It's an alarm clock, which on the surface isn't that exciting - but wait! Let me explain why I wrote it so you can check it out. It has some of the nice bells and whistles that most alarm clocks have - multiple alarms, progressive, vibration, multiple days. But that's not the secret sauce...
I didn't write it because the world needs another alarm clock. I wrote it because the way time is set on mobile devices bothered me from the first second I set the time on my Android phone five years ago. I had a serious head injury, or it would have been released forever ago. The interface to set the time looks like this:
Touch the H to set the hour hand. Touch the M to set the minute hand. I got tired of my hand blocking my view to what I was setting, and having to touch-touch-touch-touch-touch something until it was the right number.
I tried to make the dialog to dismiss the alarm easy to see through blurry eyes, so I laid out the snooze horizontally, with a bigger Z, and made the wake button vertical. I also made the snooze number big and visible.
I'll add some more features to it, like a countdown timer, stopwatch, and a date interface, and then do some other things with it that'll hopefully make working with mobile devices more fun and more intuitive.
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