Pomodoro Windows 7 gadget

I was really inspired by http://tomatoi.st/ web service which provides an easy to use web interface for Pomodoro time management technique.

But unfortunately, tomatoi.st is down due to overload too often, so I spent 20 minutes and prepared a simple Windows 7 pomodoro gadget. It does just what’s needed – showing timers:

Click on “Work” button to start 25 minutes work interval, “short br” – to get 5 minutes short break timeout, “long br” for a 15 minutes long break.

It’s dead easy to download and install – just click here. Or you can inspect the code if you want to – gadget is just a zip file with html, css and js inside.

Ah, and I have to warn you – when a period of time is over, it starts playing Alert.wav every second until you set a new period.

For more information about Windows 7 gadgets you read the following posts on my blog:

1. introduction to the gadgets platform
2. Exploring Windows Desktop Gadgets 
3. Exploring Windows Desktop Gadgets #2 – security and limitations
4. Exploring Windows Desktop Gadgets #3 – settings storage
5. Exploring Windows Desktop Gadgets #4 – flyouts

Or read MSDN.

P.S. this gadget doesn’t have any settings or flyout or anything else – it’s very simple.

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