by Joop Blokker

Iam happy to report that Mokum Mail LITE - the FREEWARE version - has been received very well. An increasing number of the LITE version users have joined The MokumCafe at Yahoo and followed the 10 easy and free lessons at the Mokum Mail Academy to get used to the look & feel of the program.

When I started writing this 4M, I saw that time had slipped through our fingers... This is the 26th issue of the Monthly Mokum Mail Magazine. For more than 2 years now my sidekicks Karen Shirron and Becky Darsey and your's truly have tinkered this E-zine, sending you tips, tricks and the latest news about "Mokie", the nickname many users have lovingly given the program. Thanks Karen and Becky, I never could have done this on my own!

Sooo... it's about TIME to celebrate! In the past months I programmed a Clock for your PC desktop. It's a talking alarm clock with some extra's.

The EXTRA'S include a timer, a jukebox, you can listen to Audio Books and you can adjust your internal PC clock by calling an atomic clock server, such as the atomic clock servers operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States. Your current computer time is compared with the current atomic time and an adjustment is made to keep your local computer up-to-date with the exact time now.

MMClock is 100% FREEWARE, it's fun and useful. Share it with a friend, send it to your Mom and your grandson, give it to the vicar and the sheriff or send it to Billy Gates! Download, unzip and run the installation program. Install in any folder you want, the default is C:\MMClock\....

So... why is my MMClock better than the Vista Clock? Fasten your seat-belts...

- When you click on the clock face, you will see this Settings window, which is self-explanatory. At the top you find buttons to go to the Mokum Mail site and for setting the colors of the clock face, the hours/minutes hands, the seconds hand and the text.

- Next you find an option to use the AM/PM or 24H format and a checkbox to have the clock always appear 'on top' of all other windows.

- The Alarm Sound is by default the happy sound of a rooster, but you can select any sound file to wake you up. The alarm sound plays one minute or until you click once somewhere on the clock face.

- Set the jukebox to any folder where you have many midi and/or wav files. If you need more music... I have packed almost 1,700 music files in one large ZIP file that you can download HERE

- The MP3 Audio Book box should point to the folder where you have your MP3 Audio Book files, if any. If you have more than one file in that folder, they will be 'played' in sequence automatically. You can stop the reading at any moment and resume at the same point later. If you don't have any Audio Books then Google up 'FREE AUDIO BOOKS' -- there is a wealth of books on the internet.

- Finally... you can set the time on your internal PC clock equal to an atom clock. Because an atom clock site can be off-line for maintenance, the program searches a number of sites until a functioning site is found. The NIST-Time program is a freeware program created by Dave Roberts c.s.

Last but not least, I want to thank the Mokum Mail Beta Testers Crew who helped me in debugging the MMClock program. As always, they sent a lot of wishes/ideas/complaints/whinings... I guess now the MMClock is more THEIR program than mine...

-- Group hug for yall, Beta Guys 'n Dolls!

You will find this explanation as a Help file in the program folder.