Dali Clock

Dali Clock is a digital clock. When a digit changes, it "melts" into its new shape. The date is displayed when the mouse is pressed. The window can be made transparent, and can do funky psychedelic color cycling.

It is available for X11, MacOS X, Palm WebOS, and PalmOS Classic. There is no Windows version, so don't ask.

MacOS X:	DaliClock-230.dmg (607K) This program requires MacOS 10.4.0 ("Tiger") or newer (PPC or Intel). There are three variants included here: a normal application; a screen saver; and a Dashboard widget.
Palm WebOS:	DaliClock-229.ipk (37K) Dali Clock is not currently available in Palm's App Catalog, but hopefully it will be some day. Until then, you can install it via the Preware application for WebOS, which is an installer for many third-party packages. Follow their installation instructions. Basically: first you download and run the WebOS Quick Install Java program; then you use that to install the Preware installer application; then you run Preware on your Pre, and select Dali Clock from the list of available applications (it is under "Applications/Clocks"). Alternately, if you have the WebOS development kit installed, you can just install it from the command line over USB by doing: palm-install -d usb daliclock-229.ipk
PalmOS Classic:	DaliClock-230.prc (32K) Transfer this to your PDA or phone, and go.
Unix, Linux, etc:	Your vendor probably provides a binary distribution for your platform. If not, compile it from the source code below.

All Platforms:

xdaliclock-2.30.tar.gz (1MB) This contains the source code for all four platforms: there are subdirectories for each (X11, OSX, Palm, WebOS). For X11, run "configure" and "make". For OSX, an XCode 2.4 project file is included ("make" will run XCode). To compile the PalmOS Classic version, you'll need a cross-compiler; see the README.

This is a very old program! The original version was written some time in the early 1980s by Steve Capps for the Xerox Alto workstation. In 1984, he ported it to the original Macintosh 128K.

In 1991, I (Jamie Zawinski) re-implemented it from scratch for X Windows on Unix. It's been fairly popular there ever since.

In 1999, I ported the X11 version to PalmOS. The entertaining thing about this is that the Palm Pilot that I had at the time was an only slightly more powerful machine than the Mac 128K: they had almost the same CPU, and almost the same sized screen! The Palm was about 4x faster, though, and had 16x as much memory. And it weighed a whole lot less.

In 2005, I ported the X11 version to MacOS X, bringing this story full circle.

And most recently, in 2009, I ported it to Palm WebOS.

(Not pictured: Palm Pre running WebOS 1.0.3.)