Software Highlight: GoneIn60s
June 12, 2008So you were working on a 500-word blog entry about the rise and fall of communism and its effect on global warming, right? Your ideas were so vivid that words just flowed naturally from your mind to the keyboard. Must be because of the separate browser window that showed hot damn scantily-clad photos of Olivia Munn in it. Awesome.
Then you instinctively felt two holes burning on your back. Turns out your boss, who sprung out of nowhere and somehow managed to ninjically appear right behind your back, has been staring at your screen for minutes. You did what can only be described as a reflex action: you X’d out your blog window (instead of that of Olivia Munn) with your near complete article unsaved. Zomgrite?
Ninja boss is watching you work
Fortunately, thanks to a special freeware called Gonein60s, there’s a chance to recover recently-closed applications within a specified timeframe (60 seconds, by default). When running in the background, this software just hides the window until it completely closes after 60 seconds. This means if you accidentally shut down an app by mistake, you can still recover it by double-clicking the GoneIn60s system tray icon. What’s more, you won’t have to go through a rigorous setup process to run this application. Just save the exe file anywhere in your hard drive, then double-click to activvate it. You can even alter the settings to any number of seconds you prefer. Apparently, not only stealing cars can be achieved in 60 seconds time.
Double-click on the blue bathroom-tiles exe file to activate GoneIn60s. Right: Recovering a closed app from the system tray
Settings options
You can download GoneIn60s from here.
Previous Comments
Windows won’t even notice it is running. Memory usage is approximately 3,000K in the task manager.
Posted by steeliotronic at June 12, 2008, 7:12 pmThanks. I’ll give it a go then.
Posted by CM at June 12, 2008, 9:06 pmHOLY CHICKEN SHIT this is awesome! Initial reaction though, might change over time. Still, love the minimal effect on my laptop functions.
Posted by CM at June 12, 2008, 9:09 pmHigh five!
I'’l be honest with you though, it has its own set of bugs (which you’ll find out soon enough) and limitations (such as failure to recover windows that were right-clicked then closed from the taskbar). But the overall performance is super.
Posted by steeliotronic at June 12, 2008, 9:12 pmI use another freeware called WordWeb (yeah, I don’t magically sling words straight out of my noggin) and some outlook messages that either go blank at some point while they’re open with the G60 exe on, or re-open up after I close those two programs. I found myself closing G60 lots of times just to take care of it. I’d love to find out a way to work around this bug because I need this program. Might try those settings thingy later for the ignore functions.
Posted by CM at June 13, 2008, 7:29 amI will not close my Precious window even if it costs me my job! Now please excuse me, need to look for a new job.
Posted by Baddie at June 13, 2008, 3:13 pmAdd a comment
How heavy is this on my memory?
Posted by CM at June 12, 2008, 7:05 pm