What is Desk Alarm ?

Desk Alarm is a small utility written in Java. It allows you to set a time based alarm, you can set your favorite song as a melody. Windows does not have a simple alarm functionality perhaps it may come for rescue.

Best part is that it does not installs on your system anywhere, simply delete the single jar file and it is gone. Unlike products with windows DNA this puny little application is completely unaware of Windows registry ; moral : No trace on your machine.

 

Some More of Stupid Stuff ?

The wasteful effort to build this alarm started some days back (5th july 2008). Motive was very simple, I don't have a very good phone alarm so i wrote a small program with hardcoded alarm time, let it run on my laptop(today is 12th day since it was last powered down) and it was somehow able to make some good and loud noises to wake me up. Hence came up a utility mainly for personal use only, most of the time.

Some people may argue that it may be better to use windows scheduler to set alarms. Frankly speaking, If you need to set an alarm the application name should be Alarms or something sounding similar to alarm or clock but Scheduler is somewhat scary. Personally I don't want to set alarms using a Windows Scheduler.

Apart from being in I Love OpenSource (read I Hate Windows ) group, it is necessary for me that an application written for my personal leisure should be usble by most of the people around the web. Hence Java ( will not use windows scheduler ).