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  Daily warning required. peter@pfjames.co.uk (Peter James) - 2015-08-29 11:10 +0100
    Re: Daily warning required. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-29 11:08 +0000
      Re: Daily warning required. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-08-29 12:17 +0100
        Re: Daily warning required. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-29 11:52 +0000
          Re: Daily warning required. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 08:33 -0400
            Re: Daily warning required. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-29 07:50 -0700
              Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-29 15:56 +0000
                Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-30 23:52 +1200
                  Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-30 16:44 +0000
              Re: Daily warning required. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 17:36 -0400
                Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-29 22:08 +0000
                  Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-29 18:18 -0400
                    Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-29 22:23 +0000
                    Re: Daily warning required. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-08-30 01:53 +0000
                      Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:50 -0400
                        Re: Daily warning required. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-08-30 15:06 +0000
                Re: Daily warning required. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-29 18:01 -0700
                  Re: Daily warning required. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 21:03 -0400
                    Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-30 01:51 +0000
                  Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-29 18:23 -0700
                    Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-30 01:53 +0000
                      Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-29 23:13 -0700
                      Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-31 00:44 +1200
                    Re: Daily warning required. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-29 21:45 -0700
                      Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-29 23:14 -0700
                        Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-31 00:44 +1200
                          Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-30 08:25 -0700
                      Re: Daily warning required. super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2015-08-30 01:21 -0500
                        Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:44 -0400
                    Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:57 -0400
                  Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-30 01:50 +0000
                  Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:42 -0400
                Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-31 00:38 +1200
                  Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:52 -0400
                    Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-31 13:58 +1200
                Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:55 -0400
          Re: Daily warning required. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-08-29 14:40 +0100
            Re: Daily warning required. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-29 17:40 +0000
      Re: Daily warning required. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 07:46 -0400
    Re: Daily warning required. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 07:46 -0400
    Re: Daily warning required. Philo D <doozy@earthling.net.invalid> - 2015-08-29 07:45 -0600
      Re: Daily warning required. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-29 07:51 -0700
      Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-29 15:57 +0000
    Re: Daily warning required. Ned Mantei <ned.mantei@biol.ethz.ch> - 2015-08-29 15:45 +0200
    Re: Daily warning required. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-29 07:50 -0700
    Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-29 10:57 -0400
      Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-29 15:58 +0000
    Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-29 15:55 +0000
    Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-29 09:12 -0700
      Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-31 00:44 +1200
        Re: Daily warning required. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-30 09:56 -0400
          Re: Daily warning required. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-30 16:45 +0000
        Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-30 08:26 -0700
          Re: Daily warning required. jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-08-31 13:58 +1200
    Re: Daily warning required. peter@pfjames.co.uk (Peter James) - 2015-08-29 18:55 +0100
      Re: Daily warning required. peter@pfjames.co.uk (Peter James) - 2015-08-31 07:15 +0100
        Re: Daily warning required. Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-08-30 23:41 -0700
    Re: Daily warning required. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-08-29 18:52 +0000
    Re: Daily warning required. Piso Mojado <conserje@trapeador.net> - 2015-08-30 13:01 -0400
      Re: Daily warning required. gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-30 11:36 -0700
      Re: Daily warning required. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-08-31 07:37 +1000
      Re: Daily warning required. peter@pfjames.co.uk (Peter James) - 2015-08-31 07:11 +0100

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#31396

In article <1m9wxgo.o623j21f8a73sN%peter@pfjames.co.uk>, Peter James
<peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Peter

I use Calendar for this... add an alert to this item.  My OSX Calendar
is synced via iCloud with my iPhone.  So even if I am not near my
computer, I hear the alert from the iPhone.

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#31405

In article <290820150745117394%doozy@earthling.net.invalid>, Philo D
<doozy@earthling.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <1m9wxgo.o623j21f8a73sN%peter@pfjames.co.uk>, Peter James
> <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> > Peter
> 
> I use Calendar for this... add an alert to this item.  My OSX Calendar
> is synced via iCloud with my iPhone.  So even if I am not near my
> computer, I hear the alert from the iPhone.

Bingo!

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#31414

On 2015-08-29, Philo D <doozy@earthling.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <1m9wxgo.o623j21f8a73sN%peter@pfjames.co.uk>, Peter James
><peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>> 
>> Peter
>
> I use Calendar for this... add an alert to this item.  My OSX Calendar
> is synced via iCloud with my iPhone.  So even if I am not near my
> computer, I hear the alert from the iPhone.

Same here. 

You can also do repeating reminders in *drum roll* the Reminders app. : D

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#31397

On 29-08-15 12:10, Peter James wrote:
> 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?
>
> Peter
>


One easy possibility would be to set an "event" in the Calendar program 
and set it to repeat every day. You can then set a notification, which 
can include a sound, at the time of the event or just before. This kind 
of notification will certainly be noticed if you are in the same room 
with the computer. Others have mentioned "alarm" programs, which might 
give an even more noticeable sound.

Ned

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#31403

In article <1m9wxgo.o623j21f8a73sN%peter@pfjames.co.uk>, Peter James
<peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:

> 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?

Calendar, which is included with Mac OS X.

