Comments on: Wakoopa gets scary

By: Cale

Cale — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:15:16 +0000

Clarification straight from the source! Thanks.

By: Wouter

Wouter — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:26:43 +0000

It indeed is fun to see where all your time is going. Some of our members got some shocking awareness as to how many time they are actually spending in games like World of Warcraft or LOTR

Wakoopa does indeed track only the “active” programs. An active program can be defined as the window with focus, while the system is not in “idle” mode. So if you leave Textpad open, but your system is idle (ie no input for xx seconds), then it doesn’t track active time. There are some downsides to this as well, but we’re constantly working to get it as accurate as possible.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:01:08 +0000

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pmIqWbLfPHWQ1Xi8Lw2iTEw

Loses something on Google Docs, but you get the idea. Biggio looks pretty good when you compare his offensive numbers to guys he played against. And I suppose it’s not entirely fair to compare him to Nap Lajoie and Rogers Hornsby.

By: Cale

Cale — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:46:01 +0000

In my case it definitely tracks what I’m using. I leave iTunes open 24/7 so other folks on the network can listen to my library, however, iTunes hardly shows much use time at all. Excellent use of Excel, btw.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:07:19 +0000

It looks like it tracks what’s open rather than what you’re actually using, doesn’t it? Because I don’t really ever close Firefox. At work, I rarely close Textpad and Visual Studio. But today, for example, I have written absolutely no code in VS despite having it open since 7:45 this morning. Instead, I’ve been using Excel to try and determine if Craig Biggio is really a first ballot Hall of Famer like Jayson Stark says he is (Verdict: Hall of Famer, probably. First ballot, only if all the voters get some good drugs that day).