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Everyone's had the experience of sitting down at the computer and suddenly realizing that hours have passed in the blink of an eye. Whether you need to remind yourself of an upcoming event or just give yourself a reminder of how much time you've spent online, Free Countdown Timer is a good choice. This basic program provides a simple alarm clock with just enough features to be fun.
The program's interface is clean and very easy to navigate. Adding an event is as simple as clicking the Add button and filling in the relevant details. Free Countdown Timer can sound an alarm after a specified amount of time has passed--from hours to seconds--or at a particular date and time. The program comes with a variety of alarm sounds, but you can easily select your own sounds or songs to use instead. There are a few extras that really make this program shine, including snooze and loop options, and the program's capability of waking the computer from sleep mode or turning on the monitor power. An online Help file doesn't offer much in the way of guidance, but that's okay; everything about Free Countdown Timer is easy to figure out. Overall, there's nothing about this program that really knocked our socks off, but we think it's a great choice if you're looking for a functional, attractive desktop alarm clock.
Free Countdown Timer installs and uninstalls without issues.
Publisher's Description
From Comfort Software:
It's great to be able to fully concentrate on the task at hand while waiting for a future task to be ready for action. Free Countdown Timer can remind you about important events by playing your favorite music (you can set volume to a predefined level) and showing a notification message. Timers that you set will sound even if computer goes to sleep. You can set the time in hours, minutes, seconds and an alarm will ring the counter reaches zero; or you can set date and time and an alarm will ring the counter reaches this time. Free Countdown Timer supports unlimited number of timers so that you are not restricted to the number of alarms you can have. Here are some events for countdown timer: New Year, Christmas, Halloween, Vacation, Birthday, Graduation, Wedding, Pregnancy, etc.
What's new in this version: Version 2.7.2:
- Fixed a bug: Sometimes alarms not fires when the computer wakes up from a sleep mode.
- Some other minor bug fixes.
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4.5 starsout of 14 votes
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"it does not install invading ad-ware"
Version: Free Countdown Timer 2.7.2
Pros
simple and slender. it does not install invading ad-ware like COOL TIMER does.
Cons
not much on the cons side
Summary
good
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"I've been lookin' for this...."
Version: Free Countdown Timer 2.7.2
Pros
FCT is very easy to use, flexible, let's you set multiple timers. I really like that it will wake up your computer from sleep mode.
Cons
As it is, when you create a new alarm you have to choose the alarm sound each time if you want to use music. It's nice to be able to do that but I would like to be able to set a default selection and then deviate from that IF I want to.
Summary
It's great!
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"Good, versatile timer"
Version: Free Countdown Timer 2.7.2
Pros
You can set as many timers as you want.
Cons
None in how I use it.
Summary
I conduct Internet workshops for a major automotive manufacturer and use the timer to track time on tests and group discussions.
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