{"id":215,"date":"2005-10-22T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=214"},"modified":"2005-10-22T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T10:03:28","slug":"testing-freeware-reminders-for-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2005\/10\/22\/testing-freeware-reminders-for-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing freeware reminders for Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went looking for a nice little freeware reminder app which would help me catch all those wonderful shows with my new toy<\/a>. Found a few, though many of them, such as Multi-Reminders<\/a> by Solway, were meant for remembering dates<\/a> (such as birthdays) and not exact times.<\/p>\n

But Week Scheduler<\/a> (use of frames seems to have destroyed the usability of the anchor, but it’s down there) by Johannes Wallroth<\/b> does take times, up to sixteen of them for each day<\/a>. It’s pretty plain in looks, nothing fancy, which is the way I like my apps. The blinking alert pop-up<\/a> is noticeable enough, though — even without the sound<\/a>, which I find annoying (though not the most annoying alert ever heard). You can disable it for all alerts or none.<\/p>\n

Though sixteen reminders per day are probably enough for me, it’s probably not the case with everyone else, so that’s a minor con — along with the fact that there’s no installer. I’ll give it four out of five stars.<\/p>\n

Free Notes<\/a> by Power Soft is a lot more colorful in its approach, beginning with the eye-hurting green dashboard<\/a> \"Free<\/a> it opens up above your tray on startup. Luckily, you can set it to minimized on startup using the options window<\/a>, and I applaud the ability to also tweak the looks of the <\/a>yellow post-it note like reminder popups<\/a> to my liking.<\/p>\n

In fact, had I not been given the choice of font to replace the default Comic Sans<\/a> used in the notes, I wouldn’t have stood for it. So four out of five for Free Notes too.<\/p>\n

So which is it? For now, I’m sticking to Free Notes, but like I said, I like my apps plain, so if Free Notes’ fancier looks get in the way of usability in any way<\/em>, I’m kicking it out for Week Scheduler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went looking for a nice little freeware reminder app which would help me catch all those wonderful shows with my new toy. Found a few, though many of them, such as Multi-Reminders by Solway, were meant for remembering dates (such as birthdays) and not exact times. But Week Scheduler (use of frames seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}