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Sleep.FM: Your Online Social Alarm Clock

Tired of waking up on the annoying ring of your alarm clock? Check out Sleep.FM. Instead of waking up on a wake up tune that you set on your alarm clock or mobile phone, you can now wake up and be informed about the weather condition on your area flight status, birthday wishes, go back to sleep messages and more.

With Sleep.FM, you can setup multiple alarms for the day. It also allows you to choose from a male or female voice to wake you up. Since the alarm clock is online, if your internet goes down, they will play a back-up alarm for you so you will not have to worry about oversleeping when your internet service goes down. I’m still not sure how effective the online alarm clock when your computer hangs or your browser crashes but this is surely an interesting concept.

Sleep.FM can be useful in setting up alarms when you are working on your computer. You can set alarms for specific tasks to help you improve your online productivity.

New Sleep.FM features:

• Today’s Forecast that covers your weather conditions for the next 12 hours.

• Suggestion in various weather announcements, regarding what you need for the day; umbrella or boots!

• Location detection based upon your IP address; no zip code entry needed!

• Added an additional voice – a familiar radio voice who is heard in all major US markets.

Tags: alarm clock, online, Sleep.FM, Weather Forecast

Turn your iTunes into an Alarm Clock

iSnooze is a small and simple Windows application that lets you use your iTunes as an alarm clock. Just download the exe file and install in your Windows machine and you can start setting up your wake up times. The program will sit nicely in your icon system tray and features Spacebar activated snooze, configurable snooze time, gradual volume increasing, multiple alarm schedules, playlist selection, temporary pausing when you reach your computer to give you time to shut it off.

Alarm Clock 2 is for the Mac OS-X users. It functions pretty much the same as iSnooze with some differences in features and keyboard commands. It also utilizes Mac features like the Apple Remote. The Alarm Clock 2 features: Wake up to any song, playlist or podcast in your iTunes libaray, wake up peacefully with “easy wake” – a configurable option that slowly increases the volume of your alarm over time, Can wake your computer from sleep and hit snooze with your apple remote.

Source [LifeHacker]

Tags: alarm clock, freeware, itunes, mac os-x, Windows