Free Alarm Clock

[Ruby]

Free Alarm Clock

A free, full-featured and user-friendly alarm clock
This freeware program allows you to set as many alarms as you want. You can set one-time alarms or repeating alarms - activate only from Monday through Friday and give you a chance to sleep on the weekends.

Download the Installer and extract: The files are in the {app} subfolder; all that's really needed (for English) is the exe.
Homepage: http://freealarmclocksoftware.com/
Download: http://freealarmclocksoftware.com/FreeA ... kSetup.exe

Run it from your portable USB flash drive
You can put Free Alarm Clock on a flash drive and run it directly from there. In this way, all your alarms will always be with you. Simply run the program with parameter -PORTABLE, the settings will be stored in file Data.ini.

Run the program with the -portable parameter, you can manually enter driveless paths to mp3 files.

[webfork]

Free Alarm Clock

Looks useful, thanks for posting.

[carbonize]

Looks good but some things just strike a worrying chord with me. The first being who would buy a domain and hosting just for, what is, a very small and simple program? Also there's a lot of self SEO on that page. Or maybe I'm just overly paranoid these days.

[Ruby]

@carbonize, "overly paranoid"

1. Domain and Hosting is fairly inexpensive.
2. Do a google search for 'Free Alarm Clock' and this one is listed ~6th one down, and the keywords/content in the source is
[free alarm clock,alarm clock,portable alarm clock,alarm clock freeware], so I'm not sure what "Self SEO" you're talking about.

[carbonize]

Self referencing SEO is probably a better description which includes the domain name. Just wary as to why someone would go to such lengths to get a simple program out there. Too many years of working in security based occupations.

[webfork]

Domain and Hosting is fairly inexpensive.

It not ideal, but better when Softpedia or Download.com hosts the file as they put their reputation forward when they host files.

[Ruby]

They both do host the program, is that what you mean?

[webfork]

They both do host the program, is that what you mean?

Google fail. I searched for "Free Alarm Clock 2.2" and came up with a bunch of no-name sites. Direct search on Softpedia found it.

Here's a link for the paranoid:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-En ... lock.shtml

[carbonize]

They are third on Google for "free alarm clock" but lower down if you add the 2.2. I guess I just found it strange that someone would go to such lengths to try and get a free program a higher listing on Google.

[I am Baas]

Writes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ComfortSoftware\FreeAC

[joby_toss]

v2.3.0 portable is available:
http://freealarmclocksoftware.com/FreeA ... rtable.zip

Still creates that empty registry key that Baas mentioned.

Changelog: Version 2.3 (May 17, 2011)
* Added new interface languages: Swedish, Slovenian, Korean, Finnish, Hungarian, Chinese Traditional.
* Volume control behavior has been improved for systems with several sound cards (playback devices).
* Sound volume goes back to the default state after alarm activation.
* Snooze alarm with a single spacebar press.
* A new setting "Show clock in floating window" has been added.

[guinness]

Tested: Portable (V2.3)

Download: http://freealarmclocksoftware.com/

[webfork]

Tested: Portable

Excellent -- thanks.

[I am Baas]

Tested: Portable

Excellent -- thanks.

The "guinness green stamp" might confuse some.... Free Alarm Clock still writes (empty key) to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ComfortSoftware\FreeAC

[guinness]

I didn't get that empty Registry Key on my test machine.

Edit: Just tested again and still no empty key. Are you sure you tested the Portable version half way down the page?