SniperPoint Desktop

Before technology was developed as it now, we used to check the time looking at our wristwatch, or see how the weather is for the next days from newspapers or TV. Plus, organizing our tasks and priorities required a lot of time and a pen and paper.

Now, we have various programs who do this for us, making it easier to remember assignments and upcoming meetings. This is where, SniperPoint Desktop comes to offer an efficient method of checking the time and daily weather, search for a specific item on the Internet, as well as view the most important news and manage your day by day notes.

The program is wrapped in a clean and self-explanatory interface consisting of a vertical desktop panel that stores all the available widgets, such as a clock, weather, news, organizer, and a small slideshow. The image player can't be personalized by selecting a particular location, which would've been a nice so you can enjoy your favorite picture collection. You can search the Internet without having to log-on to any specific search engine.

The clock automatically syncs with the computer time, however there is no option to customize it with different styles or change the date and time format. The weather gizmo can be modified to correspond with your location, by right-clicking on it and accessing the configuration menu.

From there, the tool lets you choose the weather units, the update interval, along with the option to set the city you are in, for a more accurate forecast. For the news panel, you can select the display language, refresh interval and the time zone.

Clicking on the organizer widget the app brings up the reminder window, which can be displayed as a time grid, day, week, month or year view. For entering a new appointment, you have to input the subject, location, choose the label (e.g. personal, business, important, vacation), as well as select the start and end time.

If the record is essential for your work, it's possible to set a reminder. The app lets you add quick notes, which are shown in the same panel, for you to easily remember what you have to do. Optional settings can be enabled, like running the program at startup, indexation service priority, and start it like Windows toolbar.

The bottom line is that SniperPoint Desktop is a handy and minimalistic utility designed to offer a simple way of checking the time and weather, read important news, as well as keep track of urgent events and daily tasks.