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Digital Alarm Clock

Digital Alarm Clock
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You can set Five Alarms with Ten Selectable Musical Sounds and a small Text memo. Digital Alarm Clock Web Gadget with Musical Alarms. This is an Alarm Clock Simulation, Eco Green is to inspire saving energy and keeping earth Green, Clean and last longer ... Alarm Clock Manual

This is an experimental gadget, usable but not easy. This gadget can demonstrate how difficult ergonomics is, when you need to press buttons in sequence to get an electronic gadget to perform.

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, repeats 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.

More Description

Digital Alarm Clock Web Gadget with Musical Alarms. This Web Gadget is for the Web-page or blog. You can set Five Alarms with Ten Selectable Musical Sounds and a small Text memo.

The simulation is as close as possible to a uC based Clock which you could build, The GUI is more like a electronic gadget than a Software Application. That should charge you to build your Alarm Clock today.

General Advice

This gadget has established usability problems. They were intended and demonstrated. It was an attempt to show the limits and strain associated with push button and key controls to operate an electronic gadget.

Many gadgets constrained with small size pose a challenge for the User Interface engineer. I myself have problems with the keyboard phones and remote control. This can be seen even in Monitor OSD controls in comparison to Analog Pot controls of old CGA/EGA Monitors.

Technology needs to make things simple. Keep controls minimum and Human Friendly means (analog). A human Being is a “Real Time Analog Gadget”.

This is an experimental gadget, usable but not easy. This gadget can demonstrate how difficult ergonomics is, when you need to press buttons in sequence to get an electronic gadget to perform.

Older Alarm Clock Notes

Old Version was ith Midi Sounds. I am still trying to fit the best functionality within the 210px-115px GUI real estate. Now with sound manager which uses flash, alarm sounds may be more consistent. Making various sound/video formats play on all browsers is a messy task. Flash makes it easy but you need a plugin.

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