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Oh, something for y’all who like Christmas: My Christmas Countdown Utility<\/a>. It’s a small little program for Windows-based PCs that (as you would expect from the title) counts down the days until Christmas. It also has a built-in reminder that you can set, for simple “alarm” functionality. You can even add a note to your alarm.<\/p>\n

It runs in the system tray and consumes only a few KB of memory. Not much to look at, but hey, I threw it together in about a half an hour (most of the time spent looking for the cool icons it uses! Try clicking on them!).<\/p>\n

If you’re feeling adventurous, try finding the secret features I added to it. Good luck!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: This program is no longer available. (Hey, it was old and shoddy to begin with.) But don’t despair – a new version is available<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, something for y’all who like Christmas: My Christmas Countdown Utility<\/a>. It’s a small little program for Windows-based PCs that (as you would expect from the title) counts down the days until Christmas. It also has a built-in reminder that you can set, for simple “alarm” functionality. You can even add a note to your alarm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","tag-programs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-19","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":954,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/27\/a-christmas-countdown-timer\/","url_meta":{"origin":71,"position":0},"title":"A Christmas Countdown Timer","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, that's right. 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