Clockwise 1.2
Device: Mac OS
Category: Productivity
Price: $6.99, Version: 1.1 -> 1.2 (iTunes)
Description:Clockwise is a minimalist and easy-to-use status bar application that stays out of your way while triggering all sorts of useful actions and alerts.
Clockwise enables you to schedule alerts in a very intuitive manner: you specify the time or duration, specific days, weeks or even months. Clockwise also offers you the possibility to organize events in folders and filter events with powerful smart folders.
Clockwise's core functionality resides on events and actions. For example, you can set an alarm clock so your mac wakes you up every day to your favorite tune - with a different wake time for weekends. Or you may want to open a website every week to check its latest contents. If you need to take pills for a week before lunch, want a picture of your room emailed to you every ten minutes, or simply want to think of the pizza when it is ready, Clockwise will remember and do it so you won't have to. You could even have Clockwise read a dictionnary out loud during your sleep, or tweet your mac's CPU temperature!
Features:
- Easily access Clockwise on the menu bar
- Experience a simple yet powerful interface
- Add alarm, timer and shortcut-based events
- Fully describe on which days an event can trigger
- Add any number of actions to events
- Organise events by folders
- Filter events with smart-folders
- Disable events temporarily
- Start at login autommatically
- Follow help pages that fully describe each feature
- Enjoy full Retina display support
Actions available for each event:
- Text alert (speak the text and/or show an alert through Clockwise, Growl or your mac's own Notification Center)
- Tweet text to the Twitter account set on System Preferences
- Set volume & brightness levels
- Flash screen
- Play system sounds
- Control iTunes playback
- Open files, folders, apps and internet addresses
- Run shell scripts, AppleScript files or Automator workflows
- Send an email, with optional screenshot and/or iSight picture as attachments
- Save screenshots or iSight pictures to files
The 'Alert', 'Tweet' and 'Send email' actions use text entered by the user, but they can also read text from a file instead. This allows for some complex workflows such as having a script output some text to a text file, that is then read by the 'Tweet' action to tweet the file's contents. In this way you can, for example, tweet the output of any script.
Clockwise comes with a library of scripts that can be used with the 'Run user script' action and extend Clockwise's abilities much further:
- Sleep, logout, restart and shutdown your mac
- Control the screensaver
- Quit apps
- Perform keyboard shortcuts
- Empty the trash
- Start Time Machine backup
- Tell Mail to check for new mail
- Unmount all drives
- and more...
Your mac must not be sleeping for Clockwise to trigger events. Clockwise offers an option that prevents idle sleep (turn it on in the preferences), although that does not prevent user-induced sleep (closing the lid or choosing Sleep from the Apple menu).
Clockwise supports action plugins. If you're familiar with mac programming be sure to read the help pages in order to get started.
One last note: Clockwise is meant to be useful. For questions or features you'd like to see in the future, you may reach us at act.prods@gmail.com
What's New
The second update to Clockwise is out! This new version brings major changes and improvements.
New:
- Brand new interface, designed to look cool and be simple
- Tweet action! Much like the 'Alert' action, the Tweet action uses text you enter to tweet it automatically to the Twitter account set on your system preferences
- Clockwise now supports various SMTP connection types when sending an email with the 'Send email' action
- Clockwise now allows various recipients for the same email when sending an email with the 'Send email' action
- Events now have a new, very useful option: 'Enable delayed triggering'. This option allows an overdue event (that couldn't trigger on time because the computer was asleep or Clockwise wasn't running) to run right after the computer is opened or Clockwise is launched, even though it's past its trigger time.
Changed:
- On the 'Alert', 'Tweet' and 'Send email' actions, you can now have Clockwise optionally read the text from a file when running the action. This allows for some really cool workflows, such as having a script that outputs text to a file that is then tweeted to your tweet account.
As always, this update comes with a ton of small under the hood improvements. It also squashes some bugs, which is always a good thing!
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