Samurize
| Developer(s) | Adam Coulthard Lee Wilson |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.64.3
/ February 5, 2007 |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Widgets |
| License | Free for non-commercial use |
| Website | samurize |
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Serious Samurize (or simply Samurize) was a freeware system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Microsoft Windows.[1][2]
The core of Samurize was the desktop client that displayed PC statistics (similar to a widget or gadget) anywhere on the screen. There was also a taskbar client, a clock client, a server, and a screensaver. The client's main purpose was to display information about the computer, such as CPU usage, available RAM/HD space, network conditions, uptime, etc.. It could also be extended by using VBScript, JScript, Perl, Python, Ruby scripts and DLL plugins, which provided virtually unlimited possibilities. There were scripts and plugins which could get weather reports, news headlines, music controllers, etc.
Samurize included a WYSIWYG config editor used to create the configs. A "config" consisted of a collection of "meters", and was saved into an INI file in the "configs" folder of the Samurize installation path. "Configs" could be packed to be shared with other users by using an included tool.
History
Work on Samurize started early in 2002. The first iteration of Samurize was version 0.63c, at which point work began on Serious Samurize, which was released at version 0.80a, breaking compatibility with older configurations.
The earliest predecessor of Samurize was NMeter, created in 2000. NMeter was followed by CureInfo in 2001 and in March 2002 Samurize development began. The development proceeded rapidly with almost one new version each month until version 1.0 was published in November 2003. Then the development process slowed somewhat but new versions were regularly released.
In April 2015, it was announced "that the Samurize project is officially over."[3]
References
- ↑ Larkin, Erik (2008-10-28). "Samurize". PC World. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ↑ Muchmore, Michael. "Samurize 0.85". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ↑ "Samurize News". Samurize.com. 2015-04-17. Archived from the original on 2018-01-06. Retrieved 2018-01-06. Unknown parameter
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External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-06-06)
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