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Written: Wed., July 19th, 2006Updated: 2007-07-16 12:39pm GMT-0400  

CustomTimer - A free countdown timer - Latest version

Lastest Version: 2.3.0.2

Free Download:

CustomTimer_2_3_0_2.zip

What Is CustomTimer?

<p>I wrote this program as an exercise in C# and .NET.&nbsp; Because  it&rsquo;s my first project in those technologies, it&rsquo;s not the best-designed, most elegant, or fullest-featured program, but it works, and it&rsquo;s free (with no adware/spyware).
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<p>Simply enter a time, choose any options you want, and hit the Enter  key or the Start button (its&rsquo;s pretty big &ndash;  you can&rsquo;t miss it!).&nbsp; Entering a time from which to count down from is pretty flexible, too.&nbsp; The following are equivalent:
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<ul>
  <li>1 minute and 30 seconds</li>
  <li>1 min  30 sec</li>
  <li>1m 30s</li>
  <li>1:30</li>
  <li>0:01:30</li>
  <li>:90</li>
  <li>90s</li>
</ul>
<p>So are these:
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<ul>
  <li>2 Days, 1 Hour, and 0 Minutes</li>
  <li>2 d 1hr </li>
  <li>2 days 1:00:00</li>
  <li>49:00:00</li>
  <li>49 hr</li>
  <li>49 hours</li>
  <li>2940 minutes</li>
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Download

<div class="attn" style="float:right; margin-left: .5em; border: 1px solid black; -moz-border-radius: 10px;"><h3  class="attn" style="padding: .5em; margin:0;"><a     href="http://www.alanhogan.com/files/CustomTimer_2_3_0_2.zip">CustomTimer_2_3_0_2.zip</a></h3></div>
<p>The latest version is here: <a href="http://www.alanhogan.com/files/CustomTimer_2_3_0_2.zip">CustomTimer_2_3_0_2.zip</a></p>

<p>Unzip it and run setup.exe.&nbsp; Ignore any warnings that <q>the publisher cannot be verified.</q>&nbsp; You may need to install the .Net runtime, but it will guide you through it, and it&rsquo;s an easy process.
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Future Improvements

<p>
 In the future, I may add the ability to count down to a specific date or time.&nbsp;  An even better feature would be custom alerts: A message box, a sound playing, a file launching, etc.&nbsp; Snooze might also be a good feature.
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Contact Me

<p>Feedback of all sorts is appreciated.&nbsp; Email <code>CustomTimer(at)AlanJHogan(dot)com</code> or leave a comment here.
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Open Source

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Any chance you’ll go open source with this project? This sounds like an app that i could modify into letting me set the computer to log off, or w/e i want it to (hopefully launch a program too) at a certain time. I guess to do that scheduling would be a nice feature too, but that seems like a different program, not just a minor modification.

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Sure

Posted by: alanhogan as a reply

I’m not sure about going open source, but I will essentially make it public domain and send you the source code if you like.  Just contact me. Alan J. Hogan

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