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#31407

On 2015-08-29 06:10, Peter James wrote:
> 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?

OS X includes

	Reminders

	Calendar

Will both do it.  I'd tend to the former rather than the later for this 
purpose.  (I use it to make sure I take out the trash, recycling each 
week; pay various bills, cancel various contracts, ...)

In both cases, properly sync'd, the reminder will also sound on your 
iPhone, iPad, iPod, Watch if you're so equipped.

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#31415

On 2015-08-29, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-08-29 06:10, Peter James wrote:
>> 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?
>
> OS X includes
>
> 	Reminders
>
> 	Calendar
>
> Will both do it.  I'd tend to the former rather than the later for this 
> purpose.  (I use it to make sure I take out the trash, recycling each 
> week; pay various bills, cancel various contracts, ...)
>
> In both cases, properly sync'd, the reminder will also sound on your 
> iPhone, iPad, iPod, Watch if you're so equipped.

Yep. I use both for various things.

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#31412

On 2015-08-29, Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
> 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?

The built-in Calendar and Reminders apps will do that.

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#31416

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.

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#31484

gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> 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.
-- 
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#31493

On 2015-08-30 08:44, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> 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.

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#31503

On 2015-08-30, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-08-30 08:44, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> 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

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#31501

On 2015-08-30 12:44:16 +0000, Jamie Kahn Genet said:

> It's impossible to ignore an alert dialog on the screen.

Unless you're not at the screen.

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#31567

gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

> On 2015-08-30 12:44:16 +0000, Jamie Kahn Genet said:
> 
> > It's impossible to ignore an alert dialog on the screen.
> 
> Unless you're not at the screen.

That's what a mobile device is for. Have it play an alert and/or vibrate
to get your attention. Anyway, I wasn't talking about missing an
on-screen alert fullstop. I was talking about missing it while looking
at the screen. If you've shifted alert dialog position away from the
centre of the screen, then yes - perhaps it is possible to miss them.
But I have iCal popping one up dead centre on my main screen - and that
is impossible to ignore _on my screen_ :-)

I also have Chrome (with and without systems with a Calendar app) set to
keep a pinned tab of Google Calendar open, so when an an alert happens
Chrome and that tab with it's alert are brought to the front. Between
that, iCal, and Calengoo's alert on my iOS device, I'm well covered.
-- 
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#31420

Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Peter

Thanks for all of the replies and suggestions.  I'll try "Reminders".

Peter
-- 
It is necessary for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Attributed to Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797

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#31604

Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:

> Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> > Peter
> 
> Thanks for all of the replies and suggestions.  I'll try "Reminders".
> 
> Peter
Reminders seems to work OK, and I've got the warning synched and
repeated on my iPad.
However, my phone is not an iPhone so I can't synch it to the Mac.  Or
can I?

Peter

-- 
It is necessary for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

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#31608

In article <1ma0c21.o62bwu19lnebtN%peter@pfjames.co.uk>,
 peter@pfjames.co.uk (Peter James) wrote:

> Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > > Peter
> > 
> > Thanks for all of the replies and suggestions.  I'll try "Reminders".
> > 
> > Peter
> Reminders seems to work OK, and I've got the warning synched and
> repeated on my iPad.
> However, my phone is not an iPhone so I can't synch it to the Mac.  Or
> can I?
> 
> Peter

Not using Mac iCloud programs, no.  I don't trust iCloud for anything, 
so I don't use it.

Instead, I use a 3rd party app BusyCal which syncs to Google Calendar 
(and your local Apple Calendar but not to iCloud).

There may be Reminder apps for Android that sync to iCloud and the Apple 
ecosystem, but good luck finding them.

Your options are "get an iPhone" or switch to a more ubiquitous 
Android/Google solution on MacOS.  I use Wunderlist which can publish to 
Google Calendars but for simple reminders, just forget your phone or use 
a Pill Box timer.

With my mom, it was a constant fight to insist she take her meds on the 
recommended schedule.  She kept insisting she took them when I was there 
and know she didn't.  And as she's gotten older and the med schedule has 
gotten more complex, she clearly can't cope with it herself.  Short of a 
caregiver, we found something like this wasn't much help:

http://www.epill.com/multiplus.html

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#31425

In message <1m9wxgo.o623j21f8a73sN%peter@pfjames.co.uk> 
  Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Calendar and Reminders will both do this.

-- 
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terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?

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#31504

On 8/29/15 6:10 AM, Peter James wrote:
> 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?
>
> Peter
>

Great troll dude. they all fell for it! I mean how effin' brain-damaged 
do you have to be not to be able to remember to pop a pill at the same 
time every day...

-- 
Let's be clear: The S. Carolina shooting of blacks was all about racism. 
This Virginia and Texas shootings of whites are  all about........ guns.
					- @weknowwhatsbest

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#31517

On 2015-08-30 17:01:02 +0000, Piso Mojado said:

>> Any recommendations from anyone?
> 
> Great troll dude. they all fell for it! I mean how effin' brain-damaged 
> do you have to be...

To read your slime?  Pretty "effin' brain-damaged".

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