Add elevator music to Windows progress bars!

Instant Elevator Music is a fun little application that sits on the system tray and automatically starts playing cozy elevator music whenever a progress bar appears on the screen.

progressbar

Instant Elevator Music works with a large number of programs, including:

Windows Explorer: while copying/moving/deleting files
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: while waiting for downloads to finish
Microsoft Office and Visual Studio: while waiting for programs to load
7-Zip: while waiting for archives to extract
TeraCopy: while waiting for files to copy/move
Audacity: while waiting for music files to open/save
Eclipse: while waiting for it to load, complete a build or refresh the workspace
VMWare: while waiting for a virtual machine to resume
Virtual PC: also while waiting for a virtual machine to resume
Most installers

By default, the program comes with only one music but you can choose to play any music you want.

One useful addition to this application is a counter that tells you how much time you waited for the progress bar to complete.

elevator-music

Instant Elevator Music came a bit too late – it would have been fun in the days of yore when we ran 333 MHz machines and spent hours watching the progress bar crawl. It’s still fun though.

[via Download Squad]

Comments

How to Record CPU and Memory Usage Over Time in Windows?

Whenever the computer is lagging or some application is taking too long to respond, we usually fire up task manager and look under the Performance tab or under Processes to check on processor utilization or the amount of free memory available. The task manager is ideal for real-time analysis of CPU and memory utilization. It even displays a short history of CPU utilization in the form of a graph. You get a small time-window, about 30 seconds or so, depending on how large the viewing area is.

How to Schedule Changes to Your Facebook Page Cover Photo

Facebook’s current layout, the so called Timeline, features a prominent, large cover photo that some people are using in a lot of different creative ways. Timeline is also available for Facebook Pages that people can use to promote their website or business or event. Although you can change the cover photo as often as you like, it’s meant to be static – something which you design and leave it for at least a few weeks or months like a redesigned website. However, there are times when you may want to change the cover photo frequently and periodically to match event dates or some special promotion that you are running or plan to run. So, here is how you can do that.

Diagram 101: Different Types of Diagrams and When To Use Them

Diagrams are a great way to visualize information and convey meaning. The problem is that there’s too many different types of diagrams, so it can be hard to know which ones you should use in any given situation. To help you out, we’ve created this diagram that lays out the 7 most common types of diagrams and when they’re best used:

Instant Fundas

Search This Blog