Chrometa
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Chrometa is a product of the software company Chrometa LLC, which is based in Sacramento, California
. It is a Microsoft Windows
and Mac OS X
application designed for professionals that captures PC-based work time without user data entry. The product can also track time away from the PC through automated and manual timers and reminders.
, who absolutely hated reconciling his time. When he found out his friend wasn't alone, their conversation quickly evolved into an idea to ease this pain by harnessing timestamp
data captured by the Operating System. This approach is generally referred to as time capture
.
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
. It is a Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
application designed for professionals that captures PC-based work time without user data entry. The product can also track time away from the PC through automated and manual timers and reminders.
Company
Chrometa was founded by Brett Owens and Chihab Bahhadi in 2007. The original inspiration for the product came from a close friend of Brett Owens—an attorneyAttorney at law
An attorney at law in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court on the retainer of clients. Alternative terms include counselor and lawyer...
, who absolutely hated reconciling his time. When he found out his friend wasn't alone, their conversation quickly evolved into an idea to ease this pain by harnessing timestamp
Timestamp
A timestamp is a sequence of characters, denoting the date or time at which a certain event occurred. A timestamp is the time at which an event is recorded by a computer, not the time of the event itself...
data captured by the Operating System. This approach is generally referred to as time capture
Time capture
Time capture is the concept of making sense of time-related data based on timestamps generated by system software. Software that run on PCs and other digital devices rely on internal software clocks to generate timestamps. In turn, these timestamps serve as the basis for representing when an event...
.