Software : Alarm++ - multiple alarms which can repeat at various intervals

Alarm++

Alarm++ doesn't just remind you of events—it can do many of them for you. Create multiple alarms which can repeat at various intervals, from simple to complex, from once to forever or until a specific date.

Alarm++ has many unique features that make it especially easy and convenient to use:

Event window sample • Many repeat options: minutes, hours, days, weekdays, weeks of the month, months, workdays, non-workdays, etc.

• Snooze command which you can adjust when an alarm goes off (in a few minutes, hours, or days)

• Restrict events to specific weekdays, months, weeks of the month, and/or time range

• Skip events that don't occur on workdays or just occur on the next available workday

• Ignore events if they occur in the past

• Play sound files, a speaker beep, or no sound at all

• Save changes automatically — you'll never lose your alarms to a Windows crash

• Event windows appear on your screen, wherever you choose, but don't take your cursor away from your work

• Send messages to other computers on your network

• Run applications, scripts, and batch files

Windows provides support for scripting. You can write scripts in Visual Basic Script or JavaScript and use Alarm++ to run them at specified times.

• Visit Web pages (Internet shortcuts) automatically

• Send e-mail automatically, even when you’re away from the computer

• Create alarms from templates that you create yourself for the alarms you use most often

• Well-designed user interface -- you may never need to reference the context-sensitive help help

• Stays out of the way on your system tray and only displays its main window when you open it

• Context menus and docking toolbars let you customize the application to fit the way you work

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Why pay $100 or more for some other application that doesn't do everything for you?

Other organizer applications don't give you the extensive features you need for keeping track of your important events and automating your repetitive tasks. Alarm++ does more to enhance and extend your capabilities.

Features	Alarm++	Outlook 2000	Palm OS 3.5
Restrict events to a specific date	ü	ü	ü
Restrict events to specific months	ü
Restrict events to specific weekdays	ü	ü	ü
Restrict events to specific weeks of the month (first, second, third, fourth, and last)	ü	ü
Restrict events to workdays	ü
Restrict events to non-workdays	ü
Restrict events to a time range	ü	ü
Restrict events to a combination of months, weekdays, weeks of the months, workdays or non-workdays, and a time range (Only occur on workdays between 10:23am and 4:49pm on the second Tuesday and Friday in March, July, and October.)	ü

Repeat events by a specific number of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years	ü		ü
Repeat specific number of times	ü	ü
Repeat until a specific date	ü	ü	ü
Repeat forever	ü	ü	ü
Disable individual alarms	ü

Events can display a window (tiny, small, medium, or large)	ü
Display reminder text in RTF, using bold, underline, italics, strikeout, different fonts, colors, bullets, left-align, right-align, and center	ü
Events can animate their windows	ü
Events can position their windows anywhere on the screen	ü
Events can change the transparency of their windows	ü
Events can play a specific sound file	ü	ü
Events can beep the speaker (You specify the duration and frequency)	ü
Events can send e-mail automatically (with attachments, using To, CC, and BC) via SMTP, MAPI, or CMC	ü
Events don't "steal" focus from your current application	ü	ü
Event windows can be minimized so that you're not forced to acknowledge them to get them out of your way	ü
Option to not display event windows above the screen-saver	ü
Events can run an application	ü
Events can open a Web site	ü
Events can open a folder	ü
Events can run scripts or batch files	ü
Events can run applications when the initial event occurs, when a snoozed event occurs, when you snooze it, or when you dismiss them	ü

Offset event time by minutes, hours, days, or weeks	ü		not weeks
Offset event time by workdays or non-workdays	ü
Specify which weekdays are workdays	ü
Specify certain days as non-workdays (i.e., vacation days)	ü

Create new alarms from templates that you design	ü
Snooze events by a variable number of minutes, hours, or days	ü	preset options	fixed snooze
Automatically skip an event if it was to go off a specific number of minutes, hours, days, or weeks in the past	ü
Test your alarms to make sure they do what you want	ü
Control the application via automation (add alarms programmatically)	ü
Convenient tray icon for accessing frequently used commands	ü
Pause and resume all events (e.g., while playing a game you don't want interrupted)	ü
Open multiple alarm databases simultaneously (e.g., one at home and one on your USB key drive)	ü

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Event Window

Appears when an event occurs (optional).

event window

Alarm's General Page Set message, date, time, default snooze, an offset from the selected date(s), and an optional expiration time. You can also specify that this alarm is a template, from which you can create other alarms.
Alarm's Repeat Page Set date, repeat interval, number of events.
Alarm's Advanced Page Specify certain weekdays, weeks, months, whether to occur only on workdays or non-workdays, and an optional time restriction.
Alarm's Sound Page Specify sound file, beep, or no sound.
Alarm's Window Page Specify the size and location of the event window (if any), its level of transparency, and its animation.
Alarm's Run Page Run an application, visit a web site, open a document, run a script, and more.
Alarm's Mail Page Send an e-mail with optional attachments.
Workdays Specify which days of the week you work and which days of the year are exceptions (such as holidays or vacation).