Alert Program

[Dumac]

Sorry, accidentally hit enter.

FIXED: Is there a free program that you can download into which you can program alerts and times, and then the program can alert you at those times?

 

[nweaver]

Outlook, but it's not free...
Cron job to open mplayer and play an mp3, (scheduled task/media player for windows)

 

[cker]

Remind? (Unix-only, probably works w/ MacOS.)

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_remind.php

Timed reminders, pop-up alarms, various output formats and holiday-awareness, and you can use a front-end or a scripting language. A page detailing one person's use of remind and some other Unix tools to implement the Getting Things Done time management / task management philosophy is detailed Here ( <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://homepage.mac.com/sjrey/iblog/C1700319483/E748466129/">http://homepage.mac.com/sjrey/iblog/C1700319483/E748466129/ ) </a>