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The “24″ Clock on ALARMd

If you’re only using @font-face for titles and text, you’re missing out on a whole wealth of use cases that have yet to be explored. For instance, I created a very simple 7 Segment Display Numeric font to be used for a skin on alarmd.com and changed the color using nothing but CSS to [...]
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ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day

In honor of 1234567890 day, I’ve added the Unix time format to ALARMd. Hit Options, then the Clock Format tab to change to Unix Time. Enjoy!
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Scare Your Visitors with this JavaScript Gravatar Plugin

Here's a use case. An unregistered visitor visits your blog, and decides that your content is so good that it merits a comment! Congratulations, you've fooled them! But since they're leaving a comment, why not show them a preview of their gravatar?
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ALARMd is a Google Code Project

I received a request this week to participate in development of the internet alarm clock I developed awhile back called ALARMd. It has gone through two major revisions, and my interest in contributing additional source code to the project is waning. I’ve got other projects. So, I’ve decided to publish it to [...]
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Fight Registrastination. Register to vote!

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ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration

Take a look: ALARMd 2 Beta Update: added Metric and Unit Circle time formats. I know, some of you are reading this and thinking to yourself — genital herpes is more appealing than yet another online alarm clock. But to that I say, congratulations, that’s one of the new features in ALARMd 2! Why did I make [...]
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Yet Another Pretty Date JavaScript

I can’t let this Pretty Date thing go. I decided to use a modification of John Resig’s Pretty Date JavaScript implementation written by Dean Landolt and shared in the comments on John’s page. The script was an obvious choice for the next iteration of Alarmd, which is nearing completion as I type. The more [...]
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PHP Pretty Date

This class is pretty much a direct port of John Resig’s JavaScript Pretty Date to PHP 5. A few notes: Requires PHP >= 5.10, due to the usage of PHP’s new DateTimeclass. The new DateTime object parses strings using PHP’s strtotime, so you don’t need to pass in an ISO8601 formatted date, as in JavaScript Pretty [...]
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