Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Daily warning required. Date: 30 Aug 2015 16:45:59 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <1m9wxgo.o623j21f8a73sN%peter@pfjames.co.uk> <2015082909121811578-xxx@yyyzzz> <1m9zu0l.1uogc4b1dike6zN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> X-Trace: individual.net xhrPB86ItT7YS5IBeW7tPwtfS5J8EsWe38oBZwBGs5n7XiyALZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:jW8X5fhtB0arx/ODGIO8yCIxaTo= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:31503 On 2015-08-30, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2015-08-30 08:44, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: >> gtr wrote: >> >>> On 2015-08-29 10:10:17 +0000, Peter James said: >>> >>>> I need an app that will run on OS X v 10.10.5 that will give me a daily >>>> warning at 6.30 p.m each and every day to take medication that has been >>>> prescribed for me. >>>> I have to take it at this time. >>>> >>>> Any recommendations from anyone? >>> >>> I had to do something similar, twice a day, for months. I bought a >>> small kitchen timer that worked at up to 99 hours. Once the alarm went >>> off and was quieted, it was still set for 12 hours, rather than having >>> it default to zero. I used it very successfully. >>> >>> Certainly a computer will work well for such things, but when I wasn't >>> around the computer, or the computer was off, I found this way easier >>> to deal with. >>> >>> These days I might use the same thing but with my cell phone, which can >>> make a ceaseless racket when it goes off. Most of the computerly >>> things, like Calendar, simply do a single distraction alarm and then >>> quit. It's easily overlooked. >> >> It's impossible to ignore an alert dialog on the screen. > > I've been ignoring two of them all morning. Shit! You drew my > attention to them. Well he did say it was impossible. : D -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR