GigAlarm 1.34 Beta 3 is a Digital Clock & Timer product from sinnercomputing.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, GigAlarm allows you set one-time or recurring reminders. Once set, an alarm can be set to auto-repeat on set days or by a time offset. The alarm can be either a wave file playing (random or selected), a program/file running (also random or selected), changing the background wallpaper, a window or various Windows shut down options. It has various other options including search, snooze control, variable alarm cut off, repeating sounds, boot up alarms, countdown, variable pause, variable alarm warning, missed alarm notification, and more.
GigAlarm is a multipurpose alarm / reminder program, capable of running files and playing multimedia files (including MP3s) to notify you of events. But GigAlarm is capable of many other alarm actions including changing the background wallpaper, syncing the system clock via the internet (using RFC-868 or RFC-2030), shutting down / restarting / logging off Windows, scheduled hibernation resume, wave file playing (random or selected) and software / file running (also random or selected). GigAlarm is a multi-threaded programs (i.e. it takes advantage of multi-processor and hyper threaded machines) and can schedule millions of different events. Alarms can be programmed to auto-repeat by a time offset (such as every 5 hours or even a random time) or a set time after boot. Alarm repeats can also be set to miss certain days.
Various views are supported, including next alarms in order, deleted alarms, all alarms, a large view mode for across the room viewing and a calendar preview mode. The preview mode even shows the Windows-Up Time, World Times and your daily bio-rhythm!
Feature List:
* Millions of alarms can be set.
* Alarms that happen while GigAlarm is not running (or if the computer is off or suspended) will be shown at a later time. (This feature can be disabled.)
* Alarms can be set to second resolution and can be;
* A specific time that happens once only.
* A specific time and then repeat after a certain number of second, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years.
* A random time offset based on the last time the alarm executed.
* A specific time offset based on when GigAlarm starts. (If GigAlarm is set to auto-start this can be used to set a software to start a few minutes after the computer boots to reduce system load on start-up.)
* A specific time and then set to auto-delete.
* Repeating alarms can also be set to miss certain days.
* Alarms can be one of many different actions. Aside from the option of showing some text to tell the user what the alarm is for the alarm itself can;
* Play a wave file, a MP3, or any other common Windows sound file. This file can be set specifically, or can be picked randomly from a selected folder. Multiple files can be specified and sounds can also be set to repeat.
* Run any file of any type via its default handler, with or without a warning. Multiple files can be specified.
* Sync the computers time via the internet.
* Randomly change the computers desktop wallpaper from a selected folder using BMP, GIF or JPEG images.
* Perform a power status change event, such as a shutdown, restart, log- off, suspend, or hibernation.
* Resume the computer from a suspended or hibernated power condition.
* Remotly restart another computer.
* Multiple alarms can be set for the exact same time.
* Alarms can be set to time-out and close after a set amount of time.
* Alarms can be set to wake the computer prior to the alarm action.
* Individual alarms can be set to not be executed later if they are missed while the computer is off, or you can set all alarms to act this way.
* When using GigAlarm as a wake-up alarm you can use a mode that asks relatively simple maths questions to ensure that you are at least partially awake.
* There is a log option so you can have a record of what GigAlarm does.
* Capable of running in window or tray mode.
* In tray mode you can check what the next alarm is and when it will happen via the tray icon. It shows information on two alarms and can display either the time the alarm will happen or how far away the alarm is.
* In the windowed mode the view can be an alarm list showing alarms in time order or in a sort-able list, a large view of the next alarm, a clock, and also a split list with a time display and a calendar.
* The the split list/calendar view can also show the windows up time, three world times, the next scheduled system wake time and your daily bio-rhythms!
Wallpaper Changer:
* GigAlarm will select wallpapers from a selected directory and will use images from that directory as well as sub-directories.
* By re-naming sub-directories a some images can be given priority over others.
* GigAlarm can use BMP, JPG and GIF files as wallpapers.
* GigAlarm will rescale (not stretch) images and center them using either a selected resolution or the current screen size. When calculating screen size the taskbar size and position is taken into consideration.
* The boot wallpaper can be set as well. (This function requires that the boot screen is actually shown. Windows 2000 will show it, but in most cases Windows XP will only show it for a short time. The Windows XP "Welcome Screen" hides it.)
* There is a test function and wallpaper changes can be logged, this includes the image name.
Quick Shutdown:
* GigAlarm has an optional option in the tray menu that enables a quick shutdown, or any other power event.
* Shutdowns can be set to warn for a set time and then if not cancelled perform the action, ask for confirmation, or just shutdown instantly.
* The menu can display a few or all shutdown actions, depending on what ones you use.
* Shutdowns can also be scheduled to happen up to 2 weeks minutes in the future. If the shutdown event is a hibernation or a suspension a wakeup time can also be set to any time up to 2 weeks after the hibernation/suspension. Scheduled shutdowns can be cancelled if you change your mind.
* Shutdowns can be performed with "force" if you have programs that do not close fast enough.
Pad File Generator
* GigAlarm can be used to generate highly random files that are suitable for encryption purposes.
* Files are generated by using clock jitter techniques. For the more technical users, the files are generated calling the CPU function RDTSC with the selected period. The lower bits (what bits depend on the selected quality) are then buffered and written to the PAD file when the selected size is reached, or when GigAlarm is shutdown. There is no filtering of "bad" results.
* The speed/quality of the results can be changed depending on your needs, as can the frequency of saving the file. Please note that this function is not fast.
* Testing results with programs such as ent indicates that the output is good. We have two example files available for testing, a 32-bit one and a 4-bit one. (The lower the bit rate the higher chance of it being a good file.) Both of the files were set on a sample rate of 10,000 milli-seconds.
* These files are suitable for use with our encryption tools CryptIt and XorIt.
Idle Shutdown
* GigAlarm can monitor your computer usage and power off your computer if you are not using it.
* All power states are supported, including shutdown, suspend and hibernate.
* If the shutdown event is a hibernation or a suspension a resume time can also be set to any time up to 999 minutes after the hibernation/suspension. Thus you can set your computer to hibernate when you are not using it, and it can resume after a few hours and download new EMail.
* Shutdowns events can be logged. The license of this windows utility software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Windows Utility software.