Publisher's Description:
From 12noon
Use Alarm++ to:
* remind you of meetings, birthdays, and deadlines
* wake up to your favorite MP3 files, videos, and CDs
* visit your favorite Web sites every morning
* send SMS text messages to a cell phone and remind anyone anywhere
* send messages over the network to remind others
* check your stocks weekly
* start scripts and batch files to perform complex tasks
* send e-mail reminders to anyone
* use animated characters for speech and gestures
Relax knowing that Alarm++ will play your favorite MP3 track to wake you up in the morning, remind you to go to that 10AM meeting with Marketing, and tell you to pick up milk on your way home. Alarm++ can even automatically put your computer in standby mode after you're gone for the day and start your e-mail program and favorite Web sites before you come in tomorrow morning.
Overview
Reminder windows
Alarm++ reminds you with event windows that don't take focus away from what you're doing. Dismiss them or snooze them whenever it's convenient (for a few minutes, hours, or days).
Play audio/video media
Events play any media you've got: MP3s, video, etc.wake up to your favorite track, favorite movie, or favorite sound clip from South Park.
Repeating events
Events repeat at many different intervals: every few minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years. Set alarms for every third Tuesday, Friday the 13th, the second workday of the month, the last Monday of every third month, and more
Events repeat as many times as you want: once, twice, forever, or until a specific date.
Customize events
Restrict events to certain hours of the day, weekdays, weeks of the month, months of the year, only on workdays, or only on non-workdays.
Schedule tasks
Start applications or scripts, open Web sites, open files, anything you can do with a Windows shortcut. Make backups every night, download your stock information every week, visit your favorite Web sites every morning, and more
If you have advanced needs, you can use Windows Scripting to make Alarm++ do almost any function when an event goes off. The Alarm++ installation includes some sample scripts and batch files that you can modify for your own use.
Send e-mail
Alarms send e-mail reminders to any e-mail address: your cell phone, someone's pager, your spouse, your department, etc. (You can use a Web service that routes an e-mail to a cell phone as an SMS text message.)
Shareware-try before you buy
Alarm++ is shareware so you can try it for FREE before you register.
The evaluation (unregistered) version of Alarm++ allows you to use ALL of its features: all types of repeat intervals, templates, e-mail, applications, and more. The only limitation is the number of alarms that can be active. You can create an unlimited number of alarms with the registered version.
Robust
Alarm++ saves your changes automaticallyyou'll never lose your alarms if Windows crashes.
Changelog for this release:
New option to delay events after computer wakes from sleep