• Support of Russian language
• Possibility to switch between English/Russian

Improved:

• Twitter authentification method has been changed to safer – password and username are not stored any more.

Fixed:

• Post to twitter

Known issues:

• Crashes when run via Mono on Linux/MacOS during dialogs opening.

With Russian language support it becomes possible to translate it to other languages too with little efforts. E.g. if we need X hours to implement Russian, we will need only X/10 hours to implement French, German, Japan, Ukrainian, etc.

LazyCure 4.0 technical details

LazyCure project has been moved to .NET 4.0 framework so it’ll be easier to support in future and also it should work slightly faster. Recommended IDE – any versions of VS2010 (express edition is enough). The is an issue with mono – it does not support fully 4.0 version of Windows.Forms – that’s why it’s crushing due to “Bug 648403 – SplitContainer does not implement ISupportInitialize“.

For working with twitter, Twitterizer library is used now. The twitter authentication method was moved to OAuth – that’s saver method that was used before, because your password (and even login) to twitter is not stored locally, so could NOT be stolen by virus. And you also can allow/deny access to your twitter account from LazyCure any time via native Twitter web interface.

So let’s go and download LazyCure 4.0 for free!

Write me in Skype about your desire.

You can find by id ‘Scorpibear;. After that we discuss the details and your level of participation.

What is desired: C# .NET 4.0 + NUnit knowledge and Test-Driven Development skills.

Now I’m working on LazyCure 4.0 release, which could be localized to other languages. I am sure that Russian will be among them – and if you would like to see LazyCure in other languages – skype me. Or at least leave a comment here. I will be open with you – I know only Russian, English and Belorussian. So if you would like to see LazyCure in French, Ukrainian or Japanese – I need your help!;)

You are writing email to customer and this is specified in Now… box of LazyCure. Suddenly you have a call from your boss. You press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12, have a call, after finishing press Ctrl+F12, type “talk with boss<Enter>”. After that, in time log, you can see 2 additional records with correct begin & end time:

13:33 writing email to customer
13:37 talk with boss

So Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12 is a hotkey for switching the activity and it works on the system level, so LazyCure could be minimized at the moment. By the way, in Options you have possibility to change hotkey on other suitable for you combination (e.g. if this one is already used by other software or if it is convenient for you to use other hotkey).

LazyCure 3.8 could be downloaded from Download page. See also Full List of LazyCure Features.

What does it mean for the end user? It means that LazyCure was tested thoroughly and was found absolutely clean; therefore, it can be installed with no concern by any computer user.

New features:

• Subtasks. Select menu Show->Task Manager and create a tree of projects/tasks/tags/areas which you want to use for grouping activities during analyzing your time logs.
• Possibility to customize hot-key. Now you can use not only Ctrl+F12 but any imaginary combination of keys in order to activate LazyCure window and fix activity switch. Works only in Windows, but if you know how to do it in other OS, I’m appreciate your comment. In order to customize hot-key, go to menu Options and press button ‘…’ under ‘Hot key to activate:’ text.
• Split activities by comma (‘,’). This is the feature which I love very much, because it helps me to save a lot of seconds and make time logging process more enjoying. When I forgot or didn’t have an ability to mark activity switch, I specify all activities in one ‘Now you..’ text field via comma and press ‘Done!’ After that the magic happens – each activity appears in time log separately with time equally spitted up. It is not too much accurate, but if I don’t remember actual time of switch activities (or even if I was doing all of them simultaneously), it is accurate enough. And more important – it is very fast.
• Possibility to disable option to switch time log at midnight. Automatic switch time log at midnight is a useful feature, if you practice continuous time logging, like Russian scientist Lyubishchev. But if you log only the current day and it ends after midnight, it is useful to turn off automatic switch at midnight in order to keep all activities in one place. So now we have an option.
• Possibility to close TimeLog Editor, Summary, Task Manager by ESC. All for the sake of speed .
• Possibility to copy data via context menu from Time Log Editor and Activities Summary. Possibility to copy data via Ctrl+C and paste, e.g. in Excel, was always in LazyCure, but nobody knew about it. Now it is possible to do via context menu + small additional improvements of data representation in clipboard.
• Possibility to rename activities on Activities Summary. The feature I was dream about for years. Record activity with mistake, record the same activity without mistake, then go to activities summary, rename misprinted activity – and see the magic.

+ fixes of the following bugs:

• An exception when invalid time is entered on Efficiency tab.
• An exception when activity is longer than 64 symbols on mouse over tray icon.
• Post to twitter is not working.

Quality of LazyCure 3.7 release is proved by 303 green unit tests.

Enjoy!

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• LazyCure is working under Linux with Mono framework.
• There is possibility to customize left click on tray icon – open LazyCure form or display list of resent activities.
• Possibility to manage tasks via context menu, F2 hot key for task rename.
• Info about current activity is shown when cursor is placed on tray icon.

There are also some improvements comparing with 3.5 version:

• Switch activity on log off is made an optional feature, turned off by default.
• Last activity logging when computer is shutting down. If you select in dialog box to log latest activity, main form will be active and when you enter activity name and press ‘Done!’, computer shutdowning continues.

Also couple of bugs were fixed:

• At midnight new time log is created but is not switched.
• An exception when linking activity with not selected task.
• Efficiency is not auto-calculated when linked task is changed.

The great difference between previous version is that it is working under Mono framework and that is why available under Linux (tested under Ubuntu, really works!) and MacOS (not tested, but should work. If you have possibility to test this, please, drop a note in comments). Of course it is still working under .NET Framework under Windows.

LazyCure is available at Free Download page.