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Beats for Windows

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Beats displays Swatch Internet Time as a desktop widget. It faithfully recreates the Swatch HQ clock, showing time in 'beats' (1/1000th of a day), free from time zones. This widget offers a unique, aesthetic timekeeping experience.

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  • Pros

    • Displays Swatch Internet Time on desktop.
    • Recreates Swatch HQ building clock design.
    • Shows time without conventional time zones.
    • Counts time in beats (1/1000th of a day).
    • Offers seven customizable display color options.

  • Cons

    • Noon and midnight differ from conventional beats.
    • Not the most functional time system.
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Beats for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000
Additional Requirements
Windows 2000/XP, Yahoo Widgets Engine
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Total Downloads
1,965
Downloads Last Week
1
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Developer’s Description

By Jared Foster
View a swatch Internet time on your desktop.

Beats isn't just another swatch Internet time widget; this one is special. Get this: it's an almost perfect recreation of the clock on the Swatch HQ building in Biel, Switzerland. For those unfamiliar, Internet time has no time zones and time is counted in beats, where each beat is 1/1000th of a day. Of course that means everyone's noon and midnight are at a different (weird) number of beats, but that's okay.

Swatch can make up whatever crazy time system they want and still be pretty awesome. The display can be changed to any of seven fabulous colors, so even if it's not the most functional time system, at least it's aesthetic.

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