Bill Gates once said:
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Ok, now that I’ve fulfilled the vaguely related quote requirement for a blog post we can get down to business.
We’ve all been there, you start a report running, a file downloading or a program installing and you know it’s going to take a while to finish. Some systems have the functionality to send you an email once finished but the vast majority of them don’t plus it’s quite limited.
So what you end up doing is keep looking/walking back over to the screen to check how far it’s got and getting disappointed how far it’s not moved, like the proverbial watched kettle.
To alleviate this first world problem, I’ve built a quick widget to watch the screen for me and to alert me if it changes. Read More