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Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
http://www.davecheong.com/2007/06/15/waking-up-early-15-tips...
http://www.davecheong.com/2006/06/14/waking-up-early-and-con...
Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
I used to with software called awaken but I stopped ever since my macbook's fan started to spin all the time... I love silence when sleeping and fan noises go against that
Light is the only thing thats done it for me, ever. In high school I made myself get up and turn on a light, which was permission to go back and lie on the bed for another 15 minutes. Without light, I've never been able to get up. The funny part is I sometimes forget this for extended periods of time and suffer awfully trying to get up in the morning.
PS. But it badly designed because it power adapter produces some low noise during night, which I can hear by one ear. It display is too bright and it built-in speaker is too cheap. :-(
Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
The program was cool enough that my girlfriend anthropomorphized it; we called the voice Grizwelda, and she had the capability to add her own reminders.
Last year I switched to Ubuntu and had some trouble with text-to-speech at first, so my current alarm clock is just a program that just tells Rhythmbox to start playing at a certain time. (I just got Festival text-to-speech working reliably today, so I'm planning to add all my old features I had in Windows days.)
I'd be very interested to hear about your startup. Put the details in your profile?
Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
Actually, a cool app would be an alarm that plays music from your music library. iPhone apps are sandboxed so you couldn't do this directly, but maybe you could stream it from a remote file? Hmmm...
Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
Yes! When I was on Windows, I wrote a program that starts music, pausing every few minutes to read out (using Windows's text-to-speech) the time, the weather (scraped from BBC's site; I was in England), which of my favorite blogs had updated in the last day, and any reminders I had for the day. The program was cool enough that my girlfriend anthropomorphized it; we called the voice Grizwelda, and she had the capabili…
Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too!
Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for other forms of wake up communication people will find useful!
Have young children.
I don't really understand the obsession with getting up in the morning. When everyone else is awake, they just distract me into not working. When everyone is asleep, it's dark out, and everything is closed, there's nothing to do but work. I can't think of one useful thing I've ever done during the day, actually...