Marxio Timer
on April 24, 2009 at 10:33 pmI came across this via a Lifehacker article and it’s super handy. Marxio Timer is a very, very flexible and useful timer. It’s pretty much what Windows Scheduler ought to have been. I’ve heard it compared to cron for Linux but I’ve never used it.
I’ve used it for a couple of things. We’ve been listening (as previously noted) to the Narnia stories as we fall asleep and I didn’t want the computer sitting on all night. I set it up to put the computer on Hibernate after an hour which worked like a charm.
Due to a sick day today, Amy wanted the alarm turned off so I made a bit of a change. I set the laptop up so it wouldn’t power down overnight and used the ‘resume playback’ feature of Songbird with Radiohead’s OK Computer as the playlist. I’m looking forward to seeing what other uses I can find for it.
I use it to disable screen saver that annoys me much when watching movies. I also find very useful how you can set this “scheduler” in Marxio Timer. Even windows scheduler is not so flexible as Marxio Timer. Run once, every, after, repeat, no repeat, idle time, cpu usage etc etc. Marvelous software.
To the author – what is compared to Linux cron ? Even cron cannot do as much as MT