It is with great pleasure that I hereby announce availability of the Emptosoft Alarm, version 1.0. The Emptosoft Alarm is a very basic program that I wrote a few months ago and tweaked a bit this afternoon - it gives your computer alarm-clock functionality. The program is very, very small - only about 2KB without the built-in alarm sound. Oh, and while the built-in alarm sound is fairly nice, if you put a file called "sound.wav" in the same directory as the program, it will play that as the alarm sound instead.

The software is released under my "beerware" licence:
The Emptosoft Alarm, (henceforth known as 'the software'), is provided 'as-is', without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, without limitation, fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the software is with you.
The software was created by Mark Hogan. As long as you retain this notice you can do whatever you want with it and its source code and files (if supplied). If we meet some day, and you think the software is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.

Of course, I don't expect to meet most visitors of this website so, if you want to buy me a beer, there is a donation system on this blog for doing so. Also, I should point out that it's fair that I'm not obliged to take any responsibility for consequences of using the software, or provide any support, when you consider the fact that it's free. At the moment, the source code is available on request (either via email or blog comment) until I can think of a hassle-free but neat way of making it available.

Click here to download the Emptosoft Alarm.

The Emptosoft Alarm should work on any desktop OS (I don't think the UI will work on mobile operating systems and, besides, mobile operating systems come with alarms), although I have found in the past that Mac OS X has an older version of Java which will only run software compiled with old versions of Java - if you are running OS X, ask for the source code and compile the software yourself (I'd appreciate it if you could send me the result of the compilation - that way I can distribute a version of the Emptosoft alarm which is guaranteed to run on all operating systems).

I have more software nearing completion, so keep checking this blog regularly...

Edit (23:40 WEST, 19 Jul 2009): With a bit of help, the Emptosoft Alarm is now compatible with Mac OS X - download the new version from the link above, now! (The version number hasn't changed because there have been no changes to the code).
Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:29 WEST | Category: Downloads
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