SpbTime Help

Analog Clock Screen

To open this screen, activate clock mode and tap on . In analog clock mode you can see:

- The clock area. Just a clock, like any other analog clock. Tap the screen to switch between toolbar and full screen modes. If you tap-and-hold on the screen then you will see a context menu, from which you can create a new alarm, select whether to show alarms on the screen, or go to the options dialog. How to Set an Alarm.
  Hint: If you create a new alarm this way, the alarm time will correspond to the hour hand position you tap. After that you can customize the alarm time more precisely.
- If you have already set one or more alarms, they appear as little icons around the clock on their time positions. Tap on an icon to modify the alarm settings. Or just drag it to a new position!
- Turn the mode button into the state to switch to the timer mode.
- Tap to enter the options dialog.
- Tap to show time in digital mode.
- Tap to enter the world time mode.

Hint: to quickly show or hide the alarm icons tap-and-hold on the screen and select or unselect the Show Alarms item in the context menu.

Note: even if alarm icons are hidden, they will play when their time comes.

See also
Spb Time Help
Digital Clock Screen
World Time Screen

Adding a City

In this dialog you can add a city to the city list. If you want to select a city from the USA, you can also do it using the ZIP code of the city, or narrow the list down by specifying the state.

To add a custom city, using blank, please select Custom -> New Custom City from the menu.

To add a custom city, using a copy of the selected city, please select Custom -> Copy From Chosen City from the menu.

See also
Spb Time Help
Favourites List Dialog
Copy a Custom City

Adding a Custom City

In this dialog you can add a custom location by specifying its name, timezone, and coordinates.

- Name: Provide the custom city name
- Timezone: Provide the custom city timezone (select a standard time for your city region from the list)
- Latitude: Provide the geographical latitude of the location you add.
- Longitude: Provide the geographical longitude of the location you add.

Tap ok when finished. Your new location will be added to the city list.

See also
Spb Time Help

Alarm options

In the alarm options dialog you can customize the following:

- Days of week: Select a day (days) of week, in which the alarm will be activated. The selected days are black-colored. This option is available for scheduled alarms only. If you select one time alarm then the alarm day will be automatically selected.
- Alarm time: Here you can edit the alarm time.
- Name: If you want you can name the alarm here.
- Disabled: Check mark to deactivate the alarm.
- Kind:
  - Snooze: If selected, the snooze button will be proposed when the alarm time has been reached. Tapping on the snooze button will reset the alarm to ring again after the time interval you specify. You can provide the snooze time as well.
  - Auto snooze: If selected, then the alarm will be snoozed automatically if it gets no response after playing time. You can provide the snooze time as well.
  - Auto dismiss: If selected, the alarm will be automatically dismissed after alarm playing time is over. You can set the alarm playing time from the repeat option below.
- Repeat:
  - Number of repeats: Set how many times you want the alarm to be repeated. Otherwise you can customize the Time to play setting.
  - Time to play: Set the alarm sound duration. Just provide the time interval to play the alarm sound.
- Sound: Select a sound file to be played as the alarm signal and tap on the Play button to try it. You can select the Custom... variant to look for a sound file in a specific folder.
- Volume: Select the sound volume level. It can be Normal (the currently chosen system sound volume, Maximum (max possible sound volume) orAscending (from silent to maximum).
- Vibrate: Select to make the device vibrate when the alarm time has been reached.

From the Tools menu you can change the default settings of the alarm options dialog. Select your preferred alarm settings and tap the Set As Default menu item.

See also
Spb Time Help

How to Set an Alarm.

On the analog clock screen:
Tap-and-hold on the desired time position of the clock. Then select New Alarm from the context menu. You will see a window appeared. Tap and for hours and minutes to set the alarm time more precisely.

On the digital clock screen:
Tap-and-hold on the desired time position on the time rule in the right part of the screen. Then select New Alarm from the context menu. You will see a window appeared. Tap and for hours and minutes to set the alarm time more precisely.

After specifying the alarm time you can customize other alarm settings. Tap on and you will see the alarm options dialog. Alarm options

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Spb Time Help

Alarms in Spb Time

You can set an unlimited number of alarms. To add a new alarm, tap-and-hold on the screen in the clock mode. Then select either New Alarm or New One Time Alarm from the context menu. The alarm time will depend on the point you tapped the screen. In the analog clock mode the point you tapped corresponds to the hour hand position of the alarm time; in the digital clock mode you can move the alarm icon along the 24 hours rule. As you do so, you will see a little window, in which you will be able to set the time more precisely. Tap and to customize the alarm time.

