Using Free Alarm Clock is piece of cake. The program's simple, almost minimalist interface helps too. Simply click the Add button and configure the settings for each alarm you create. You can set them to go off only on certain week days, and perform various tasks, such as waking up the computer or turning on the monitor.

Free Alarm Clock includes a dozen built-in alarm sounds and also lets you add your own audio files to create more personal alerts. When an alarm goes off, the program will display a notification on your desktop from where you can stop it or snooze it.

It may not be as feature-rich as other alarm tools, but Free Alarm Clock is the perfect choice for those of you who are looking for a simple, straightforward alarm app to remind you of anything .

Free Alarm Clock is a simple tool that lets you configure multiple customizable alarms on your computer in a very easy way.

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Citrus Alarm Clock is a simple but elegant alarm clock designed for those that want to wake up in style via their PC. It's much more advanced than a normal alarm clock and it gives you many more options over how you'd like to wake-up. The program is operated via a simple interface which allows you to set as many different alarms as you like using your existing media player. It therefore supports as many media formats as your player does which makes it pretty flexible in what tone, music or noise you choose to wake up to. You can even wake up to visual images of you want by setting it to play your TV Tuner or favourite show saved on your hard drive.

So that whatever you choose doesn't wake you too harshly, it features a gentle fade-in function to wake you up gently or you can choose to listen to it into your sleep up to a certain time when it will automatically mute until it starts again when you have to wake up. In this latest version, the developer had added a number of cool new features too including a snooze feature and a much more attractive and intuitive GUI.

Simple to use, powerful and completely free, this program could make those early starts just that little bit less painful.

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Alarm Clock Pro is a fully functional organizer and scheduler that aims to ensure you never miss an important date again. As a wake-up alarm, it allows you to configure the tone as anything from an Internet radio station to an MP3 and even a movie or daily task. If you don't have your PC in your bedroom that's no problem either - Alarm Clock Pro can be configured to send wake-up text messages to your cell phone.

An alternative use for the application is to have it periodically check your webcam and automatically send security screenshots to your email address. This way, you can use your PC as a closed-circuit TV monitoring device. In addition, you can program it to randomize the iTunes playlist, remind you of holidays and special occasions, perform system tasks, automatically send out birthday cards, text message your daily task list to a cell phone, amongst other things.

One slightly unusual aspect of Alarm Clock Pro is its ability to speak inspirational quotes at random moments throughout the day. This can be programmed to occur at virtually any specific time interval set by yourself to keep you going through the day.

It might sound a bit weird giving an Alarm Clock 'Pro' status but once you've seen everything Alarm Clock Pro can do, you'll understand why. You'll probably not find another alarm application that gives you so much control over how you use your system clock. There have been several bugs ironed out in this latest release but the downside is that for the first time, users are required to pay for Alarm Clock Pro. It's also worth adding that it's considerably inferior to the Mac version. It's clearly been designed for Mac originally as it requires QuickTime to even install and while all of the same functions are there, the Mac interface and usability is quite a but ahead.

An attractive interface combined with an array of different uses make Alarm Clock Pro one of the best alarm clocks around - it's just a shame it's not free anymore.

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Users will appreciate the simplicity of the application, making it great for any use and keeping it discreet on your desktop. The only little thing we could complain about is the fact that there's only one alarm sound. To recognize multiple alarms, it would have been best to offer a choice of sounds.

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Once installed and running it will sit in the system tray, from where you can open its control window. There are a host of features for such a small program, and some that make it more useful than you might at first think.

For the normal user, it acts as a useful reminder that you should rest your eyes for a minute or two. Basic setup means it will remind you to take rest your eyes every 10 minutes for one minute, doing so through a little pop up balloon. If however you find yourself ignoring it, and straining your eyes anyway, you can change the settings. Instead of the balloon, you can blackout the screen (with a get out button!), which drives the point home harder, or even replace the desktop with another image. That should be sufficient for most people.

You can save different settings with different profile names, perhaps depending on your activity or who is using the machine. For parents there's a great feature - a parent mode. Enabled with a password, you can set it up so the screen blacks out after a pre-determined period, and make the break inescapable without a password. There is a 30 second pre-warning that a break is about to come into effect so users have time to finish what they're doing. Unfortunately, the curious user will note the program can be disabled without the password by using ctrl, alt and delete, then forcing Eyes Relax to shut. As ever, some supervision is necessary.

With its different degrees of forcefulness, Eyes Relax is a great way to help you treat your eyesight with respect!

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Good Timing is a very simple but highly customizable alarm clock program. It consists of three screens - new alarm, alarm details and log. The new alarm screen, composed largely of drop-down menus, is easy to configure, allowing you to set a time for the alarm to go off at (for example, at 12.30) or in (in 35 minutes), or to set a timer. You can program Good Timing to you liking, even adding a note to appear when the alarm goes off and choosing your own alarm sound, either picking one from the preset options or adding your own .WAV file.

The log screen records previous alarms, while the alarm details area lets you see all of the alarms set - and a countdown to them - at one glance. Good Timing disappears to the taskbar when minimized, but bear in mind that if you exit it completely, the alarms you have set will not go off. Another thing to remember is to use colons (:) to separate the times you enter - if you don't, Good Timing will interpret them as a date.

One of Good Timing's best features, however, is its command box. This neat option lets you enter a Windows command and, when your alarm goes off, the program will carry it out. This is really useful, for example, if you want your computer to shut down at a certain time, say, after you have already gone to bed.

Good Timing carries out a simple task as efficiently and flexibly as possible.

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It would have been good to have the possibility to export the final results to a printable document like Excel, in order to keep a record to see daily improvements. The application does what it says and nothing more. It’s useful, but they could have developed some features to give more meaning to the results and to compare previous day’s result for the same task.

If you need to know how long it takes you to do something here’s an electronic time keeper that is not afraid to show you the inexorable cent-seconds passing.

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With this simple tool you'll wake up to the sound of your favorite songs, videos or whatever other media files – including CDs - you set as the alarm sound. College Alarm Clock can be scheduled to go off at a different time and play a different tune every day, which is perfect if you want to sleep a bit more during the weekend.

The program features a tabbed interface – one tab for each day – that's very easy to use, but which could certainly be improved in design. However design is not College Alarm Clock's main problem: you'll need to leave your computer on all night if you want the program to wake you up.

With College Alarm Clock you can wake up with your favorite songs, as long as you don't mind leaving the PC on all night long.

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There are more complex timers and productivity applications around, but if you just need one timer, without complications, Cook Timer is perfect. There are 3, 5, 10 and 15 minute presets, and you can also set a custom countdown. When it reaches zero, an alarm sounds.

This is a very basic program, you can't change the alarm sound and there are absolutely no options, but as a simple timer, it's effective. The alarm sound is clear, and the application sits out of the way in the system tray when minimized.

The lack of options makes Cook Timer pretty limited, but as an alarm it is functional and clear

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