Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Free Countdown Timer 4.0 has been released

  • Free Countdown Timer now has full Unicode support.
  • New command line parameter /ADDTIMER has been added. This parameter opens the new timer window.
  • New: 6 alarm sounds have been added.
  • New: Translations of the UI into Greek and Indonesian languages.
  • Improved Windows 10 Compatibility.
  • Improved: The reminder window shows the snooze time on the snooze button.
  • Improved: The floating timer has a tooltip window that display the alarm time.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the floating window displayed the incorrect amount of months and days.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the alarm event did not bring the reminder window to the foreground in Windows 8 and above.
  • Fixed: Now you can't close the floating clock using the Alt+F4 hotkey.
  • Fixed: If you used the ampersand character (&) in the label for an alarm event, "_" was displayed instead of "&" when the reminder window popped up for that event.
  • Fixed: If the user presses the Enter key with the cursor in the date-time field, any changes made in that field are not saved.
  • Some other fixes and improvements.
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22 comments:

  1. Hey guys,

    I have been using your nice little cute program and it is one of the programs that i use daily. I do different things in a day and spare different times for them. And I have a problem with your software, that it does not include a PAUSE BUTTON!... or i can't find it anywhere. For example, i do 35 minutes of freewriting and after 20 minutes i need to go to toilet. I want to pause the timer, but nope, my peeing and taking a dump time - which can take ages sometimes - is included in my freewriting. I just want to pause my timer, while it is counting down and leave my table and when i come back i want to continue from the time i left.
    This pause button shouldn't be a rpoblem for you guys. I like your software and i want to go on using it, but without a pause button, this is not working so well. You can do it guys. Just a pause button. Yes, you can do it.

    Thanks in advance.

    Good day.

    Erkan

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  2. this software have portuguese language option ???

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  3. I was looking for a countdown widget to remind me to complete certain tasks before the day is up. I couldn't find any "top ten programs for yada yada yada" articles but found and downloaded this program off the bat after reading the reviews. Thanks for this! One feedback I have is the ability to add html links to the task labels. I'm using the timer to remind myself to draw, it'd be cool if I could have the link to the drawing site I use inside my "time to draw" label, and I could click it once the label/alert comes up.

    Thanks again!

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    1. Of course, after posting my comment, now I see that you can have a URL open with the alert. Apologies. I'll try that out.

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  4. Please add option automatically change color to red xx minute before countdown come to zero.

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  5. We need to be able to choose either weekdays or weekends only for recurring timers

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  6. This free countdown timer seems to have problems if a new alarm comes up before the old one is dismissed. For example, I have a weekly reminder to take out the trash, but this alarm is often not seen because I have another alarm that rings soon after indicating another need. As such, I often end up not taking out the garbage since I don't see this alarm - it has been overwritten by the new alarm. Can the free countdown timer mention all the alarms ringing, so I don't miss one?

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  7. i experienced that when i turn off my desktop for the day and i return the next morning, the countdown timer is off. why?

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  8. Can you add 2 features?
    1. Sort timer according to time that going to reach/end
    2. Set count down timer to actual time, like now+1hr, not manually count down (it will not be accurately if computer is shut down or program exit), and display time to reach/end like Count till timer, so people will know what is the time to reach/end.

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  9. I just downloaded this today. So far I'm liking it. However, when I select a sound other than the Bells1 which it was automatically set for, it plays both the bells and the selected sound. Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know a way to fix it? Thanks!

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  10. I am trying to use Free Countdown Timer & the Free Alarm Clock (both portable versions). They do collide on occasion with alarms going off close to each other. And even though they have their own separate folders; changes create a failure to save based on data.ini being used by something else. Each folder has an individual data.ini file & the location label each indicates correct folder for each file. Collision for this file is almost constant.

    Thanks for the effort & the freeware. It is useful. I will continue to experiment. Maybe delete one entirely. That is not really a solution, is it?

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  11. I constantly use this wonderful timer when doing battle with feminazis. https://youtu.be/3cUwt7rCgpI

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  12. I really enjoy this program as I have been using it daily for years. It would be really awesome if there was a way to organize the timers by category. Any chance we'll see this option in a future update?

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  13. Ноw RESET, START, STOP timer from command line, define timer? I can only use ADDTIMER without additional options.

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  14. Добавьте, пожалуйста, пункт (функцию) назначения цвета для запущенного, ожидающего и деактивированного таймеров соответственно. Например: Когда запущен - зелёного цвета, когда остановлен - без цвета, когда в ожидании - жёлтого.
    Так намного проще ориентироваться среди множества таймеров.

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  15. The stopwatch is buggy. Seconds randomly drop out, for example like this: 15 then 16 next 18. The error is stable, it does not need to be caught, it appears every time the program starts. Or it was done intentionally.

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  16. Can you please add a recurring option for the X day of every month.

    I have meetings that are the 2nd Tuesday of every month. but all I can enter is a date of the month, which doesn't work for me for monthly recurring meetings.

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  17. Can anyone let me know where the data for current reminders is stored? I can't find it in 'program data' or in the installation folder, would like to include the info in my sync program to keep all the machines in my LAN updated. Thanks.

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  18. Сделайте возможность, чтобы таймер сворачивался кликом мыши по рабочему столу, т.е. запустили таймер и кликнули по рабочему столу и таймер свернулся. Это удобно при частом использование таймера.Тоже самое можно сделать и для программы будильник.

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  19. Hi there,
    It wakes up my PC, but I can't hear anything until I've unlocked it.
    Only that the screen is on.
    I'm trying to make a new download again.
    .. hope that...
    Thanks you.

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