- Tap to save changes.
- Tap to delete the alarm.
- Tap to close this window without saving changes.
- Tap to customize the alarm options.

See also
Spb Time Help

Digital Clock Screen

To open this screen, activate the clock mode and tap on . In this mode you can see:

- The clock area. Just a digital clock, like any other digital clock. Tap the screen to switch between the toolbar mode and the full screen mode. If you tap-and-hold on the screen then you will see a context menu, from which you can create a new alarm, select, whether to show alarms, calendar, and seconds on screen, or go to clock options dialog. How to Set an Alarm.
- The calendar shows the current date. To show or hide the calendar on the digital clock screen, tap-and-hold and select or unselect Show Calendar.
- If you have already set one or more alarms, they appear as such little icons on the right side of the screen, along the rule, the highest position for 00:00 and the lowest position for 23:59. Tap on such an icon to modify the alarm settings.
  Hint: If you wish to create a new alarm, tap-and-hold somewhere on or near this rule; the new alarm time will correspond to the position you tap. Then you will be able to customize the alarm time more precisely.
- Turn the mode button into the state to switch to the timer mode.
- Tap to enter the options dialog.
- Tap to open the analog clock screen.
- Tap to enter the world time mode.

Hint: to quickly show or hide the alarm icons and the time rule, tap-and-hold and select or unselect Show Alarms from the context menu.

Note: even if alarm icons are hidden, they will play when their time comes.

See also
Spb Time Help
Analog Clock Screen
World Time Screen

Stopwatch Lap Time List

In this dialog you can see the list of fixed lap times. In the left column you can see the Duration of time between two neighboring laps. In the right column there is a list of absolute lap times (every time is counted from the very start). You can save this list in a separate file by tapping on Save.

To clear the list of fixed time values, tap on Clear.

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Spb Time Help

Lap Time List

In this dialog you can see the list of fixed lap times. In the left column there are time intervals between two neighboring lap times, and in the right column you can see the absolute lap time values (from the start).

You can save this list in a separate file by tapping Save. To clear this list, tap Clear.

See also
Spb Time Help

Spb Time Help

Clock Screens
Analog Clock Screen
Digital Clock Screen
World Time Screen

Timer and Stopwatch Screens
Stopwatch Screen
Countdown Timer Screen
Time Counter Screen

Alarms
Alarms in Spb Time
How to Set an Alarm.

Options
Skin Options Dialog
Alarm Options Dialog
Timer Options
City Options Dialog
Favourites List Dialog
Copy a Custom City
Today Options Dialog
Screen Saver Options
Button Options Dialog
Alarm options
Countdown Timer Options

Alarm Options Dialog

In this dialog you can see a check mark list of all created alarms. To delete an alarm, tap-and-hold on it and select Remove from its context menu. To edit an alarm, just tap on it.

- Select New Alarm from the Tools context menu to create a new alarm and customize its settings.
- Select New One Time Alarm from the Tools context menu to create a new one time alarm and customize its settings.

See also
Alarms in Spb Time
How to Set an Alarm.

Button Options Dialog

In this dialog you can assign hardware buttons to many tools of Spb Time application.

- Screen: Select one of the Spb Time internal screens. You will see the list of available actions that you can assign below.
- Action: The list of all actions that you can assign for the specified screen. Next to it you will see the assigned hardware button.
- Button: The list of hardware buttons that you can choose from to assign.

To assign a button to an action, select it in the list and then select a desired button from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen.

You can assign the same button to different actions on different screens.

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Spb Time Help

City Options Dialog

In this dialog you can select four cities to observe. To change one, tap on a city and select from the drop-down menu. Tap on the Favorites list button to open the favorite list dialog.

See also
Spb Time Help
Favourites List Dialog
Adding a City
Copy a Custom City

Copy a Custom City

In this dialog you may add a custom city by changing the settings of some other one from the existing list of cities. Here the city you've chosen from the list appears with its Timezone and geographical coordinates. You may change any of the fields according to your custom city settings.

See also
Spb Time Help
Favourites List Dialog
Adding a City

Favourites List Dialog

The city list contains all cities available for adding. To delete a city from this list, select it and tap Delete. To add a new one, just tap on Add... and select a country and a city where proposed.

