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- From: folta@cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Multiple Alarm Clock sought
- Message-ID: <63820@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 00:09:28 GMT
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- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- >>I am looking for an alarm-clock program that allows one to set simultaneous
- >>alarms for several different times during the day, with a (possibly)
- >>different sound associated with each. (An obvious usage would be to set an
- >>alarm for each hour on the hour, with the associated sound speaking the
- >>time, but that's not what I need it for.) Does such a thing exist? I
- >>can't seem to find one in the archives. Part of a not-too-expensive
- >>commercial package would be OK.
-
- Easy Alarms is a very nice, inexpensive Calendar package. Its alarms are
- extremely flexible, with a wide range of recurring options ranging from
- every N seconds to every N months, including every Nth <day of the week> of
- each month, etc.. You can select sounds/messages for each alarm, or you
- can have a script go off. The script can play sounds, make choices and
- display different messages, including messages/decisions that depend on
- the time/date/time-after-message-was-due/etc., or you can invoke fire off
- applications and send them Apple events. (Even has a builtin to send messages
- to somebody's Mac-based pager software.)
-
- I can hardly imagine a more flexible alarm system, and you get the calendar
- thrown in free, and you can use it to fire off applications that don't have
- their own built-in scheduler. An upgrade will interface to the X-11* (or
- whatever it is called) household controller, too. (If you have seen an early
- version, look again... it has a calendar-with-text-in-squares view now, and
- it has a very flexible calendar/schedule printing ability now.)
-
- * Not the Windowing System, but the controller that works over your electrical
- lines.
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- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
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