The money-shredding alarm clock was a controversial idea, in part because shredding physical cash is technically illegal. The SnūzNLūz is a high-tech take on the same idea — if you hit the snooze button, money is automatically extracted from your bank account and given as a donation to an organisation you despise. More »
Uh-oh, another iPhone clock bug seems to have reared its head. Some iPhone owners in Western Australia are reporting on Twitter that their clocks have jumped forward an hour, reflecting what seems to be a bug in the daylight saving implementation. More »
If you’ve ever looked at the analogue clock on your wall and thought yourself “Needs more LEDs…” then this hack is for you. Build a digital/analogue hybrid clock for swanky animated time keeping. More »
Windows only: Free application TimeLeft is a Swiss Army knife of time-related utilities, including reminders, countdowns, timers, stopwatches, auction watches, and more. If you want to keep track of something timely, TimeLeft can help. More »
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]Windows only: Synchronise your computer’s clock with numerous time servers around the world using freeware application DS Clock. On its first run, it will dock itself on the top right hand corner of your desktop, but you can customise its look and feel as well as its position quite easily. As an added bonus, DS Clock comes with a stopwatch so that you can track the time it takes to perform certain tasks online. Not bad. DS Clock is a freeware application for all flavours of Windows.
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