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Timer-Tab
- chukye 10y ago503 - Over Quota for me :(
- Numberwang 10y agoI like it!
- kozhevnikov 10y agoYou can also google a timer or stopwatch, but it wouldn't have any favicon notifications. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=5s+timer https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=5s+timer
- xnzakg 10y agoI like how you linked to a "5s" timer, but the timer is actually 5 minutes.
- Cyph0n 10y agoDDG > Google* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5s+timer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5s+timer *at least when it comes to timers!
- SparkyMcUnicorn 10y agoIt looks like a bug! even changing 5s to "5 seconds" doesn't fix it .com doesn't have this issue https://www.google.com/search?q=5s+timer https://www.google.com/search?q=5s+timer
- koolba 10y agoIn a pre-app 2007 world, this would have been a killer web app for the v1 iPhone.
- tgb 10y agoDid it not come with a timer builtin? That seems like quite an oversight.
- icebraining 10y agoDon't remember those "iPhone vs rock" comparison charts? The 1 was a bit of a joke, it didn't have basic features that any smartphone at the time had (e.g. copy-paste).
- vog 10y agoNot sure why this was downvoted. This is an interesting and perfectly valid observation. I would go even further: A surprisingly high number of "apps" could be replaced with web apps, where "installation" of the app means the JS/HTML is cached in the browser, and "upgrade" means a new version is downloaded by the browser (e.g. due to changed ETag identifier, or whatever). Moreover, these "apps" would have almost no access to personal user data, which may be bad for business, but is more often that not a win from the privacy and customer protection perspective.
- desireco42 10y agoUpvote for webapps, the sooner we come back to the web, the better we will be.
- notheguyouthink 10y agoStrange, i'm trying to get further from the web. As it stands, everything i do is web related in one way or another. From storage to home assistants to note taking and blah blah blah, they're all on the web hosted by someone else. I know there are a few alternatives, but none of it really makes me happy. Currently, i'm trying to make my own home cloud, with a focus on simplicity.. but i doubt i'll succeed. I just know that nothing seems simple. I'm talking like, single binary "can't fuck it up" simple. Because it has to be stupidly easy to be used by my grandma, even if that means less features.
- eminarslan 10y agoIf you look closely you can see the magic. http://giphy.com/gifs/timer-timer-tab-eeJNaxWXZGMO4 http://giphy.com/gifs/timer-timer-tab-eeJNaxWXZGMO4
- holmb 10y agoThis is quite nice to throw on a screen in the NOC/SOC. However I would have liked if it was possible to set the alarm clock via the URL.
- simon_acca 10y agoCannot upvote this enough! The URL feature would be really useful, especially if you put the UNIX epoch time in the url. This way you can send the timer to other people/devices, and you can also close the tab by mistake and have the countdown pick up exactly where it should.
- simon_acca 10y agoI wanted this for a long time and ended up implementing it (proof of concept, not guarantees): https://epoch-timer.gomix.me/ https://epoch-timer.gomix.me/ Feel free to "remix" it: https://gomix.com/#!/project/epoch-timer https://gomix.com/#!/project/epoch-timer
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- strick 10y agoI don’t do alarms, just timers, but my site does it like this: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/ http://5.minutestocountdown.com/ One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.
- misterman101 10y agoThanks for this simple tool, I'll definitely use it next time. I broke it by putting in a non-integer number of minutes. Is this even fixable?
- Dowwie 10y agoThe moment this page opened, this song played in my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw
- Achshar 10y agoIt's a fancy looking timer/stopwatch? Am I missing something?
- jajern 10y agoI think the updating of the page title in the browser tab is the main feature. Also, the favicon updates. So you can be doing something in another tab and see the timer in the timer tab.
- Achshar 10y agoIs it terribly difficult to update the page title if the tab is not in focus? I guess browser pauses js interaction with DOM if the tab is out of focus.
- robbrown451 10y agoI use this to deal with setTimeout() slowing down in unfocused tabs: https://github.com/turuslan/HackTimer https://github.com/turuslan/HackTimer
- ZenoArrow 10y agoThe interesting part is the hack to get the timer working alongside the tab title.
- gremy0 10y agoIt puts the timer in the favicon so you can see it as a tab or bookmark icon.
- superplussed 10y agoAlso, isn't a fancy looking timer worth posting to see if people find it interesting?
- JorgeGT 10y agoIn Chrome the Youtube video that is used as alarm sound won't play until the tab is active, so if you are not looking at the browser and catch the tab flashing red, you won't notice.
- mrtksn 10y agoIt's very interesting in Safari on macOS when you switch to another tab. (I guess) You can see how Safari's power saving kicks in as the counter stops refreshing the tab title instantly after the 10th second and the next refresh is after 10 more seconds and the intervals of refresh increase as time passes.
- agumonkey 10y agoThat sort of things was the reason Android was bad at Audio I believe. "logic" first design backfired for time consistent needs. Also HTML5 music toys/apps had a hard time (sic) working when not in focus. It either slows down, has random tempo or just stops altogether.
- resfirestar 10y agoIf you set a timer for 5 minutes and close the tab for 30 seconds, it continues with 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Very cool. The one thing I don't like is using youtube embeds for the audio notification. It uses more browser resources and data than seems necessary, and adds the minor inconvenience of unblocking the scripts.
- huhtenberg 10y agoPerhaps add an option of using static favicon? Favicon flickers noticeably in Firefox when updated.
- wdfx 10y agoI can't get the timer to function on chrome on android. The focus jumps around and the start button doesn't seem to work
- zaggynl 10y agoNeat, there's also: http://e.ggtimer.com/10 http://e.ggtimer.com/10 minutes
- marvy 10y agotry again: your link goes to 10 seconds. (Might be an issue with HN link detection algo.)
- nacs 10y agohttp://e.ggtimer.com/10%20minutes http://e.ggtimer.com/10%20minutes Seems they don't support underscores as a separator so you get that ugly `%20` URL encoding of the `space` character in the URL making it look like "20 minutes" (or "10 modulo 20 minutes")..
- michaelhoffman 10y agohttp://e.ggtimer.com/10min http://e.ggtimer.com/10min works fine too.
- desireco42 10y agoIf you could do (and you can), do several timers at the same time, some people actually need those things. Just an idea.
- SlySherZ 10y agoFor everyone getting 503 Over Quota error, check WaybackMachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20161209044611/http://www.timer-tab.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161209044611/http://www.timer-...
- Fluid_Mechanics 10y agoI've been using this in conjunction with Alinof Timer from the Mac App Store for shorter deadlines (translucent overlay timer). Pretty effective at keeping me focused when I'm exhausted/groggy.
- r1ch 10y agoIt saddens me that we're living in an age where a static HTML / JS website ends up hosted on Google App Engine and can go "over quota".
- rocheio 10y agoVery cool! I made a similar tool last year that I use for Pomodoro. The favicon tomato changes from red to green when time is up, and it only updates the title time once a minute, but I find that to be less distracting while I'm working. https://roche.io/pomodoro/ https://roche.io/pomodoro/
- aq3cn 10y agoDoes anyone has recommendation for terminal friendly version of timer app?