FadeTop is a free, portable and extremely simple break reminder software that fades your desktop into a bluish color at regular intervals.
At minute 0, 15, 30 and 45 of each hour, the fader gets activated. (Fader won't become active unless the program has been running for at least 15 minutes.)
If you want to know what the fading looks like, just start FadeTop and click the program icon in system tray.
To quit, right click the icon and choose
Exit from the shortcut menu.
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Updates (May 21, 2011 UTC):
FadeTop v2.5 or later supports below options (configurable via the Options dialog):
1)
auto fade interval: interval between alarms (1..60 in minutes)
2)
fade duration: interval between alarms (1..300 in seconds)
3)
max opacity: the maximum opacity for the overlay color (1..100 in percentage)
3)
overlay color: color for fading the desktop
4)
text color: color for time digits
5)
text size: font size for the time digits (10..900 in pixels)
6) block fader when a full-screen program is running
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Website:http://www.fadetop.comFadeTop in Action: (animated GIF)
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