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alarm clock

Post by shiznatix »

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

sadly i have this condition where my body becomes imune to my alarm clock and now i am not able to wake up to the same alarm clocks that i have used before.

question is: does anyone know of a free alarm clock online that would do this for me: turn up the volume of my computer to the max automatically, have a snooze button, be able to play a mp3 to wake me up.

i hope somones does because i got class tomorrow at 8:00am and there is no way I will make it if I don't get a new alarm.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Here's what I used to do because I have that same condition...

I get familiar with the sound of my alarm clock, wake up hearing an awful racket.... get angry at the car alarm going off outside (half-asleep), then turn over and sleep through it. Later on I'll realise I slept through my alarm.

Okie doke.... strategy one (old)...

a) Look in your BIOS, find a setting for automatic power-on... set it for the time of your alarm.
b) Have winamp automatically start playing when it opens, set it to shuffle and ensure there's a long playlist in there
c) Add it to the startup files
d) Turn the volume up
e) Turn off PC and go to bed.... ;)

Method 2....

a) There's a plugion for winamp that can do that for you without all the fuss above! (Which do you choose?) :P

EDIT | Or you could just buy a radio-alarm-clock for about $10
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Get Task Scheduler to start winamp at 8am?
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Post by patrikG »

get an alarm clock with a radio. Cheap, easy & effective. :)
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Post by Deemo »

i have the same problem. something that fixed it briefly was that i created an alarm on my iPod. I then instructed it to begin playing Time by Pink Floyd (if you know the song, it begins with very load alarm clock noises), and connected it to my stereo system

I literally jumped from my bed when that went off 8O
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Deemo wrote:i have the same problem. something that fixed it briefly was that i created an alarm on my iPod. I then instructed it to begin playing Time by Pink Floyd (if you know the song, it begins with very load alarm clock noises), and connected it to my stereo system

I literally jumped from my bed when that went off 8O
Heh.... the noise at the start of that song sounds mor elike the old school fire alarms (the one's with the bells rather than sirens)... no wonder it threw you out of bed :)
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when i first started college I originally got an alarm clock with a rooster crowing, i mean,what could be more annoying?or so i thought..it turns out since my friends house used to have roostersthat crowed in the morning the first time the alarm went off I thought i was at my friend's house and the roosters were just going the hell off..after listening to tehm for an hour i decided to get up to go yell at them...then noticed i was in my dorm room..missed class too. :-/
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Post by John Cartwright »

Easy solution: go to bed erlier ;)

Myself I mysteriously wake up 1-3 minutes before my alarm ever goes off. The weird thing is, I have to wake up at different times depending on the day :\.. my mental alarm is ship shape.
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Post by hawleyjr »

Tiss Tiss Tiss,

You need to get Clocky

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/ ... 036052.php
Clocky rolls off your nightstand, bounces off your startled dog and finds a new place to hide once you press the snooze button. Maybe one day, we’ll have an alarm clock that just crawls on your chest and wets itself. We can dream, can’t we?
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Post by timvw »

Jcart wrote:Easy solution: go to bed erlier ;)

Myself I mysteriously wake up 1-3 minutes before my alarm ever goes off. The weird thing is, I have to wake up at different times depending on the day :\.. my mental alarm is ship shape.
Woow, i don't go to bed early... But somehow i got exactly the same ;) Well, in the cases i'm really drunk or really tired i sleep longer... way longer... but those days aren't worth to get out of bed anyway ;)

The beep-beep-buzzing gives me the creeps.. I'm happy i'm awake before the alarm clock ;) And i've got one with a cd-player in it... the only disadvantage is that it doesn't like to fly... ;)
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Post by John Cartwright »

lol this is funny, I have a cd alarm too.. the buzzing noise just angers me and makes me sleep longer. Yes, I am immune to buzzers.
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Post by dallasx »

Easy...

Get a somewhat long sound clip of a MACHINE GUN and blast that through winamp.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Radio-clock works for me, combined with the fact that it doesn't have snooze and it is on the opposite side of the room. :D
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

You know what... doesn't worry me anymore. I don't have start/finish times for my current job so I just get up at a *reasonable* time 8)
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Post by timvw »

JCart:

You wake up at the same time as me.. (A couple of minutes before the beep beep :p)..
Now you also run the tests... I'm becoming paranoia...
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