Menu to choose productive apps from all active processes
• Customizable colors
• Statistics (productive time percentage, most used app, etc.)
• Reminder when you’ve been unproductive for a certain amount of time
• Productivity history graph
• Binaries for other operating systems

Application icon made by MDGraphs.

This app is inspired by two things: those motivational posters you see about everywhere, and Lionel Messi’s awesome performance against Arsenal in April 2010. It’s, well, a motivational poster with a moving picture. The video is streamed from YouTube. Both the title and small text are customizable, but an overly long paragraph will ruin the display. This will be fixed in future versions.

If you interested, you’re free to use this on your own site, blog, forum, etc.

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In case you don’t know yet, I used to be crazy and daring (I still am now, but to a lesser degree). For example, have you ever climbed to a car roof from the back seat while said car is going at about 40 kph? I have. Twice.

Little incidents like that eventually prompted my buddies to joke that I should make a TV show about myself. I thought it would be cool too, but having too much to do all the time prevented the idea from being realized. Then in 2007, the media communities in the campus hatched a plan to create something called Campus Channel (link may be down), where they pooled their resources to create some kind of integrated media. Being a member of the radio club, I took the opportunity, and with a little (big) help from my friends (Radix, Nophe, Ami, Dedy, and Shana, among others), Arya BL Show was born. (BTW, BL is my nickname, but that’s another story.)

The idea was to make a talk show discussing current issues in ITB, Indonesia, and the world, with a bit of comedy sneaked in, combined with my so-called “signature style”. Hence the pilot episode, scheduled for November 2007, was themed around Heroes’ Day, which is on November 10 in Indonesia.

Arya BL Show, Episode: Heroism was released in mid-November to moderate reception.

This episode was the only one ever produced, since after that I decided to focus on my undergrad thesis and the other guys also moved on to other things. But it was fun.

Posted on: 20 May, 2010

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‘Cause we Are Champs by ~petewarrior on deviantART

This one dates back to my freshman year in college. There was an initiation period where one of our assignments was to compose a song about our department and student union. I took up the task, and this was what resulted.

The funny part is when the song was first sung for the seniors. I wasn’t feeling quite well and didn’t attend. Well, it turned out the song was supposed to be used as a marching cadence, and being a rock number in spirit, my song’s beat was too irregular for that. My fellow freshmen was chewed out hard by the playing-bully seniors, and I, the one most responsible, wasn’t even there. Fortunately, my friend Karlisa, who is now happily married with children and living in Japan, also had a song ready, and hers became the official song of the 2003 freshmen. Whew.

But one can’t let an awesome, rocking song lay abandoned and forgotten, right? That’s where Dimbir came in. A multi-instrumentalist, he wrote up a whole four-piece arrangement for it. With the song now having awesome lyrics and a rocking musical arrangement, I put in the next piece of greatness: the music video, as seen below.

In my final year, I vowed to perform the song at my department’s graduation party. And I did it, with my labmates alongside me on the stage. The circle is complete.

Posted on: 25 December, 2009

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