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Two Minutes on a Mac

After reading this post on lifehacker today about a simple two minute timer for all those Getting Things Done fans out there, I realized what I had to do. I couldn’t stand seeing Mac users left out in the cold when it comes to two minute timing utilities! To that end, I’ve created a little application, so just click here to download your Mac version of the two minute timer.

I don’t think it will become the next new Stunt product, but hopefully one or two people out there will find it useful. I even threw in Growl support, mostly because I’d never used Growl before and wanted to see how easy it would be to implement. The answer? Very very easy.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 at 12:18 am.
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18 Responses to “Two Minutes on a Mac”

  1. Robert June 6th, 2006 at 11:18 pm

    What are the licensing terms of this product? GPL? Public Domain? I didn’t see a text document or anything in the “About” menu of the product detailing the terms under which you are making this available to the world…

  2. Dan Messing June 9th, 2006 at 9:32 pm

    I’m not sure about the specific license, I want anyone to be able to use it for free, but don’t want anybody redistributing it without at least asking me first. Any suggestions?

  3. Dan Messing June 29th, 2006 at 12:28 am

    I put up a license page describing the licensing terms of this software. Basically just what I said above.

  4. Cheri July 6th, 2006 at 3:27 am

    Thanks for sharing your timer for Macs! I have two suggestions: 1. Have an option to have the timer on permanent restart. I love to jog and walk on my treadmill, and need a timer that beeps every two minutes for 60 minutes straight. 2. The timer should beep! It should actually make a noise so that if you are running on a treadmill or in the kitchen, you would be able to hear it.

    Thanks again and please keep in touch if you make any of the changes above.

    Sincerely,
    Cheri

  5. Aeon McNulty August 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 am

    Thanks! That’s great. I have a couple of feature requests:

    1. Can you add dock badges to it so that you can have option to see the time counting down in the dock too?

    2. Can you add the option to change the time period from the default two minutes?

    Many thanks

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  8. jack January 17th, 2007 at 3:08 am

    thanks from all of us GTD’s

  9. David McDonald February 7th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    Great wee easy app, I love it.
    I’m a big fan of GTD/43Folders/Lifehacker etc.
    Thanks for this.

    Cheers.

  10. Charles Stewart April 16th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    The download link, http://www.stuntsoftware.com/dmg/twominutetimer.dmg, is currently broken. The similar http://www.stuntsoftware.com/dmg/Downsize.dmg works fine, so I guess it’s just a file walked off…

  11. Dan Messing April 16th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Charles,

    Thanks, I’ve fixed the link in the original post - it was actually just a capitalization issue that worked fine our last server, but not this one, so the correct link is http://www.stuntsoftware.com/dmg/TwoMinuteTimer.dmg

  12. Dos minutos — El Canasto May 18th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

    […] Resulte que existen estudiantes de informática que han pensado lo mismo, y quien han escrito un software parecido. Como la aplicación Two Minutes que uso yo, pero también hay varias otras aplicaciones para Windows o para Macintosh, un reloj en internet, widgets para Google y Yahoo!. […]

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  15. My Get Things Done List » Blog Archive » Dos minutos [El Canasto] December 29th, 2007 at 5:16 am

    […] Resulte que existen estudiantes de informática que han pensado lo mismo, y quien han escrito un software parecido. Como la aplicación Two Minutes que uso yo, pero también hay varias otras aplicaciones para Windows o para Macintosh, un reloj en internet, widgets para Google y Yahoo!. […]

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  17. Jens Poder October 28th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Can I just say… Thank you!

    This will definitely help me a lot.

    - Jens Poder

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