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No matter how you boil it, Egg is just an alarm. It can sit in your system tray or run transparently in a PC program window. The simple, plain interface lets you set a time in the future, from five seconds to five days to any measurement in between, when you'll play a sound or an audio file (MP3s or otherwise) as a reminder.
The sound can repeat as often as you want, or as long as it takes for you to get that can of beer out of the freezer before it explodes. You'll find a few tools for customizing the program's appearance, including the ability to resize the main window, tweak its transparency, and change the colors of the background and display. You can now set multiple alarms, though selecting and displaying them is needlessly difficult.
Overall, this Egg's a good one; just don't expect anything fancy.
Publisher's Description
From ACAPsoft:
Looking for a program to measure how much time you spend on jobs, time chess games, or to prevent you freezing soft-drink cans? Egg is an easy to use timer that can do these tasks and more! It can count up and down, is settable by second divisions from 3 seconds up to 45 days, and while its default window size is compact, it can be varied to whatever size you want (including borderless full screen) to allow you to see the count from across the room. Egg can display up to four timers at once, with each one having its own time, font, color (foreground and background), time-up sound and text, repeat and direction settings. Twenty different timer configurations can be stored, and any can be shown in any timer space. Additionally common times are settable with only two clicks from a selection twelve customization times. You can also pick a target time that Egg will countdown to. When a countdown has finished Egg can sound a beep or play a common Windows audio file (including MP3s) or it can run a file. The sounds can be set to repeat and both sounds and files can be selected randomly.
For the more demanding user, Egg offers several more advanced abilities, including a HTTP remote function, a dedicated chess timer mode, work/rest mode, variable transparency, screen blank, auto repeating timers, keyboard shortcuts, clock sync, time-up warning, flash screen alarm, auto hide buttons, customizable menus, and random alarm times. Egg can also be minimized to the System tray or the taskbar and controlled via its icon. Command line options are also supported and Egg requires around 200KB of hard drive space.What's new in this version: Version 1.6 resumes the computer on alarm event.
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"Easy to use"
Version: Egg 1.52
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"You want simple , everything you need. good options.. well"
Version: Egg 1.4
Pros
This inexpensive countdown /with alarm, is far superior to some of the fancy 'flash' ones avail. It does the job, and well.. if you want pretty.. look elsewhere.. but do try this. for eight bucks, for whatever you don't want to miss .. this is great.
Cons
it is not pretty.. not at all....
but if you want there IS the min button RIGHT
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"Great simplicity!"
Version: Egg 1.242
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"Maths"
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
There are no viruses in Egg. Pretty obvious when you consider that Egg is smaller than most viruses...
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"Be aware!"
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
As soon as I downloaded this prog, my Norton AV soon discovered 2 viruses. Not a bad prog, could do with some extra features, but not worth the viruses that go with it.
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"The seconds are correct, but it's slow!"
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
To the previous comment, there are 60 seconds on the programme, starting from 59 down to 00. If counting 00 as 60, it is perfect. However, if counting 60 down to 00 and then 60 again, one'll find it has one more second than needed. However, the seconds are off--sometimes fast, sometimes slow--approximately 1 second slower than usual.
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"excuse me, but, aren't there 60 seconds to a minute?"
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
The makers are a second off per minute. Yes, this software is designed with a 59 second minute. Check it out. Before deleting.
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"Small display countdown time is unreadable."
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
There is no way I could find to adjust the small display to show the count down timer. The large display is full screen, so it is impoosible to use the timer while working on something else.
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"Works great. Just what I needed."
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
No frills, no problems. Among other stopwatch features there is a repeating countdown timer with an audio cue. That was exactly what I was searching for. A big screen display of the time would be a great addition.
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"Does eggsactly what it says on the tin (sorry about the pun)"
Version: Egg 1.242
Summary
Small, yet functional.
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