{"id":3659,"date":"2009-04-23T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-23T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T09:59:34","slug":"onlineclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/onlineclock\/","title":{"rendered":"OnlineClock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people are instinctive wakers who can rely on rising whenever, wherever they need to. That’s not me. My schedule is always based on Eastern Standard Time, even when I am traveling, so I’m a bit paranoid when it comes to hotel alarm clocks. By far, my favorite travel alarm is OnlineClock: The weight is just right (zero grams, if you’re carring a laptop); the price is perfect (free); and it’s easy to use. The interface is fantastically simple: a big digital clock. Just select a wake-up time from the drop-down list, and raise the volume on your laptop to whatever level won’t cause friction with the neighbors. When the time you’ve set arrives, your laptop sounds off like a conventional alarm clock. Brilliant! I’ve tried wrist watches, cell phones alarms, travel clocks<\/a> and extra-loud vibrating clocks, but OnlineClock’s interface is simple enough I can handle it even when jetlagged or dopey from too many hours awake, a standard my wristwatch doesn’t always meet. I don’t know how the site determines the correct local time, but it’s been accurate for me both around the U.S. and in Israel.<\/p>\n

Caveat: this works well for me because I typically go to sleep with an open laptop logging work-related messages, or playing an audiobook, etc. If you’re unable to keep a laptop or other web-browsing device open, this isn’t for you. Of course, there are other online clocks. Kukuklok<\/a> has a wide range of tones, if you prefer to wake to a bugle. Avnoy<\/a> has cool, artistic display, but it’s Flash-dependent and there’s too much information displayed on the screen for the mostly-asleep mode of my brain to handle. In addition, I’m sure there are plenty of resident alarm clocks that run as applications, but that’s one more piece of software I don’t need to keep current or transfer among machines, or care about cross-platform compatibility (company laptop is OS X, my personal machines usually run Ubuntu or other Linux variant).<\/p>\n

The simplicity of OnlineClock keeps me coming back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easy web-based alarm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}