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>>I am looking for an alarm-clock program that allows one to set simultaneous
>>alarms for several different times during the day, with a (possibly)
>>different sound associated with each. (An obvious usage would be to set an
>>alarm for each hour on the hour, with the associated sound speaking the
>>time, but that's not what I need it for.)  Does such a thing exist?  I
>>can't seem to find one in the archives.  Part of a not-too-expensive
>>commercial package would be OK.

Easy Alarms is a very nice, inexpensive Calendar package. Its alarms are
extremely flexible, with a wide range of recurring options ranging from
every N seconds to every N months, including every Nth <day of the week> of
each month, etc.. You can select sounds/messages for each alarm, or you
can have a script go off. The script can play sounds, make choices and
display different messages, including messages/decisions that depend on
the time/date/time-after-message-was-due/etc., or you can invoke fire off
applications and send them Apple events. (Even has a builtin to send messages
to somebody's Mac-based pager software.)

I can hardly imagine a more flexible alarm system, and you get the calendar
thrown in free, and you can use it to fire off applications that don't have
their own built-in scheduler. An upgrade will interface to the X-11* (or
whatever it is called) household controller, too. (If you have seen an early
version, look again... it has a calendar-with-text-in-squares view now, and
it has a very flexible calendar/schedule printing ability now.)

* Not the Windowing System, but the controller that works over your electrical
lines.
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)