Product Review: Thinking Man Software - D4
One of the screaming and cursing annoyance of my very first laptop was that it refused to keep accurate time. It was always late. And I do mean always. I had the battery changed. That didn’t help. I even had it sent back to the manufacturer. That didn’t help. What did help was a freeware program from Thinking Man Software:
“Simply put, Dimension 4 v5.0 is the fastest and easiest way to synchronize your PC’s clock for Windows-based operating systems. Once Dimension 4 is installed, you’ll most likely forget that it’s even running. It’s that automatic.”
link: Dimension 4 - from Thinking Man Software
This is a fabulous freeware program. It takes little of the resources and runs in the background. There is really nothing to do, as it runs by your preferences. I have the program on both my desktop and on my notebook computer. It loads on start-up and I don’t have to think about it.
You may think that the incorrect time is a small annoyance that you can handle. Well, so did one of my ‘geek’ friends, until he could not make his encryption work. The authentication for the encryption program was based on the correct current time. If there was a discrepancy in the time, the encryption codes would not work. It took him a good weekend, plus a few days, to find out what the problem was.
Chalk one up for the ‘rarely-late-and-most-likely-early’ side.
Catherine Forsythe
Tags: encryption, freeware, time, time synchronization
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January 28th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Catherine,
What does this program do that the setting in Windows XP to sync your PC’s time with an Internet clock does not? This is just a question and I hope you don’t interpret this in any way to be confrontational or challenging to the capabilities of the program.
Glenn Baugh