Days Left / Tageszähler

I written this thing for one purpose: help my mother get rid of her excel-file which calculated the days left until her retirement for her. I thought hey, I'm a programmer, I can do better. Since then it is running in my Dock and telling me how many days left until I have to hand over my diploma thesis. That day was now, so finally I've got the time again to blog and, moreover, release Days Left 1.0.2.

So what does it do? Simple. It sits in your dock, telling you how many days are left to a certain due date. That due date can be set in its preference window. Thanks to Stéphane Sudre's WBCalendarControl you can enter it nicely. If you want the same in the menu, you can use the Countdown menu extra, which can be found on Britta's excellent super OS X menubar items list. However Days Left only counts full days, and switches at exactly 00:00 hours. (It does so with a timer to not waste usefull CPU cycles, and updates on wake and sleep). I put this little thing right next to iCal and let it show me the Days Left until my next most important day. Use it for whatever purposes you want! It's free... take it!

P.S.: Für alle die das jetzt nicht lesen konnten, keine Sorge! Meine Mutter mag Deutsch auch lieber als Englisch, deswegen ist das Ding lokalisiert und heißt dann Tageszähler. Wie bei jeder guten Mac OS X Anwendung ist die Lokalisierung mit im Programm, also einfach auf das Bild oder den Link oben klicken und freuen.