Minutes: Great Countdown Widget

Posted by Nick Cotton on 03/15/07 in Applications, Organization, Widgets

Minutes is a great new widget from the developers of the Shiira web browser. In fact, I came across it while looking up info on the Shiira project. Minutes is a countdown timer widget. It is extremely small, easy to use and surprisingly feature packed. To set the timer, just turn the knob to the desired number of minutes, the minimum is 1 and the max is 600 (fair enough as I think no-one should ever be sitting at their computer for more than 10 hours).

Back of the Minutes widget
When the timer reaches zero, Minutes can be set to stop or start an iTunes playlist, open a file, or put the computer to sleep. You can also set the timer to repeat, a very useful feature that works well alongside the Growl integration. For example, if you needed a notification every hour, half hour, or even 10 hours, this would be a perfect solution.

For me, Minutes is a great combination of style and functionality. Check it out here!

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William said on

March 15th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Looks cool!
I just wish we’d see an update to Shiira. If they squashed those bugs I would switch from Safari.

Sherb said on

March 15th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

I like the look of this.

Nick Cotton said on

March 15th, 2007 at 11:57 pm

William, I totally agree with you, I’m pretty sure it’s still being worked on as you can find the nightly builds online somewhere.

Louis said on

March 16th, 2007 at 2:50 am

I didn’t want Minutes to alert me using iTunes or to put my computer to sleep. And I don’t use Growl. So I was left with the option of opening a file. But what file would be suitable as a notification?

Finally found out I could use Quicksilver. I have an action to display a text in “Large Type”, and then “Save Command to File”. Then I have Minutes to open that file, and my text in Large Type would appear to alert me.

Quicksilver can also be used as a timer, but Minutes is much easier and prettier to use.