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Watcha! Hack ver 1.01Watcha! Hack is a HackMaster Extension. It checks and counts your application launching. Installing and activating it on HackMaster, Watcha! Hack begins to watch over application launchings. When it catches a launching, it renews its own database made for your reference.
| Note: | You need the HackMaster to use Watcha! Hack. |
I've confirmed that Watcha! Hack works on the devices below.
I think it should work on other devices/OSs, but if you find Watcha! Hack doesn't work in your environment, please report to me.
As well as a normal application, Watcha! Hack can be installed with HotSync. After that, activate it on HackMaster's control panel.
If you need to reinstall Watcha! Hack, you have to deactivate and delete Watcha! Hack before reinstall new one. Watcha! Hack is listed on "Memory" or other database-managing software as below. Delete them all.
After install and activating, Watcha! Hack starts to watch launchings and keep its database automatically. This database can be browsed by Watch-Ya! viewer.
Watcha! Hack also has one more function. Watcha! can switch applications by accessing its own database.
When Watcha! Hack detects user-defined Magic Stroke, it switches back to the previously used application. And Watcha! Hack has a more powerful function furthermore. It is called Watcha! List.
Watcha! Hack recorded the number of times of launching and the last launched time for each applications. From this database, Watcha! Hack generates Watcha! List. Watcha! List is also called up by Magic Stroke. You can launch any one of the listed applications by simply tapping upon it.
Watcha! has two kind of Watcha! Lists. The one lists 10 apps launched most recently(Last 10 apps), and the other lists the 10 most-launched apps(10 Most-used).
By default, when you invoke Watcha! List, the Last 10 apps list comes up first. If you want to access the another list, make a tap outside of the list-window to get it. If you make one more tap outside at the second list, Watcha! List vanishes and you can go back to the original application.
You can choose which list comes up first on the control panel of Watcha! Hack(at HackMaster application). Magic Strokes are also set from the control panel.
You can change the default setting of Watcha!
Hack from HackMaster. After the changes,
you can set them by exiting with OK button. Exiting with Cancel, the changes are discarded. Below is an
instruction of the control panel.
Watcha! Hack is designed for use with Watch-Ya! viewer. For some detail about Watch-Ya! viewer, read Watch-Ya.html .
Watcha! Hack itself cannot display its database. To see the data, you can(must) launch Watch-Ya! viewer. Watch-Ya! shows the data of app-launching as a table.
Count bit is one of the data managed by Watcha! Hack. When this bit is off, Watcha! Hack ignores the launch of this application. Nor it doesn't count up the number of time of launch.
This bit is always "On" by default, but you can turn it off by using Watch-Ya! viewer.(Of course, you can also turn egg on again.) See Watch-Ya.html.
The application with its count bit off will be ignored Watcha! Hack. This means not only it is not counted, but also you cannot access it with either of the switching functions. When Magic Stroke is detected, Watcha! Hack checks the Count bit of the target application. If it is off, Watcha! Hack does not switch the apps. And the apps with the bit off, are never shown on the Watcha! List.
This bit may be useful, because it can make "the Other Launcher type Apps." These Launchers themselves are launched so often compared with normal apps, and it's not so meaningful to launch them with Watcha! Hack or count the number of times they are launched.
Watcha! Hack is No warranty software. I wish I've made thorough debug, but who knows? Or, it may happens that Watcha! Hack conflicts with some other (and unknown-for-me) software's/OS/devices. I shall take No responsibility. Please use Watcha! Hack or other products of mine, **AT YOUR OWN RISK**.
If you find bugs or any point to be improved, I will appreciate your information. Please send an E-mail to me at:
Watcha! Hack and Watch-Ya! viewer( and Launcha! DA) should be packed as one package.
Any distribution are welcome, but please do it with this whole package(includes documents). And please remember to inform me in advance.
Any other problem, inform me at palmtech@mbh.nifty.com
Enjoy them, and happy Piloting!