Is there a stopwatch ??

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Is there a stopwatch ??

I'm kind of shocked at having so much difficulty finding such a basic app.
Mac's come with a calculator , a dictionary and even chess , so where's the stopwatch/timer ?
easy star I hope 🙂

all the latest of Leopard except the old Tiger eMac, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 7, 2009 6:27 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 7, 2009 6:47 PM in response to Bobsax

terminal usage: time cat (and control c to stop it.)

Message was edited by: doug pennington

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Nov 7, 2009 6:49 PM in response to Bobsax

I'm shocked that you haven't tried to google what you want. Try "stopwatch for mac" and see what you get. Also check versiontracker.com with the same search.

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Bobsax Author

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Nov 7, 2009 7:48 PM in response to doug pennington

I'm not really terminal savvy

I searched spotlight and obviously got no results. I also searched the downloads section at the Apple site with no results which is strange because I would think something would be available but since it's such a basic app I guess nobody would want to pay for it.

It comes with iPods! Why not put it in the computers?

I also searched here in the Discussion section and got nothing with "Stopwatch" in the title so hopefully someone will recommend a good one. Possibly they'll be helping out more then just one user.

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Nov 7, 2009 8:29 PM in response to Bobsax

Ok, Let's try this route(& MacUpdate has a lot of info for timers & swatches). Open Script Editor/File/New and paste this:


 tell application "Terminal"
 
 activate
 
 do script "time cat"
 
end tell

Then in top menu of that page: hit Compile, record, stop and run(let them all do their task before doing each task). And save menu as Application to Desktop(or wherever). Once that's done , double click that app and terminal will start running your stopwatch/timer until you stop it with control c. And "real" is what you want. Then type exit and close window. Now what I just typed was the long way to do what I answered earlier, but as a lovely parting gift you get a desktop App......

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Dave Stowe

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Nov 7, 2009 9:02 PM in response to Bobsax

I had just downloaded this today....

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32134/mactimer

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Bobsax Author

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Nov 21, 2009 4:26 PM in response to doug pennington

doug pennington wrote:
Ok, Let's try this route(& MacUpdate has a lot of info for timers & swatches). Open Script Editor/File/New and paste this:
 tell application "Terminal"
 activate
 do script "time cat"
end tell
Then in top menu of that page: hit Compile, record, stop and run(let them all do their task before doing each task). And save menu as Application to Desktop(or wherever). Once that's done , double click that app and terminal will start running your stopwatch/timer until you stop it with control c. And "real" is what you want. Then type exit and close window. Now what I just typed was the long way to do what I answered earlier, but as a lovely parting gift you get a desktop App......

Doug
Thank you but I'll pass. I can see disaster written all over that wall. I've crashed a few computers fooling around with things I didn't understand.

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