![]() The Apple calendar is the place you go for all things schedule-related. You can set an alarm on a Mac in the following ways: Using the Apple calendar So until next time, this is Gary with MacMost Now.What are some ways to set an alarm on a Mac? So give it a try there's a free fifteen-day trial period, and it's twenty bucks after that to continue using it. I also like that you can have recurring events, say have something happen every hour or every other hour, just to remind you to take a break, or to perform a certain task that you need to be doing all day. I like that you can set little alarms that go off later in the day or the next day, without having to clutter your calendar with events so it makes it easier to remind yourself to do certain things. It has a task list manager here, where you can create tasks and prioritize them. You could have it display clocks on the screen that float above everything else-come in handy. You can bring up, quick, Stopwatch, which could be a productivity tool, you can have it look up time zones for you. And in addition to that Alarm Clock Pro has a lot of special features, for instance a full calendar that shows you future alarms. You could also have it shut down the computer on a regular basis, for instance, shutting it down at night or restarting it once a day as well. You can have it play a multimedia file or something on iTunes, to use it as a regular alarm, have it wake you up in the morning if your Mac is in the same room where you sleep. You could have it log you out in the evening automatically. Perhaps there's a Web site that you rely on for information, or for some sort of productivity regimen that you've got, and you can have it that you are at a certain time or at a regular interval. ![]() If there's an email that you want to send in the future, you could have it open up mail and have it pre-populate with recipient, subject and message, so that you could send that message. You can have it show alert or display an alarm notice, maybe to tell you to take a break from work every once in a while. Adjust system volume: you could set that so your Mac's system goes down at night and goes back up in the morning, that way you might not hear incoming mail messages, things like that, while you're trying to sleep. So here's some ideas of what you could do here. So you have to be careful when using it in those situations. But there are some situations where it won't work, for instance, if you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro and you actually close it then you can't start it up and start the program running. So one of the issues here is if your Mac is asleep or it shut down, the Power Management option will allow it to wake up or start up so the alarm can sound. In addition to that you can set it to be a private alarm so it can show up on your list, allow it to ring multiple times or just do it once, and "Power Manager Integration", which basically says if you set an alarm, but your Mac goes to sleep it'll wake it up so that it can sound the alarm. You can also set some exclusions-so have a task that performs regularly, but have it not perform on a certain date. Then under "Actions", you can set what happens when the alarm goes off. So for instance you can set it to go off at an interval, like every five minutes for instance. You can also set it to go off weekly, or hourly, or on a specific timer. For instance, you can set it to go off at a specific date and time. Now you can name your alarm and set it to go off when you want to. You can add a new alarm by clicking "New" there, and you get the assistant to set it up. So while alarm clock software might not seem that exciting, Alarm Clock Pro's ability to have recurring events trigger things at specific times can be very powerful. On today's episode, let's take a look at Alarm Clock Pro. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 461: Alarm Clock Pro at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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