Digital Alarm Clock manual
User and Instruction Manual of Digital Alarm Clock Gadget
Description of Gadget
This can be used to preset Five Alarms with a small text memo, The Alarm will remind after set time elapses with musical sounds. It also shows the Time and date. The Alarms once set, repeat every day. When the user visits the page containing this gadget, it reminds him of the missed memos for the past three hours. Web Gadget for Google Homepage or Website. A study of the Alarm Clock Instructions Video may help understand points below.digital-alarm-clock The Project Page Add Gadget to Webpage
Controls and Display
A - Buttons
- Select Alarm - Click this to start the setting of the
Alarm Clock, The button lights up green
and remains lit for two minutes, this is the set mode (Figure-2). This
button will scroll the Alarm Number
on the left of this
button from 1-5 as you click repeatedly. Select the Alarm you
want to set.
After two minutes the setting mode ends automatically and the changes
you made are
saved. You can continue setting or modifying the alarms by clicking
this button again.
- Select Digit - Once an Alarm
Number is selected, set theAlarm
Timefor
that, Click this button to Select a Digit you want to set, A Grey Arrow (Figure-2) will appear
on the top
of the digits, it will move
left till the end and then move right as you click more.
- Scroll Value - Now that the Grey
Arrow is
above a particular Digit or the AM-PM indicator in Alarm Time, Click this button
to Increment or change the value. Now repeat
this for every Digit and the AM-PM, for setting the Alarm
Time
you want. Do
this by using the Select Digit and
Scroll Value Buttons as
explained.
- Save Memo - This Save button and Enter Memoin Figure-2 come to view only
when you are
setting the alarm, Key
the text into Enter Memo box and
press the Save Memo button. When
the Alarm goes off on a
later visit to the page (within 3hrs of set time) or on the Desktop at
exactly the
alarm time. The memo and time will
remind you the task.
- Enter Memo - When alarm is being set, this Text Edit Box Appears along with the a Save Memo button, Enter a short memo of Task to remind on Alarm.This is a memo to remind you what this alarm is for, like "Go to the Market".
- Music - This comes up, as soon as you have saved the Memo (Figure 3), there are 10 short tunes, 0-9, which can be played and chosen by pressing the button beside the tune number.
- Ok Done - This button is pressed to stop the Alarm
sound after you see the message or Hear the sound, it will not sound
again on that day. But if you make any new settings the Alarms within
the last three hours will sound again. This happen in Normal run mode.
B - Outputs
- Time Display - This shows the time, the hours and minutes
as per your computer clock, The AM-PM indication too.
- Alarm Time - This displays the Alarm Time that is
being set with four small orange digits and a small yellow AM-PM
display. In the Run mode it comes up, when alarm sounds.
- Alarm Number - This shows the Alarm number Being Set, When
an alarm sounds this will show the alarm that is playing.
- Seconds - This is the seconds display of the Actual time
on your Computer,
- Memo - This Show the Task or To-Do that the alarm was set for, like "Visit Dentist" , this will show with the Alarm Time and Alarm Number.
- Sound - The Music or Sound set, will be played when
Alarm turns on at the set Alarm
Time.
Working
After Starting up, The Alarm ClockTime
Display shows the time Hours, Minutes and
the Seconds display the seconds.
(Figure-4). The Set Mode is not active. A
Text display show the Day, Weekday, Month and Year. The Week Number of
the year also is shown. If the Alarm was set and cookies enabled in your browser, the Alarm sounds at the set time, even if you visit the Homepage within three hours of the set time, the Alarm sounds. If an alarm has been set at 1.00 PM and you visit the HomePage at 2.00PM it will Sound.
Alarms cannot be deleted, if you do not want an alarm set it for sometime in the Night when you have the computer off. New settings overwrite old.
Requirements
This Gadget requires Firefox
or Internet explorer Browser to operate
well. If Sound is enabled in your system, with System Volume and
External Volume Controls at Medium and the
browser plugin for your browser set correctly, the alarm music sounds
will be Audible. The computer Clock should be set correctly and the
Small
Battery in the Computer must be replaced when this clock
stops. This is a Hardware requirement and is not a problem most
computers. Computer's clock can be set
accurate using an atomic
clock server.All Alarm and note settings are lost when cookies are deleted from your browser, the settings you made are on your own computer browser.
Links
Bugs
- The three hours of alarm remind duration works oddly at the
12.00AM and 12.00PM vicinity, i am setting this right later. That means
if
you set the Alarm for Night 10.00 PM or 11.00 PM it will sound when you
visit the page at 12.10 Noon.
- The Cookies 18 will be brought down to Five or less in my next improvement, this way it will not use much Cookie space which is sparse.
The next update will take time, it may not be visible to you, you may
not need to make any changes or upgrade, it will happen in the
background.
User Feedback
Suggestion - Get rid of the number "shadows" in the background
of the clock. Put in colored skins, colored lettering [red, lavender,
green, orange, purple], colored borders, background, etc. for us to
adjust the clock. Allow us to CHOOSE these elements of design for
our desktop. -- EA -US
Complaint - The alarm clock is keeping correct time, but it
doesn’t sound off an alarm after being set. Do you have a
tutorial for users? - COG - US
Answer - Enable cookies, read this page cookies
enabled. If you still have problems i suggest you use the Firefox Browser.
Question - How do i delete an alarm? - AP
Answer - Just set a new alarm in its place, it will overwrite.
In case you dont
want to use an alarm, out of the five available, set it to 00.00 PM or
any time at night. The set mode turns off after 3 minutes
automatically, just press select again to start setting.
Suggestion - Thanks, I'm checking out your alarm. Anantha, why don't you post the User Manual address and the youtube video example in the description of your gadget? You will get a lot more users if you do. I will tell you how it works for me. - AL
Complaint - forget my first comment...this thing does not work. when I go to change
the first digit in time (say for 11:30am, the gray cursor will not
permit it the change from zero to any other number). And yes, I am
running Firefox and yes all the other numbers and AM/PM will change.
What good is a clock where you can't set it for 10 or 11am/pm...? this
was a big waste of time.... - WA
Answer - When you want to set the first digit to 1, ensure second digit is set
to 0,1,2, if second digit is 3 to 9 the first digit will be locked at 0
to avoid setting a time like 19.45 AM as this is a 12hr clock.
If you want to give a feedback or suggestion just Tell
Me.
Alarm Clock Gadget Page - iGoogle
Digital Alarm Clock Manual - Anantha Narayan delabs - Rev 1.1