Well, that's a good question, and the answer lies above - Apimac Timer, your freeware alarm clock for Mac! Apimac, award-winning Mac software developer since 1996, has just released version 6.0 of this program, and since the official email came in a few minutes ago, here's the boiling hot essential info about it:
"Apimac Timer is freeware, this means that users can freely use it as long as they wish, anyway some users could be interested in buy the Pro version which adds some additional features as emailing the log at a specific interval of time; computer log out, restart and shut down; launching a specific application; executing shell scripts; launching a web address and so on..."
Minimum requirements include 32 MB hard drive space, at least Mac OS X 10.4, but fortunately this program comes as Universal Binary, fully compatible with both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
While Timer 6.0 is freeware, there's also a Pro Edition available for $14.95, with Company and Site Licenses available. Oh, yeah, one more thing - here you have the Pro-exclusive features:
- Email the log to your preferred email address at a specific interval of time.
- Computer log out, restart, shut down, sleep, log event, quit application.
- Launch specific application, open a specific file with the appropriate application, execute AppleScript, execute shell script.
- Launch web address, launch FTP address, send email, ping.
- Black Screen and Sound Off.
- Perform multiple actions.
- AppleScript support.
- Full-screen mode.
- Apple Remote support.
These being said, I leave you to fully enjoy your new alarm clock for Mac, although I must confess that, despite the utility of such programs, I hate them. The reason is obvious - you can always break a $5 alarm clock when it tries to wake you up, but breaking your $1,000 computer isn't such a good idea...