Barry Smith aka Arturus over at Torgamer.co.uk has made no less than four different, awesome Flash counters, counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic. And he is handing them out for free!
The US version
Here is his announcement over on Torgamer:
To mark the release dates being set for EU & US I have constructed a countdown timer that launches from the desktops for Windows and Mac.
You can access them at the following URL: http://www.torgamer.co.uk/downloads/
There us an EU folder and a US folder with the mac and windows files in them. Report all issues to admin @ torgamer DOT co DOT uk
Enjoy people!
EU Countdown
Here are the links to each download:
These counters go on your desktop but Barry tells me he is working on counters for website use and expects them to be available within a week:
Right, I have as yet only released the desktop ones. I WILL be releasing the flash files for websites to use this week, will be in three versions EU, US, and both combined. I want to see about making them easier to include in peoples sites.
I really like the idea of a combined one and I would add that he can put me down for one of those but these counters will also be completely free to download and use.
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For those of you who have trouble reading calendars, I guess.
All kidding aside, 8.1mb for a resource-hogging Flash app that could easily have been a 400k widget instead? Pass.
Hahaha, true enough. Look at it this way though. If your computer cant handle a 8.1mb Flash app, then I dought it will run TOR.
*chuckle*
I would have preferred a widget… Its kinda cute, I guess. In a “Holy hell its Khem Val and he just woke up without any makeup on” sort of way.
People can actually have this on their desktop and not go completely mad ? I would see that every morning and die a little inside because it doesnt say 0
. Best way for me to wait for ToR is to not think about tor. (except when i check torwars for new news.
I think its a wonderfully fun idea. It’s meant to invoke a smile, not madness… I mean really, what’s more maddening… watching the clock tick down, or not knowing the release date?
Wow, this is exactly what I wanted!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!
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