Color your mood

March 1, 2008 11:40 pm

Finally, I released major update version of Minutes.

This version has four visual themes: wood pattern, black transparent, moss green and red cloth. You can launch any timers with your mood.

Also added its own dialog. It works without Growl. I think that Growl is used and well known by heavy Mac users as optional application. It is a little difficult for home users. I had deleted this plug-in so it got higher consistency.

New beep sounds I really like are created by Kazki Miura who is a composer and Cocoa programmer. These soft sounds match the visual themes. Included several loop sounds, you can use Minutes as alarm clock.

Anyway this is all new timer. Horatiu, try cooking again!

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Comments

  1. pketh March 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    YAY!! I love ya :)

    my favorites are the wood and the red one - very cool

    thanks!

  2. Dave March 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Beautiful!!! I’m so happy to have Minutes again, and to have the new themes and sounds… great work… you should have a PayPal donation link.

    Thanks,
    Dave

  3. pumpkin March 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    It’s gorgeus, but I miss the previous design.

    Thanks a lot :)

  4. David March 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Awesome. It’s a pleasure to use. The sounds and new themes are lovely.

    The only improvement I can imagine is a tooltip (or similar) to help the user understand what the actions icons in the bottom corners mean. It’s obvious to us but a first time user might be intimidated.

  5. Thomas March 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Beautiful, indeed. I like the furry green one most. The sounds are a nice addition as well. And while I use Growl, I prefer the new message window in this case.
    Thank you

  6. Gary March 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Fantastic, I so missed this widget when I upgraded to Leopard good to have it back again! Thanks for your effort in making such an elegant and useful tool.

  7. Eugene March 4th, 2008 at 8:14 am

    Thanks for making it work on Leopard!

    A suggestion for a future version: an option not to show the time the alarm will sound (e.g. 21:05).
    I have caught myself multiple times looking at Minutes instead of the clock widget and thinking it is displaying the current time.

  8. Jan March 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Thanks for this nice little widget! Love the usability and the simple design.

  9. Peter March 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    Wonderful, really nice to have Minutes back.
    Thanks a lot.
    I second the idea for a Paypal donation link

  10. digg is lame at boredon March 6th, 2008 at 10:42 am

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  11. Sebastian Parfitt March 7th, 2008 at 5:26 am

    love this widget. except that my faivorate colour is blue. im begging you to create a blueish theme!

  12. Terry March 8th, 2008 at 8:44 am

    First of all thanks for making this great widget!

    I was wondering though if you could add a “Chime on the hour” feature so a beep goes off every whole hour (12 PM, 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM etc.). More or less like the old Mac OS 9 feature.

    Currently I’m using the ProdMe widget for that purpose but your widget is much nicer and more refined.

  13. al March 9th, 2008 at 5:47 am

    huraaaayy! i love minutes and now i can use it again :) downloading now. good work.

  14. Peter Lindberg March 13th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    Great work! Thanks!

  15. Velrok March 15th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    Very nice! I searched weeks for exactly what you created here. It’s perfekt. Simple, usable shiny!

  16. Danno March 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Wow, I was looking for a little timer widget (gotta learn to stop browsing the internet all day) and you just knocked the design of this right out of the ballpark. I *love* the spinny dial timer.

    Thanks for making this.

  17. John Lascurettes April 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 am

    Nice work. I’m so happy to have this back in Leopard finally; and I’m loving the growl-like notification.

    A couple of suggestions:
    - Make the “It’s about time” notification optional (checkbox on the back?).
    - Allow for a mute or no-sound bell (because I find the “It’s about time” to be plenty!).

  18. Felix May 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Thank you so much for this! I love the functionality (really usefull for life) and it’s design (sleek, sweet and sexy)

    Thanks Kei!

  19. Doug May 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 am

    Thank you for Minutes! Beautiful, clean, brilliantly simple!

  20. Lorenzo May 4th, 2008 at 7:17 am

    Great little widget!

    I’d love for one thing to be possible though:
    set the alarm to keep going off, until switched off (like by clicking the “It’s about time” window)..

    Sometimes I miss the alarm sound and, since it doesn’t keep going, I forget about the alarm! :)

    Thanks for Minutes!

  21. rakenroll June 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    eats 100% cpu power while alarm. is it necessary? my machine getting louder than the chime! lol

  22. marica July 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 am

    I love Minutes! It’s just what I have been looking for all this time. Thank you so much! The user interface is also brilliant :-)

  23. Arjun Muralidharan July 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    This is an awesomely simple widget with great functionality. Great work!

    I am a bit disappointed about missing Growl though, because the current notification spawns a new window kind of thing that interrupts what I was doing completely, which is kind of intrusive behaviour.

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