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Use Your Car Alarm As A Home Security Panic Button
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Unless you’re currently on the wrong side of a Colombian drug lord, the kind of criminals who would break into your house are of the opportunistic variety. Use your car alarm to send them running More »
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Alarm Clock By Tarry91 Manages Multiple Timers
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Alarm Clock by Tarry91 is a compact (if lengthily named) portable alarm manager and timer. Packed with features, it can help you with everything from tea brewing to early rising.Alarms and timers can be extremely useful, in more ways than one might expect. Alarm Clock by Tarry91 supports an unlimited number of events, and allows for every-x-minutes, daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly alarms to be set. Various actions can be set up to occur upon the alarm event, including MP3 or video playback, opening a specified file, and system shutdown, hibernation, or logging off the current user. The application resides in the system tray and has a quick event menu, accessible by right clicking on the tray icon, to add countdowns in commonly used blocks of time like fifteen and thirty minutes. Alarm Clock by Tarry91 is freeware, Windows only. Alarm Clock by Tarry91 [via Elite Freeware] More »
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Wake Up Like Iron Man
12:40AM Kevin Purdy | Like the idea of waking up to the current time, date, and weather, รก la Tony Stark in Iron Man? Sleep.FM offers a browser-based wake-up you can set for multiple alarms. It requires your computer to be on and online, of course; WakeUpOnStandby can make that happen. [via Make Use Of] More »
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College Alarm Clock Wakes You Up in Time for Class Today
1:30AM Gina Trapani | Windows only: Desktop application College Alarm Clock wakes you up on time for class (or an irregular work schedule) seven days a week. Set a custom alarm time on a per day basis, Sunday through Saturday, and set the sound to just a plain beep, or choose a song from your computer’s digital music library. College Alarm Clock can skip any day of the week, and you can save an alarm schedule to easily switch between holiday break and the new semester of wakeup times. College Alarm Clock is a free download for Windows only. College Alarm Clock [via Cybernet] More »
iSnooze Turns iTunes into a Must-Wake-Up Alarm
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: iSnooze provides the same kind of iTunes-as-alarm-clock functionality as the Mac-only Alarm Clock 2, but lets you get a lot more specific about your wake-up parameters. Wake up to a certain playlist on certain days at particular times, have it pause as soon as you touch something on your computer, gradually increase the volume until you finally wake up—it’s your best friend or worst enemy, depending on how important it is that you get up and going in the morning. iSnooze is a free download for Windows systems only. iSnooze More »
How Do You Make Sure You Wake Up?
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Even the most motivated morning people among us can wake up seemingly unable to rise from bed and tackle the day. Over at the UbuntuCat blog, the author notes that moving his alarm clock to another room, along with having an impatient cat, have (almost) fixed his multi-snooze tendencies. We’ve offered up some alarm clock hacks and morning motivation tips before, but let’s hear it from those who have escape the pull of “Just Five More Minutes,” and those still fighting to become a functional morning person: How do you make sure you get up in the morning? How do you prevent your groggy self from making decisions your working persona will regret? Share your tips, philosophies and wake-up war stories in the comments. The art of the snooze [UbuntuCat] More »
Use an Alarm Clock to Keep Organising Tasks on Track
1:40AM Kevin Purdy | You’ve cleared out some time, you’re itching to tackle that cluttered and messy closet, and … 20 minutes later, you’re reminiscing over some old photos you found. Staying on track while tackling organisation projects can be tough, as your ideas and findings pull you in many directions at once. Real Simple’s suggestion: Put an alarm clock in the room where you’re working and set the buzzer to go off 10 minutes after you start. When it beeps, assess what you’ve done and then hit the snooze button. When it goes off again, see if you’ve accomplished more in the next chunk of time. Keep hitting the snooze button until you’re finished with your project. People who can hyper-focus will find this method really annoying and won’t want to use it. But, if your mind frequently wanders, this could be a great tool for you. More »