If you select a city that you added by yourself, you can modify its settings by tapping on Edit.

See also
Spb Time Help
add_city
Copy a Custom City

Screen Saver Options

In this dialog you can customize the Spb Time screen saver behavior. The screen saver works even if the Spb Time application is not open. The screen saver feature is available only on Windows Mobile 2003 or later.

- Enable screen saver: From this option you can disable/enable the screen saver (enabled by default).
- External power only: Select when you want the screen saver to appear. The screen saver can be displayed only when the device is connected to external power or always.
- Show seconds: Select if you want to see the time in seconds of the analog and digital clock.
- Show alarms: Select to show the active alarms on the screen saver.
- Enable slide show: Select to create an image slide show for your screen saver.
- Timeout: Select the time interval, after which the idle Pocket PC turns into the screen saver mode.
- Mode: Select the desired appearance of the screen saver. Select one of clock modes (Analog clock, Digital clock, or World Clocks).
- Slide show button:Here you can specify a certain folder with pictures for the slide show mode. You can also configure the slide show effects.
- Exceptions: You can disable the screen saver in some particular cases, when certain programs are running. Just tap on this button to customize the list of programs that will never be interrupted by the screen saver.

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Spb Time Help

Skin Options Dialog

In this dialog you can change the skin that configures the program interface. Select a desired skin and tap ok.

You can uninstall an undesirable skin from your Pocket PC. To do so, select a skin and tap on Remove. You cannot remove only the current and the Default skins. You can download and install skins at no cost from the Spb Software House web site (http://
www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/
products/time/).

See also
Spb Time Help

Timer Options

- No sleep on timers: If selected, your Pocket PC will not be turned into the sleep mode when at least one timer/stopwatch is running. The running timer/stopwatch screen in this case must be active.
- Keep backlight on timers: If selected, the backlight will not be turned off when at least one timer is running. The running timer/stopwatch screen in this case must be active.

Note: To conserve battery power, avoid using the timer stopwatch for long periods of activity.

See also
Spb Time Help

Today Options Dialog

This dialog allows you to customize Spb Time Today Plug-in. There're three options you may change.

First, you may select a preferable view mode, which might be either Digital or Analog. To set it please choose the 'Digital clock' option or the 'Analog clock' one in the Views dialog on the top. If the 'Analog clock' is selected then you're offered to choose a skin for the Today Plugin. Please select it in the Skins dialog on the right.

Then you may specify how many cities to display. Please select the preferable number, up to 4, in the Cities count dialog.

And finally, there's an opportunity to hide the Spb Time icon. By default, it is visible and appears in the upper left corner of the Today Plugin. If you do not want it to be shown please check the Hide Icon box.

Each time you change a setting, the example of your today plugin changes as well. So all your customizations are displayed at once.

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Spb Time Help

Save Lap Time List

In this dialog you are proposed to provide the desired file name and destination. All the lap times will be saved in this file.

See also
Spb Time Help

Screen Saver Effects

Here you can make settings for screen saver effects.

- Folder: Select the source folder of the images that will be used in the slide show
- Opacity: Select the image opacity value
- Delay: Select the image timeout before changing it with the next image in the slide show
- Fitting: Select how an image will be placed on the screen.
  Fit: The image will be resized to fit the screen by at least one parameter (width or height)
  Fill: The image will be resized to fit the screen by both parameters.
  Stretch: The image will be resized to fit the screen completely.
- Alignment: Select how an image will be placed on the screen:
  Center: The center of the image will be placed in the center of the screen
  Low: The image will be placed at the top-left corner of the screen
  High: The image will be placed at the bottom-right corner of the screen
- Effect: Select how an image will be drawn over the previous one from the drop-down list. The effect list include None (Select if you want no effects to be applied), Blur, Horizontal line, Vertical line, and all effects (Random effect will be applied for every image redrawing)
- Files sequence: Select the image selecting order either forward or shuffle.

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Spb Time Help

Screen Saver Exceptions

If you don't want some of your programs to be interrupted with the screen saver, you can add these programs to the list of exceptions. The list of exceptions is customized in this dialog.

To add a program to this list, tap on Add. You will be proposed to select a program installed on your Pocket PC device.

To delete a program from this list, just select it and tap on Delete.

Select programs to never be turned into the screen saver mode when running. To add a program tap on Add, to remove one, select it and tap on Remove.

