Hi,
Thanks for the great wrap.
Just to let you know Kirby Alarm DOES allow you to set up alarms during
working hours only. (eg from 9am to 5pm)
Kind regards
Ian Cook (author of Kirby Alarm)
I use Kirby Alarm. It MAY do what you wish, but not sure. It DOES do
some pretty cool recurring alarms, like every 30 min and you can set
the days of the week to recur [like, of you don't want weekends, etc.]
Don't know if it can be set to NOT run at evening hours, or similar, as
you posted you prefered. For that you may have to use an additional
scheduler sort of program, to stop/disable/unload your alarm proggie at
selected hours and then to re-run at selected times. I don't know of an
alarm prog that can do both, tho.
But anyway, have a look at Kirby Alarm:
Here's the text I posted to a.c.freeware a while back. Also, be sure to
register [free] which will give you the link for the freeware latest
Beta update, which adds a lot of cool features:
I use & love Kirby Alarm, which doesn't get much mention in freeware
discussions. It's certainly more advanced than what you seem to need,
but here's the text of what I posted a while back re: Kirby Alarm --
the freeware download version & the freeware beta update that adds lots
of nice features.
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I use a proggie called Kirby Alarm -- very nice freeware, tho not often
mentioned. NOTE: after you register [free] you'll be able to download
the latest beta which has MANY enhancements.
Here's the site & blurb:
Kirby Alarm & Task Scheduler
http://www.kirbyfooty.com/
"Kirby Alarm is an alarm clock and task scheduler that will pop up a
note, or run a program, or play a sound, or send an email at user
defined intervals. Various options are available to set alarms (or
programs) to run every few minutes, hours, days, months, years, or the
last Friday in the month, or the last day in the month. Plus lots
more!! "
"Kirby Alarm is a completely free alarm and task scheduler that will
pop up a note, or run a program, or play a sound, or send an email at
user defined intervals.
"Various options are available to set alarms/programs to run every x
minutes/hours/days/months/years, or the last Friday in the month, or
the last day in the month. You can define intervals such as every 5
minutes, every other day, every second Tuesday of the month, or Monday
and Tuesday of every fornight at a given time.. Along with the ability
to define intervals, you can also set run times. For example, you could
schedule a task to run every 5 minutes but only between 8:00 a.m. and
5:00 p.m
"Other powerful features are 'skip missed alarms' and 'watch
file' options
"The Skipped Missed Alarms option is for when your computer is switched
off. The next time Kirby Alarm is run the missed alarm will be run!!
Very handy for scheduled backups when the power goes off at the
scheduled time!!
"The Watch File option is for conditional execution of the alarm based
on the date/time/or size of a file. This allows Kirby Alarm to interact
with other programs. For example, you want Kirby Alarm to execute a
batch file to back up your data, but can't start the backup until the
days end process in another application has finished. What do you do?
Sure you can kind of guess when it will be finished, but you can't
always be certain that it has, and you end up with a dud backup.
"If the other process can update a file (we will call this the watch
file) when days end has finished, then you can set up Kirby Alarm to
start checking for a change in the date stamp of the watch file. Every
5 minutes (or whatever recurrence type you choose) Kirby Alarm will
check the watch file and ONLY WHEN the date stamp (note other
conditions are also available) has changed will Kirby Alarm execute the
batch file. Neat huh?"
Once you install & register [free] the program, you can download and
install the latest beta.
The beta blurb:
<
www.kirbyfooty.com/kirbyalarmbeta.zip>
To install it just do the following...
(1) Exit kirby alarm. To exit kirby alarm just right click on the icon
(the
small brown football next to your clock), then select exit.
(2) Download the new version. You can download it from
<
www.kirbyfooty.com/kirbyalarmbeta.zip>
(3) Once downloaded unzip the contents of the file into the SAME
program
directory as version 2.1 is installed. (remember to exit Kirby Alarm
BEFORE
overwriting the existing file otherwise the file will be in use and
windows
will prevent you from overriding it)
(4) Restart kirby alarm.
The changes made so far in the new version are..
1.. Ability to play MP3's, WMA, MID sound files etc
2.. Ability to pop up more than one note
3.. Ability to set the font, size, colour, alignment (ie rich text
editing) in the pop up notes.
4.. Automatic purging of old alarms
5.. Allow up to 10 alarms if unregistered (was previously only 2)
6.. Allow the spin boxes for the hours/minutes to loop (ie when you
get to
59 minutes automatically lop back to 0 minutes and vice versa)
7.. Ability to stop a sound file playing
8.. Increase length of program string from 100 to 255 characters
9.. New field to enter the command line parameters for a program (up
to
255 characters)
10.. Ability to have a quick alarm button (ie press a button on the
main
screen to create an alarm to occur in 'x' minutes)
11.. Ability to stop all alarms for 'x' minutes
12.. Ability to set the number of times to play a sound file
13.. Ability to automatically snooze a pop up note alarm
14.. Show the next alarm date & time in the tray icon tooltip
15.. Enhanced snooze function
16.. Stop changing of windows setting for "Drag Full Windows"
17.. Do not prevent further alarms if pop up note displayed.
18.. New option in preferences screen to automatically purge completed
alarms.
19.. New option in preferences screen to set the default sound
directory
20.. Fix problem when copying an alarm regarding days of week etc.
21.. New option in right click menu to test the alarm
NOTE: as noted above, you MUST have the full install before you can
install the beta.
I really, really like this software. It has tons of nice features -- so
nice that I was just about ready to convert some of my sound files to
WAV format when I got the notice about the beta, which supports more
than WAV.
One feature it doesn't have that I'd like is for the popup
stickies-like reminders to be HTML-able -- ie, to recognize links, so
that I can just click the link to launch a webpage. One thing I use
Kirby for is when downloading files from RapdiShare. RS is a download
site for shared files, but has limits on the amount you can download in
an hour. After I've reached my limit, I can't download another file for
an hour -- so I set Kirby to remind me of this. I paste the RapidShare
URL into the reminder note with a description -- here's where I'd link
that pasted link to be clickable, tho it's obviously just a small
copy/paste operation.
[I believe there's other freeware to auto-recognize HTML links in
programs & launch your browser, but can't remember what they are --
anybody? I'm talking here about stuff outside of notepad text editors
sorta thing, like MetaPad or Win32Pad that recognize HTML links -- I'd
like to be able to do this from ANY program].
Anyway, try Kirby Alarm -- it's way cool!
Full Google Groups discussion of this & other alarms can be found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt....ebb2165f4cb01?q=kirby&rnum=1#6a9ebb2165f4cb01
