Sand Clock

Sand Clock is a simple-to-use gadget based on the Yahoo! Widget Engine, that displays the time with the use of two hourglasses, which can be placed on any area of the screen.

This cross-platform gadget comes packed with several configuration settings. You can select the frame style of the hourglasses from different presets (wood, metal steel, brass and chrome), pick the color, and adjust the level of transparency. What’s more, you can change the size of the glass pretty easily, thanks to its built-in slider, and enable chime sound notifications at every hour, 15 or 30 minutes.

Other features can be accessed via Yahoo! Widget Engine’s settings dialog. You can make the program ignore mouse actions and prevent the dragging of the widget to a part of the desktop.

Sand Clock doesn’t offer many dedicated parameters of its own, and this could be good news only for rookies who don’t want to spend a lot of time figuring out their functions.

The gadget doesn’t eat up CPU and memory, so it lets users focus solely on their work without affecting the overall performance of the computer or interfering with other programs’ functionality. It offers excellent image quality and no errors showed up during our testing.

All things considered, Sand Clock offers a simple software solution for helping users measure time by using two hourglasses. It doesn’t take a lot of time to install it, and can be configured by all types of users, regardless of their level of experience.