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Recommended windows alarm software?
August 3, 2005 12:37 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

Can you recommend alarm/timer software to run on windows?

I would particularly like to find a program with complicated alarm cycles - for example, I might want to stop and stretch for 5 minutes every half hour, so an alternating 5 and 25 minute alarm would be ideal. Even better would be the choice of both audio (beep) and visual (screen flash) alarm settings.
posted by betterton to computers & internet (6 comments total)
If you are comfortable with the command prompt, I recommend using the built-in AT and NET SEND tools. That will accomplish everything you want. E.g.
at 15:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F net send myusername "Stretch!"
This will pop up an alert dialog on your screen with a chime.
posted by randomstriker at 1:32 PM on August 3, 2005


Hmm...it seems the built-in Scheduled Tasks application also provides a nice graphical interface to the AT service. Under Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools...assuming Windows XP Professional (not sure about Home edition).
posted by randomstriker at 1:40 PM on August 3, 2005


i'm a happy user of Kirby Alarm. It's free and quite complex. He makes you "register" but it's just for him to know how many people use it, pretty low-risk I think.

Runs in the system tray. I've had it pop up alerts and run programs but playing a sound is another option I haven't tried.
posted by jacobsee at 2:23 PM on August 3, 2005


The Timers page on the 43 Folders wiki has a list of them for Windows, other OSs and meatspace.
posted by furtive at 6:41 PM on August 3, 2005


Konfabulator has some times, countdowns, etc.
posted by BradNelson at 9:18 PM on August 3, 2005


I use DerBrowserTimer, a clean little Firefox extension. Each browser window creates a new instance of the widget, so you could have one window set to alert you every half hour, with another window set to go off every half hour offset by 5 minutes.

The drawback would be that if you close a window, you just lost an alarm.
posted by catachresoid at 4:09 PM on August 9, 2005


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