Drive Software, a shareware development company, is behind Atomic Alarm Clock a desktop clock that replaces the tray clock in Windows. It can be used to set up multiple alarms on your PC for various tasks that are time sensitive - like picking up your kid from school if you are work-at-home person like me. They accepted a sponsored review* to have me discuss the clock.

More or less it is a souped up version of the default clock that is found on all Windows OS and lets you set once, hourly, daily, weekly etc..alarms for whatever time of day you need to be reminded of something for. The clock itself can be skinned using any of the various skins that are built into the software itself or you can make your own skin if you’re up to it -

It has a multilingual interface, it can play MP3’s as a wake up call or for specific type of alarms. You can even have it set so that it can run a program, log off, reboot, shut down or power your system off for you. A pretty nifty set of features for a clock huh!

For the entire set of features and more description have a look at the Atomic Alarm Clock - home page. Personally, I use a Firefox extension that reminds of my set alarms, but let me tell you sometimes it just clearly misses an alarm, at other times it just beeps at the wrong time.

Since the Atomic Alarm Clock is a shareware application it doesn’t come with any restrictions on usage, but the trial is set at 30 days so you will have to pay the $24.95 the clock is priced at after that.

If you want to give it a trial run, download clock here. They even have their own page on CNET and with over 8000 downloads they have a 4.5/5 star rating. I might just give it a try.

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