Description:
The TimeCube displays a small rotating cube, displaying the current date and time, directly on your desktop. OpenGL is used for quite some special effects: specular highlights, realtime bumpmapping und cube map reflections.

The cube is partially transparent, so you can see the window contents behind it (sometimes you have to look closely though). It can be dragged around on the desktop with the left mouse button.

Use the right mouse button to get a menu where you can set preferences as well as install it to start when windows starts if you want. Closing the cube is also done that way.

Requirements: You need Windows 2000 or better (XP, Vista) and an OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card. If you get error messages regarding shaders you should try to update your graphics driver first. The time cube has 8 different shaders compiled into it, and the best looking one that works on your graphics card will be chosen.

Installation: Download the .zip file and extract the exe file. Run the executable. It does not change anything on your system, it will only set some registry values to store its settings.

Uninstall: Remove the downloaded zip file and the exe file, whereever you extracted it.

Download History:
Version: 1.01 Updated: Thu, 24-Sep-2008
bugfix: cube could stop rotating/updating after some time
bugfix: error in pixel shader could make the cube flicker
increased pixel shader quality

Version: 1.02 Updated: Thu, 25-Sep-2008
bugfix: fixed redraw problems on vista on some machines

Version: 1.10 Updated: Sun, 16-Nov-2008
feature: date is now the long or short date (choose by right clicking on the cube) as defined in the windows regional settings
feature: the shader implements parallax mapping now instead of simple sobel bumpmapping
feature: the lighting follows the mouse movement