Alarm Clock of Justice

There was a time I stayed over at a friend's place... then I realised that I don't have an alarm clock... well I could've used my phone but since I had uni the next day, I was afraid of over-sleeping due to me sleeping thru the alarm... ><

So i searched for an Alarm Clock that i could use on my laptop... the Alarm Clock of Justice!

Sounds funny but rather awesome :3 although it could use a little updating since the last time the main website was updated seems to be in 2009... =S oh dearz... XD

Anyway, this alarm clock isn't any particular alarm clock... you can set your computer to sleep/hibernate and it can wake you and your computer up............. only downside is... if you have windows 7 (or maybe other operating systems), you have to disable the sleep timers ._." but it's not the program's fault... =P

Also, the user interface (what you see in the program) is rather straight-forward. You can set the time you want to wake up down to the second you want to wake up (O.o) and have a back-up alarm. You can set what days of the week you want your alarm playing and what you want to wake up to (ie. Music, movie, internet webpage/program.) If you muted your computer, it can unmute it (or else it'll be useless O.o how is it gonna wake you up unless you're already awake?!) and you can set what volume it should have, fade in volume, random volume, extreme random volume and/or alternate volume when it's active.

In addition to waking you and your computer up, you can make it display a reminder... I've never used it before but i reckon it's cool that it's implemented =] and as far as i know, i'm not sure how a backup alarm works... O.o SNOOOOOOOOOOOOZE! there's snooze involved! ^o^ you can personalize it to your liking as usual =P

Anyway, check out the site! It's really cool and has so much potential for heavy sleepers such as myself ^^;

Launchy

Here's something you can use if you don't like having icons all over your desktop for your most used items. It's called Launchy and it's quite a handy tool.

It indexes all your files and folders so that it can easily access them and launch them with a few keystrokes. I use it for pretty much everything I need to open except for folders because... well... i'm not exactly 100% sure but i believe you have to type in the full address path to open it. Eg. C:\Users\Kari
if you open a particular file more often than others, it will show your search faster and possibly with less keystrokes required
Eg. When you use Launchy and you want to use Firefox, you type in "firefox" at first. Then, you can type in less keystrokes "firef" and eventually, you may end up by just typing in "f"

Sometimes, you may not find what you wanted to launch when you type in something like say... "mine" when you want to play minecraft (lol....) but it comes up with minesweeper (XD)
when this happens, you just wait a few moments and a drop down list will appear, if minecraft is there, you select it and launch it. those keystrokes will be saved for a faster access the next time you want to launch that program.

Sometimes~ there may even be times when you type in the full name of the program that you want and it doesn't show up.