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Waking up to headache-inducing buzzers and static-plagued radio stations can now be confined to your past. Alarm Clock Pro enables you to design your daily routine and perform various tasks automatically, such as starting your favorite iTunes playlist!

Product Description
Waking up to headache-inducing buzzers and static-plagued radio stations can now be confined to your past. Alarm Clock Pro enables you to design your daily routine and perform various tasks automatically, such as starting your favorite iTunes playlist!
With the sheer amount of functionality Alarm Clock Pro offers, it can easily integrate into nearly every aspect of your life. Speak or display favorite inspirational quotes randomly throughout the day, or even send them as text messages to your cell phone! Have important reminders, or even birthday cards, e-mailed to contacts. Record laps with the Stopwatch. Track time differences for your investment portfolio. Even use it to help cook dinner by using the timer!
In addition to Alarm Clock Pro's extensive list of programmable tasks, it also offers flexibility when it comes to timing alarms. Many solutions offer the ability to set alarms based on a specific date. However, Alarm Clock Pro can also initiate alarms based on a recurring monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, or even minutely schedule! Even start a countdown timer based on a specific time interval.
For both Mac OS X and Windows for the price of a single license, Alarm Clock Pro is one of the only affordable universal solutions for your needs. Download the free fully functional fifteen-day trial today, and judge for yourself.

Features
Alarm Events
* Send a text message to a cell phone
* Play an audio or video file
* Loop, fade, and auto-stop media files
* Increase media file playback speed
* Alter media file playback volume
* Loop media files via number or hour count
* Open documents and applications
* Play a web broadcast
* Play an iTunes playlist
* Play a random iTunes song
* Stop, Pause and Resume iTunes
* Open a website
* Send an e-mail with optional attachments
* Compose an e-mail
* Connect and disconnect the modem
* Send a serial command to the modem
* Start or stop the screensaver
* Take a screenshot
* Perform any shell command
* Display and/or speak text
* Bounce the icon in the dock (or flash it in the Taskbar on Windows)
* Display and/or speak a random line of text
* Automatically wake the computer from sleep (by schedule)
* Put the computer to sleep
* Startup the computer
* Shutdown the computer
* Logout
* Maximize system volume
* Maximize iTunes volume
* Unmute system volume
* Combos are allowed! Specify as many of these events per each alarm as desired.

Alarm Types
* Specific dates (ie. May 11, 2006 at 7:30 AM)
* Dynamic dates (ie. [Every Month] [All Days], [All Years] at 5:00 PM)
* Relative dates (ie. 1st and 3rd Monday and Friday of [Every Month] at 2:00 PM)
* Specified number of minutes past the hour (chimes)
* Timer alarms — alarms that execute after a specified amount of time

Alarm Tools
* Smart snooze — ring on an incrementally decreasing, or increasing, schedule
* Extend alarm execution date by a specified amount of time
* Create alarm templates (presets) for new alarms
* Auto launch Alarm Clock Pro when needed and/or on login
* View this month's current calendar — days with active alarms are underlined
* Alarm Menu — easy to access menubar (or taskbar) icon with alarm details

Miscellaneous
* Chime alerts can act like a Mindfulness Bell
* Calculate the difference between two time periods or time zones
* Stopwatch with lap counter
* View the current computer uptime
* Task list with priorities and random viewer that can speak items
* Create custom on-screen clocks with transparencies!
* Auto-open custom clocks or windows on launch
* Ring alarms at an offset from the system clock

Version 9.1.7 — August 6th, 2009
New Feature: Can now right click Timer alarms and show a Visual Timer with live countdown.
New Feature: Timers can now have their visual countdown displayed at startup.
New Feature: When snoozing an alarm, alarms will now close all media windows, stop iTunes (if applicable), and close all alerts.
New Feature: Now shows the alarm next ring date when configuring an alarm.
New Feature: Can now drag and reorder all alarm collections into any order desired (previously you could not reorder All Alarms).
New Feature: Reduced the amount of text for Relative Alarms if all weekdays enabled.
Bug Fix: Shows the correct alarm icon in the Summary pane of the alarm setup assistant.
Bug Fix: Corrected a crash and misconfiguration in the Alarm Clock Pro Helper.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with the collections list populating twice.