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ancechu1 replied on July 03, 2008 11:30 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

I'm in the same situation. I work on Linux using Netbeans, Thinking Rock and SQuirreLSQLClient, all this applications appears as java-lang-thread.

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winkler1 replied on March 10, 2008 18:50 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

On a more general tip - when do you go deep (window title/contents), vs application name? It seems like you only go deep for web browsers. Time spent in Windows Explorer could be anything.. (tough problems here)

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Adrian Smith replied on March 05, 2008 09:15 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

I had the very same problem until I cam across Launch4j (http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/). It's a great tool and means that you can give all you java applications a custom process name, i.e. no more java.exe/javaw.exe.

The thing to remember is to tick the "Custom process name" tickbox on the first screen (I use version 2.1.5).

Here's the file I used to create jedit.exe...

<launch4jconfig>
<dontwrapjar>false</dontwrapjar>
<headertype>0</headertype>
<jar>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar</jar>
<outfile>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.exe</outfile>
<errtitle></errtitle>
<jarargs></jarargs>
<chdir></chdir>
<customprocname>true</customprocname>
<stayalive>false</stayalive>
<icon>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.ico</icon>
<jre>
<path>C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04</path>
<minversion></minversion>
<maxversion></maxversion>
<initialheapsize>64</initialheapsize>
<maxheapsize>192</maxheapsize>
<args></args>
</jre>
</launch4jconfig>

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Tony, an employee of RescueTime, replied on September 26, 2007 17:17 to the question "Does RescueTime stop logging when my computer is inactive?":

Oh, and if you wanted to you could use the handy "delete" functionality in RescueTime-- you can delete your iTunes data for the offending day... Won't make your data entirely accurate, but it'll certainly be more accurate than 8 hours of nocturnal iTunes usage!

Joe, an employee of RescueTime, replied on September 26, 2007 16:46 to the question "Does RescueTime stop logging when my computer is inactive?":

It does looks like the iTunes update notification caused this issue. For some reason RT was not seeing the machine as "idle" while this updater notification was up. What's more, the updater seemed to refresh every 30 minutes, so RT tracked iTunes as being used pretty much continuously all night long.

I'm going to do a bit of data research to see if this has happened in the past with iTunes updates. Hopefully we can get a fix in place soon.

Thanks!

Joe, an employee of RescueTime, replied on September 26, 2007 16:20 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?":

This is something I have been looking into for a while. I have added it to the issues list and we will work towards having a solution for this...

Tony, an employee of RescueTime, replied on September 26, 2007 14:55 to the question "Does RescueTime stop logging when my computer is inactive?":

That is a bug! RescueTIme is supposed to be smart about detecting idle time. We'll look into it. Thanks for the heads up.

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