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Start a timer via the url
- orensol 14y agoCool.
- zerovox 14y agoI've been using http://e.ggtimer.com/ http://e.ggtimer.com/ for a while, seems a bit more comprehensive.
- ianbooker 14y agoYes, its the same principle, but tested for years. They also have a non-flash ("mobile") version: e.ggtimer.com/m/5minutes
- marvwhere 14y agothx to this comment, i created now a fluid-app for me with eggtimer.com! there is always a time when u need one (and ur too lazy to ask siri to do it ;) ) but now i would love to have a option on fluid, that ask me for parameter when it starts, so i can set the timeframe when i start the "app"
- d23 14y agoAm I misunderstanding something? I tried starting it thusly: http://alrt.io/3%20hours%2022%20minutes http://alrt.io/3%20hours%2022%20minutes Is the point not that it can handle a variety of input?
- adlpz 14y agoThere's a clear bug in the parser. If you change 'minutes' with 'seconds', it works. Sloppy programming :/
- jstanley 14y agoIf you change "minutes" to "minute", it seems to work.
- juliangruber 14y agoi fixed it, the parsing regex should be more stable now
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- rythie 14y agoI think it needs to be able to flash the favicon, when you have several tabs open, you can't see the title change.
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoagreed
- achal 14y agoIf you pin the tab, Firefox and Chrome should glow the favicon on title change.
- piqufoh 14y agoWell there's one hour and three seconds I'll never get back. Neat idea - will be great for timing board games.
- wesbos 14y agoGreat idea! Is the source anywhere? Would be cool too language processing for something like http://alrt.io/three%20hours http://alrt.io/three%20hours
- juliangruber 14y agoyes, see https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io Patches are always welcome!
- nono-atwork 14y agowould be nice to have window.focus() added to your notifyWindow() javascript function, that way it gets my attention. :-)
- otibom 14y agoThis is pretty neat. But I'm having a hard time understanding why should this be a web app ? When are we getting seamless installation of things like that ?
- arb99 14y agoif on a public computer it would probably be a pain to find an alarm to go off after a certain amount of time. i think it could be pretty handy. easier than getting phone out and setting one there
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- Kiro 14y agoI think you missed the point of this. Try again.
- chch 14y agoNote: if you put in a time in hours higher than http://alrt.io/80063993375h http://alrt.io/80063993375h (such as http://alrt.io/80063993376h http://alrt.io/80063993376h ), your timer may go off a second early, as it skips the first :59 on Mac OS X Safari/Chrome, going straight from :00 to :58. I don't imagine this bug would cause much misfortune, though.
- _phred 14y agoNow, on alert completion do this: window.location.href = 'nyan.cat'; Neat little app, nice to see a simple non-Flash version of http://e.ggtimer.com http://e.ggtimer.com
- deadfall 14y agoThis would be great. It could definitely use a fun alert or a way for a user to make their own alert via some url.
- bajsejohannes 14y agoSimple and cool. How about making the URLs more human readable: alrt.io/2minutes50seconds or alrt.io/2m50s instead of alrt.io/2%20minutes%2050%20seconds The %20 makes it really hard to parse.
- bbrks 14y agoNot sure if it's updated since you wrote this, but you can do alrt.io/2m50s Still %20s in long format URLs though
- Mahn 14y agohttp://alrt.io/2minutes50seconds http://alrt.io/2minutes50seconds <- works just fine, or at least it does now.
- sturmeh 14y agoWhat like... http://steep.it/2minutes50seconds http://steep.it/2minutes50seconds ?
- rochoa 14y agoThe timeLeft -= 1000 approach is not the best one because setTimeout doesn't guarantee when the next tick is gonna happen. Just open the JS console and type: for (var i = 0; i < 1e7; i++) {} You will block the JS execution and your next tick will happen when the loop finishes. Using new Date().getTime() should do the job. Edited for formatting.
- ajanuary 14y agoScrolling in iOS also stops setTimeout being called.
- juliangruber 14y agoI fixed that, thanks :)
- atomical 14y agoCool, always good to have a countdown timer for monotonous things like stretching.
- momchenr 14y agowhat about milliseconds? no love there? :)
- of 14y agoCool I've been using http://steep.it/ http://steep.it/ but this is more flexible
- orangethirty 14y agoCool. I wrote something like this to alert me when its time to pick up my daughter from school. Though in my implementation it starts playing a very annoying alarm (I always have headphones on). Congrats on shipping!
- avelis 14y agoReminds me of http://www.timer-tab.com/ http://www.timer-tab.com/ although I don't think timer-tab support url instantiation.
- paul9290 14y agoCool to see others doing this too! We've (Sleep.fm) allowed users to set our online alarm clock by typing or clicking a URL(sets time & sound). Examples... http://sleep.fm/7am http://sleep.fm/7am (sets alarm for 7am) http://sleep.fm/10pmRooster http://sleep.fm/10pmRooster (sets alarm for 10pm; sound is Rooster) http://sleep.fm/6amWeather http://sleep.fm/6amWeather (sets alarm for 6am; sound is spoken weather report)
- juliangruber 14y agothe code for this site is open source: https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io
- juliangruber 14y agothere is a progress indicator in the favicon now!