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Kirby Alarm is a completely free alarm and task scheduler that will pop up a note, or run a program, or play a sound, or send an email at user defined intervals.
Various options are available to set alarms/programs to run every x minutes/hours/days/months/years, or the last Friday in the month, or the last day in the month. You can define intervals such as every 5 minutes, every other day, every second Tuesday of the month, or Monday and Tuesday of every fornight at a given time.. Along with the ability to define intervals, you can also set run times. For example, you could schedule a task to run every 5 minutes but only between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m
Other powerful features are ‘skip missed alarms’ and ‘watch file’ options
The Skipped Missed Alarms option is for when your computer is switched off. The next time Kirby Alarm is run the missed alarm will be run!! Very handy for scheduled backups when the power goes off at the scheduled time!!
The Watch File option is for conditional execution of the alarm based on the date/time/or size of a file. This allows Kirby Alarm to interact with other programs. For example, you want Kirby Alarm to execute a batch file to back up your data, but cant start the backup until the days end process in another application has finished. What do you do? Sure you can kind of guess when it will be finished, but you cant always be certain that it has, and you end up with a dud backup.
If the other process can update a file (we will call this the watch file) when days end has finished, then you can set up Kirby Alarm to start checking for a change in the date stamp of the watch file. Every 5 minutes (or whatever recurrence type you choose) Kirby Alarm will check the watch file and ONLY WHEN the date stamp (note other conditions are also available) has changed will Kirby Alarm execute the batch file. |
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