OnTimers 1.0 review

OnTimers™ is a comprehensive timer and alarm clock application that allows a user to run multiple concurrent timers, enable warnings before a timer completes, and activate multiple options when a timer finishes.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 891K Developer: Selznick Scientific Software, LLC Buy Now Price: $12.00 Updated: 19 Dec 2005

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OnTimers™ is a comprehensive timer and alarm clock application that allows a user to run multiple concurrent timers, enable warnings before a timer completes, and activate multiple options when a timer finishes. These options include launching applications, multichannel sound, speech, and more. OnTimers can even awaken your computer from sleep at just the right time and save frequently-used timers to a catalog!

Here are some key features of "OnTimers":
Styles of Timers:
Count Up
Count Down
Count Up Indefinite (Stopwatch)
Count Down then Up (Lab Timer)

Warning Options: Before a timer completes.
Warn any number of seconds, minutes, hours, or days before timer completion.
Warn with a spoken count down that uses the MacOS Speech Manager or with sounds installed in your system.
Repeat the warnings on a user-specified interval.

Completion Options: When a timer completes.
Play any sound installed in your system.
Repeat sound any number of seconds, minutes, hours, or days after timer completion.
Speak a message using the MacOS Speech Manager.
Open a timer that was previously saved to your Timer Catalog.
Open and start a timer that was previously saved to your Timer Catalog.
Flash an icon in the menubar using the standard MacOS notification mechanism.
Launch an application (even a compiled AppleScript!).
Open a document.
Show a dialog.
Stop and close the currently running timer.
Awaken your computer from sleep. (PowerBook screens must be open.)

Menus and More:
Name any timer.
Any timer's settings can be used as the default for all new timers.
Any timer's settings can be named and saved to a user-configurable catalog.
Run more than one timer at a time.
Multi-channel sound allows the playing of multiple speech and sound warnings and alarms at the same time!
Set any timer with days:hours:minutes:seconds, or as an alarm with an absolute time!

Notes Panel:
Save notes with any timer... up to 32, characters!