Tag Archives: Alarmd
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 create [...]
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 Google Code. I [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Interface Design, JavaScript, Projects Also tagged Google Calendar, jQuery, Youtube
ALARMd now supports URLs
When you add an alarm source to ALARMd, the Internet Alarm Clock, it will now default to opening the input URL in a new window, if the URL is determined not to be an MP3, Youtube video, or a LAST.FM user or tag. I added this to use maLArquee as an alarm. For instance you [...]
20/20 Hindsight, a Look Back at ALARMd
Now that the traffic has died down a little bit on ALARMd, I’d like to write a little bit about my experiences with something I don’t think anyone predicted would garner so much interest. The day I sent the link to the LifeHacker editor, I purchased the alarmd.com domain. My thoughts on the domain were [...]
Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock
Update: Try the new ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar integration and offline Youtube caching. Did you take your contacts out last night and you can’t see the time on your alarm clock from all the way across the room? I’m here to calm your fears. Enter ALARMD, the Internet Alarm Clock. Wake up to [...]
Posted in Interface Design, Projects Also tagged ExtJS, YUI
ALARMd is now on Github