Tag: ALARM

When I listed Gentle Alarm as one of my top Android apps, I promised a more in-depth review -- and here it is! Here are the key features of the app that's been (successfully!) waking me up every morning for the past several weeks. Profiles One of the best concepts in Gentle Alarm is that not all alarms are exactly alike. The Profiles screen lets you set up individual alarm "types". As you can ...

The iPhone's built-in alarm clock app is pretty good -- multiple alarms are nice, and it's very easy to set -- but there are some things it just can't do. For example, it can't wake you up automatically when you reach your destination. Sleep Blaster can, though. If you're on a train or a bus, you can set Sleep Blaster to wake you up when your GPS detects that you've arrived. I can't count the ...

Kuku Klok is a cute little Flash alarm clock. The interface couldn't really be simpler; you use the clock on the left side to set your desired wake-up time, select a sound (a cockerel by default, but you also have a classic clock, insanely irritating electronic chirping, metal guitar, and a military bugle), and hit "set alarm". Then when time comes, assuming your computer did not shut off during ...

Between the sundial, the dawn of digital watches and now cell phones taking a big dent out of the watch business, I'm not sure why you would need a clock in a browser, let alone one requiring an internet connection. Perhaps you sleep with your netbook by your bedside, complete with relaxing pzizz or other ambient noises. Or maybe you have an Ozymandias-style lair complete with dozens of monitors. ...

Sleep.fm is a personalized alarm service for your computer, phone, or Internet-enabled alarm clock that lets you and your friends leave each other personalized wake-up messages. While I agree that waking up to the radio, the standard alarm clock beep, or some obnoxious fake birds is less than ideal, I'm not sure I'm 100% sold on the utility of Sleep.fm. I started to get the picture a little more ...

As more and more folks abandon traditional phone lines in favor of exclusively using cell phones and broadband VoIP services, home alarm system technology is getting dragged out of the dark ages. Historically, in order to alert the alarm monitoring service of an intrusion, an alarm system would place a modem call over a phone line. But since VoIP services and cell phones don't properly support ...

If you broke your alarm clock because it made you mad yesterday, so you ended its pathetic life, or even if you didn't, you might consider waking up to an online alarm clock at Klokoo.com. You might even say the Klokoo improves on the traditional alarm clock by offering new and different options to wake up to, including an adequately obnoxious rooster crowing, that classic alarm bip-bip sound, ...

OnlineClock.net is pretty simple, but pretty cool. Online clock lets you choose the color, and size of the clock, along with what time you want it to ring, and presto, many minutes later you are buzzed awake. The sound is annoying enough that it actually might work to wake me up, and my wife too. It sounds like an easy way to "get rid" of hardware, so I can get a new PC. She trashes the bleeping ...

Your MacBook Pro has a built-in tilt sensor and camera. Since using Apple products for their intended purpose (like, say, running Mac OS X), here's a cool way to repurpose those features: iAlertU is theft alarm software that monitors your MacBook's camera and tilt sensor and, if it thinks your laptop is being manhandled while you've stepped away to grab another latte, sounds a loud alarm. ...