Tag: TIMER

For the grand old fee of $3.99 you can now have access to two very alluring photographic features on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad 2: noise reduction for your low-light shots, and a self timer so that you can be in your own photos! These new features are available as an in-app purchase for the excellent (and free) Photoshop Express 2.0 for iOS. $3.99 seems a little bit expensive, but there's ...

The Pomodoro Technique is a simple way to stay focused while you work. In a nutshell, you choose a task, focus on doing only that for 25 minutes, and then take a 5-minute break. The interval during which you work is called a "pomodoro", which means "tomato" in Italian. That's because the guy who came up with the method used a kitchen timer shaped like a tomato. Oh, and every four pomodoros you ...

A timer is one of those essential applications a phone must have; note that I'm not even saying "smartphone," but just about any phone, even the lowliest S60 Nokia phone, has a very usable timer accessible right from the 'main screen.' There are a ton of timers available for Android, but most use the stock UI controls and emphasize features like multiple timers, saved presets, and others I ...

Along with pornography, it seems that online egg timers are a driving force for change and innovation on the Internet. I'm not sure there's any other way to explain the proliferation of egg timers. Granted, people may be using these timers for more than just eggs, but this burgeoning market segment never ceases to amaze and surprise me. My latest find is simply called Online Egg Timer, which is a ...

CD is another one of those so-called "URL-driven" Web applications. It's a timer, and all you have to do is feed it with the right URL. Here are a few examples: http://cd.justinjc.com/15 will count down 15 minutes. http://cd.justinjc.com/15s will count down 15 seconds. http://cd.justinjc.com/2h4m15s will count down two hours, four minutes, and 15 seconds. http://cd.justinjc.com/430pm ...

TimeComX is fairly similar to Shutdown Timer; the main differences are in the UI and the name. So, in a nutshell, it lets you perform an operation (run a program, restart, shutdown, lock the computer, play an audio file, etc.) when something happens. That "something" can be a timer running out or some "usage threshold" being crossed (for example, CPU level exceeds 25%). If I recall correctly, ...

Shutdown Timer is a utility which shuts down your computer, logs you off, runs a file or does any number of other things once the CPU goes above or beyond a certain threshold, or the network downstream or upstream passes a threshold, et cetera. In simple terms, it's a tool which lets you shut down your computer once your downloads complete for the night. I've covered it before, but a new version ...

Write Attack! is a very neat writing tool. You set a timer for your session and specify how many words you'd like to write. Once you write the first ten words, the timer starts counting back. You now have X number of minutes to make that target and write as many words as you decided to write. While the timer is running, you cannot save your file, and you can't copy your text elsewhere. It's ...

One evening, a while back, I put a bunch of eggs to boil and went back into my room. Over an hour later, when smoke started seeping in from under the door, I remembered with a start that I completely forgot about the eggs. Bursting out of my room into the smoke-filled apartment, I made my way to the stove and shut it off. Of course, not only were the eggs ruined, but the whole place reeked of ...

We've all said this to ourselves at one time or another: "Oh, I'll just read Wikipedia for another 15 minutes, then I'm going to do my work." Then two hours pass, but the work remains unfinished. Oops! x.minutes.at is a site that lets you keep those promises to yourself, through the magic of technology. By magic, I mean that the site you're viewing automatically closes after a specified time ...

We've featured productivity apps based on the Pomodoro Technique before. Jason shared Pomodoro for the Mac and I recently discovered KeepFocused for my Windows system. If you spend a ton of time in your browser -- and that browser happens to be Google Chrome, Chromium, or SRWare Iron -- you might want to install the Chromodoro extension. Once it's active, just click the little tomato to ...

In case you aren't familiar with it, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management system. The original book by Francesco Cirillo has been extremely popular since its publication in the early 1990s and it's now available as a free PDF download [Google Viewer link]. The technique is simple and involves setting up 25-minute intervals for a given task and taking a short break at the end (five ...

The Pomodoro technique is a time-management productivity technique that involves giving yourself a set amount of time to work on a specific task, and then a short rest period. Finding timers that are specifically suited to this task can be troublesome, but our buddy Steven Sande over at TUAW has already done the hard work for us. And it turns out the best Mac tool for performing the Pomodoro ...

Tracking how much time you spend on a project is often a pain, and there are a lot of complex software solutions - both web-based and downloadable - that are more confusing than helpful. Yast, on the other hand is painfully, stupidly easy to use. Pick a project, click and drag on the timeline to indicate when you worked on it, and then enter a note about what you did. That's all. Seriously. If ...

There are a million timer applications available online. It seems like creating a timer is something all programmers need to do at some point, somewhere between 'Hello world' and their actual software development career. Therefore, there are a lot, and I mean a LOT of crappy timer apps out there, particularly free ones. Thankfully Timer by Apimac is not one of them. Timer is a useful, well ...