Tracking Down Great Software For You!
It is probably as hard for you to get up in the morning as it is for me. I used to set an alarm on my television and I would place the remote right next to the TV so that I had to get up in order to turn the alarm off. That did a great job of getting me up…until I got a new TV and it didn’t have that feature.
In my quest to find an alarm clock for my PC I stumbled upon Citrus. It is a free program that lets you set an unlimited number of alarms and makes use of your existing media player. You won’t be startled by that unexpected alarm anymore because it has a fade-in “relaxed awakening” feature to gradually wake you up. Hey, anything that saves a heart attack is a good thing in my opinion.
It doesn’t do much more than that…which is why it’s great! I hate receiving bloated software that does nothing but bog down my system for a few features that I’ll never use.
Download the Citrus Alarm Clock (Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP)
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You can set up a scheduled task to launch your media player at your ‘wake up’ time. You could even specify which song/playlist you’d like it to play using command-line arguments.
So do you live in a studio apartment where your PC is in earshot?
My computer is too far away from my bed to be heard. That is unless I cranked the volume up on the Klipsch speakers I have attached to it. But that would defeat the “soft” wakeup feature of this app.
That is quite clever because I never thought about scheduling a task to launch the media player. It is kinda nice to have a quick interface that can easily be accessed though.
My PC is located in the room right next to our bedroom so it is easy to hear. It is loud enough for me to hear it and annoying enough that it makes me want to get up to turn it off. I don’t have it play music, instead I downloaded a small slip of a buzzer sounding and set my media player to repeat songs. That way it will keep going until I turn it off.
That was a good idea to download a buzzer sound. Something annoying that “makes” you get up to turn it off. Seeing as the act of actually getting out of bed is the inertia that I am sure most of us have to overcome in the morning.
Anyway I don’t leave my computer running through the night. So it isn’t any good to me.
Double quoting hurts the CSS and clogs the database, people
I know what you’re saying about alarms. I’ve had my phone wake me up for the past few years, and whilst it does gently fade in the noise has become associated with the getting up struggle so much that it pains me to hear it at any other time.
I won’t be downloading it because my PC is next to my bed and thus is turned off at night, but it sounds like a nice little program – and I hate bloatware too.
Yes, I haven’t figured out a solution to the double-quoting thing yet. It obviously doesn’t work.
I have used my phone to wake me up in the past as well but the place where I charge it is too far away for me to hear it. Not only that but the phone will stop the alarm after about 20 seconds. That’s definitely not enough time to make me want to get out of bed.
Yes, my phone alarm is a bit short too. So if I really need to get up on time I put my clock alarm on. Problem with that is that it wakes the rest of the family.
And regarding the double quoting, the easiest thing is for people to do a bit of work and just delete quotes from within quotes – even if the CSS could render it properly it adds unnecessary duplication to the database.