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13 <td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 484px; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"></span><img style="width: 48px; height: 48px;" alt="" src="kitchenalert_48x48.png" align="middle"> <big><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">KitchenAlert for Maemo</span></big>
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23 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">KitchenAlert
24 is a timer application for maemo5 (in practise Nokia's N900 device),
25 designed to suite especially cooking and baking purposes. <span style="font-weight: bold;">A new
26 version (0.3.0) is now available.</span> <br>
28 KitchenAlert obeys the volume setting of the device. It is highly
29 recommended to test whether you can hear the alert from where you will
30 be keeping your phone before actually using it to alert you of
31 something. During phone calls all alerts are omitted.<br>
32 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"></span><br>
33 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"></span> </td>
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40 <h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features
43 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Multiple
44 timers can be run simultaneously. Timers can be saved.</span><br>
45 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <br>
46 </span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
51 by the user. Any sound file type supported by the platform (e.g. mp3,
52 vaw, aac (used in ringtones)) can be used. If you want to use an .ogg
53 file, you need to have the package <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/ogg-support/">ogg-support</a>
54 installed on your N900.
55 You can even set an mp4 video as the alert sound, and the program will
56 use its audio stripe. <br>
58 A default alarm sound is also provided. The current one is modified
59 from a</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doorbell-old-tring.ogg">public
60 domain </a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doorbell-old-tring.ogg">doorbell
61 ring</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
63 the default sound is chosen on basis of not hurting your ears if using
64 headphones at high volume. On noisy situations a louder sound may be
66 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br>
67 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
69 is treated as belonging to the group "alarm" by the system. Actual
70 behavior will depend on the settings for this group. With a freshly
71 installed PR 1.3 global image, the alarm is played even if the silent
72 mode is on. Also, it plays at lower volume on top of music
73 when mediaplayer is playing. With loud music, the alarm may not be
76 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
77 application sometimes auto-minimizes itself when the device is
78 unlocked. Sometimes the "stop" button needs to be pressed twice to
79 silence an alert (the first one stops it, but the sound keeps playing).<br>
80 Running several timers for several hours risks draining
83 The sound system of the device is restarted during install/update.
84 Should the restart fail for any reason the device would be left
85 completely mute. Restarting the device will restore the sounds.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br>
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92 <h4>in version 0.3.0</h4>
94 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">saving and loading of timers<br></span>
98 <h4>in version 0.2.1</h4>
100 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">the
101 alert sound can again be changed even if there are no alerts in the
105 <h4>in version 0.2.0</h4>
107 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">improved
108 and finger-friendlier user interface</span></li>
109 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">removing
110 alerts from the list is now possible</span></li>
111 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">the
112 alert sound is now played also when MediaPlayer is playing. (Loud alert
113 sound may be needed for hearing it over the music, though.)<br>
115 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">alert
116 sound no longer jams when several timers alert close to each other</span></li>
117 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">stopping
118 one alert no longer silences all alerts</span></li>
119 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">zero
120 second alerts alert now<br>
122 <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">a
123 new default sound and a new desktop icon</span></li>
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129 <h3><a name="Download"></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Download</span></h3>
130 <h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"></span></h3>
131 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">You can
133 KitchenAlert on your N900 from the <a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel">extras-devel</a>
134 repository. However, as
136 this repositories, it's not necessarily safe: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">keep in mind
137 the above cautions on volume and battery drain.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> Remember to close
138 the repository after installing to
139 avoid unwanted updating of your applications to development versions.<br>
141 Bug reports and feature requests are welcome on the application's <a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/kitchenalert/">garage project
147 <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 484px; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">©
148 Heli Hyvättinen 2010-2011. KitchenAlert is free software under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" target="_blank">GNU
149 General Public License 3</a>.<br>