Version 6-1210
This desktop utility only runs correctly with INTERNET EXPLORER 5 or higher, at any screen resolution. Important: you must allow active code to execute in your PC in menu Tools>Internet options>Advanced options, just as with any other dynamic Internet page or any program you want to execute.
The unloaded file inicioen.zip should be extracted to an empty folder. No other files will never be created or modified in your PC except these ones in this folder.
The starting file is _INICIOEN.hta, a fully reliable MS HTML application, with code that you can check for correct procedures, just as any other html file.
You can access to the options moving the mouse pointer over the elements at the left of the program and clicking to activate it, or also clicking over the image at the right with the left or right buttons. You can also access each option with the quick access keys (Alt+key). With Alt+O -letter O- you can view the general menu list, with all the options. Following these links you can know and operate with all the possibilities and utilities of the program. Some additional comments follows.
For new records and modifications, the program will point you to the plain text files _DATA.txt (access: Alt+G, for Agenda editing and program default custom options), _ADDRESS.txt (Alt+. -dot- or Alt+5 -as freestanding program-, Address Book and Data base), _QUOTES.txt (access: Alt+D, for Quotes) and _PHOTOS.txt (access: Alt+W, for images viewer). The modification instructions are included in the respective files. You must, after modifications in these files are done and saved, update INICIO with the F5 key. This will also cancel the temporary program modifications made in the present session; or you can wait for the next program start. Note: if the quick access keys do not open their corresponding .txt type archives with your default text editor, you should open them directly with Alt+,(comma) from your INICIO folder.
Your own files can replace all the images and sound default files. See _data.txt for instructions.
There are three alarms, with persistent graphic notices, which will display in front of any other open application, and with additional optional sounds. These alarms are the clock alarm, the countdown to zero alarm and the agenda reminder alarm. See _data.txt for this last alarm.
You can set the quantity of days to show in the agenda for the next days listing (Alt+8) in 'agendadays' in the same file of the previous paragraph.
The phases of the moon are calculated from UTC-time (GMT); therefore the moon phase might be up to one day wrong according to local calendars. You can adjust it in the _Data.txt file (Alt+, -comma-) in 'moonadjust'.
Quotes will display consecutively one per day, the first on January 1st until the total number of quotes, beginning again with the first quote.
Due to computer processing time saving, the clocks may show an offset of up to -15 seconds maximum in total with respect to the computer clock, because they are updated in that time gap, except the chronometer, which shows the exact time elapsed to the second when stopped. If you wish more time control, and with more alarms and possibilities, visit JRM Chrono-Alarm. As long as a message is in the center of the window apparently the clocks stop, but they are updated with the actual elapsed time a few seconds after the message is closed.
You can change the default program colors with Customize colors (Alt+F). Also, you can customize further the program (fonts, letter size, etc) with the file Styles.css, but you should know how to work with Style Sheets (CSS). However, with some intuition you can deduce how to do it. As with the above-mentioned files, you can also open this plain text file with Notepad or a similar program.
Remember to keep always an updated backup copy, in separate folder or external media, of the INICIO files that you could have modified (_data.txt, _address.txt, _quotes.txt, _photos.txt and _notes.txt). This is important in case you update INICIO to a new version to let you keep your own notations and modifications, that otherwise could be replaced automatically with the new version. This is also true for your images and sound files with the same name as in the original version. You can quickly access your 'INICIO' files for backup copies through the keyboard keys Alt+, (Alt+comma), and then copy one file (Ctrl+C) and paste it in the same folder (Ctrl+V), thus the duplicate file will be 'Copy of...'.
It is convenient to check from time to time for a new version of INICIO with the button at the end of the present page. See your present program version at the beginning of this page (Ctrl+home). You only have to extract the files to the same folder that you are using now. Please consider the previous paragraph.
If you wish, you can run this program automatically at computer start including it in the Windows Start key: right button click on _INICIOEN.hta file, select Quick access, cut this new access (Ctrl+X), right button on the Start key of Windows > Open > Programs, Start and paste it (Ctrl+V).
This program is of free distribution (Freeware). If you have found some bug or wish to make any suggestion or improvement, please, I will much appreciate that you let me know to try to include it in a new version and thus improve the program for all people. Use the buttons at the end of this page to contact me.
Even only due to the reason of the open language used in this program, I cannot be made responsible at all of any consequence derived from its usage.
A Spanish language version is available. See the button at the end of this page.
All I wish is that this utility could be of actual utility to you, and if it is so, I would like to know it with some words from you, with a web site link or any other curios thing that you might have found and specially liked in the Internet (no more than 400Kb if sent with e-mail).
The author will truly appreciate your help to improve my English in this work. If you are a native English speaker and find any wrong expressions in the program or in this page, please let me know.
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INICIO Spanish Version:
José Rodríguez Montoro
Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) Spain EU
December 2006