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Spb Time Help

Stopwatch Screen

This screen represents a stopwatch. Among the stopwatch features there are:

- Accuracy. Spb Time uses the Pocket PC built-in time reading algorithm. It allows you to measure time intervals within 0.001 sec.
- Unlimited number of lap times (intermediate stopwatch values).
- Possibility to save the lap time list.

On this screen:

- The running time.
- Tap to start up the stopwatch.
- Tap to temporarily stop the stopwatch. This action adds one more lap time to the list (shown red). You can tap again to continue from the moment you stopped it.
- Tap to add a lap time to the list.
- Tap to zero up the stopwatch and clear up the list of lap times
- The lap time list on this screen shows the last five fixed lap times. The lap time values obtained after tapping on are shown red. Tap to view the complete lap time list. You will also be able to clear or save this list in a separate file in a dialog that appears after tapping this button.
- Turn the mode button into the state to switch to the clock mode.
- Tap to enter the options dialog.
- Tap to open the timer screen.
- Tap to open the time counter screen.

See also
Spb Time Help
Countdown Timer Screen
Time Counter Screen

Time Counter Screen

This screen contains five independent time counters that can work simultaneously.

On each time counter:

- The running time.
- Tap to start up the time counter.
- Tap to temporarily stop the time counter. This action adds one more lap time to the list (shown red). You can tap again to continue from the moment you stopped the time counter.
- Tap to fix a lap time.
- Tap to zero up the time counter and clear up the list of lap times.
- Tap to go to the lap time dialog where you will be able to clear the lap time list or save it in a file.

On the screen:

- Turn the mode button into the state to switch to the clock mode.
- Tap to enter the options dialog.
- Tap to open the stopwatch screen.
- Tap to open the timer screen.

See also
Spb Time Help
Stopwatch Screen
Countdown Timer Screen

Countdown Timer Options

In this dialog you can adjust the timer options:

- Change the name of the timer.
- Change the duration or interval of the timer.
- Change the kind of the timer to either normal or auto restart.
- Select the number of repeats or the time to play.
- Select the sound of the alarm then tap the Play button to preview the alarm sound.
- Select the volume type and enable/disable the vibrate option.

See also
Spb Time Help

Countdown Timer Screen

The countdown timer gives you five timers that are preset to 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 30 minutes each. Any number of such timers can be run simultaneously.

On each timer:

- The running time.
- Tap to start up the timer.
- Tap to temporarily stop the timer. You can tap again to continue from the moment you stopped it.
- Tap to zero up the timer (i.e. to turn its value to the predefined value, e.g. to 30 seconds).
- Tap to customize the timer options (stop the timer first).

On the screen:

- Turn the mode button into the state to switch to the clock mode.
- Tap to enter the options dialog.
- Tap to open the stopwatch screen.
- Tap to open the time counter screen.

Hint: To quickly edit the time that must be counted down by the timer, tap on the time box and select a time interval from the list. You can choose the Custom... variant to provide your own time interval, which will be also included into this list.

See also
Spb Time Help
Countdown Timer Options
Timer Options
Stopwatch Screen
Time Counter Screen

World Time Screen

To open this screen, activate the clock mode and tap . In this mode you can see:

- The world map. Tap somewhere on this map to show the time in a city nearest to the point you tap. You can also see the light and dark zones, which outline the current day and night zones on the Earth (you can disable this behavior). Tap on to switch between the full screen mode and the toolbar mode. In the full screen mode you can see the world map with a higher zoom ratio and select cities more precisely. If you tap-and-hold on the world map screen, you will be able to choose whether to show cities (as red dots), whether to show the night and day zones (not available in the full screen mode), and if you hit a city, you will also be able to place it into a desired monitor from this menu.
- when you tap on the world map to show the location time, you can put this time into the time pane. To do so, tap in the selected time pane. Another way to add any city to the time pane is to tap on and select a city from the drop-down menu. The city's name, time and date will be placed into it and will be monitored constantly. You can have up to four cities monitored simultaneously. You can also tap on a non-empty monitoring box to display the city it corresponds to on the map.
- Turn the mode button into the state to switch to the timer mode.
- Tap to enter the options dialog.
- Tap to show time with an analog clock.
- Tap to show time in digital mode.

See also
Spb Time Help
Analog Clock Screen
Digital Clock Screen