Comments on: New TaskBlaze Freeware Update: Precise – Outlook Compatible Tracking beta 7.5

By: George

George — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:01 +0000

Cool tool – another good one to check out is Tudumo, I have been using to organise my time, and am really loving it.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:05:50 +0000

Thomas,

I am booked pretty solid right now so don’t expect an update immediately. But I believe another reader found a workaround for the notebook display issue that doesn’t affect your other display prefs…I’ll see if I can find that for you and post it.

By: Thomas Ho

Thomas Ho — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:05:21 +0000

Brad, any update on this display issue? I want to introduce TaskBlaze to my team, but the UI of B75 is much worse than that of B50 on my notebook. The program info which should be at the bottom of the window is covering the Categories field.
To make thing more confusing, the font size on my notebook is 96 dpi…
Thank you very much.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:57:07 +0000

Hey, that’s a great idea and should be pretty simple to get rolling. Let me see what I can do

By: Brian Samson

Brian Samson — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:50:32 +0000

Brad, it’s working great so far. One simple functional request … how do you feel about a tooltip that appears when the mouse moves over the “Stop” button that displays the named task that the system is monitoring? It’s a great way to remind one what one is supposed to be working on.

Just a thought.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:05:37 +0000

Yes, I bet it is..but you might be able to compensate by going back to settings and instead of choosing the settings tab, choose the appearance tab and then use the dropdown to make fonts “large” or “extra large”

I think I see how to fix it.

By: Brian Samson

Brian Samson — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:28:12 +0000

You got it! (Damn, that’s a small font on 1400×1050!) I’m hoping that you’ll be able to find a better solution for a future release, but at least I can start piloting the tool. Thanks again, Brad.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:08:06 +0000

AHA! I think I’ve found it. I’ll have to remedy it, but if you want to use it for the time being,

1. right click on your desktop, choose properties.
2. choose the settings tab
3. Choose the advanced button
4. set your font size to 96 dpi
5. reboot

Like I said, I’ll be searching for a solution to this in the meantime

By: Brian Samson

Brian Samson — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:20:09 +0000

Interesting. The laptop’s (Dell 600m) resolution is indeed being run at 1400×1050, which is the recommended resolution for this LCD panel. The desktop font size is set to Normal. I’ve tried switching the screen size to 1024×768 with no effect on the result (other than a fuzzy screen). I also switched the font size from normal to large with no effect on the result.

I’ll keep playing around with some of the settings, but I’m still at a loss.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:08:40 +0000

Brian,

What I’ve been able to track this back to, but unable to reproduce here on any of my machines is a screen resolution and font display issue.

So far it has only happened on Laptops and LCD screens where the user has a very high resolution set and cutom (large) font settings. For instance going up around 1900 x and above on the resolution and using large fonts and customizing the font size to 120 dpi under your graphics card can cause this.

I am looking into a solution, but you might try tweaking your fonts in the meantime to see if that helps.

Is what I describe above consistent with your setup or is there a difference?