It's been a while since I've seen an application that I actually liked, but Citrus Alarm Clock really impressed me. This alarm clock excels through a combination of simplicity, effectiveness and user comfort.
There are a lot of things that impressed me when I tried out Citrus Alarm Clock. I liked the fact that it will take your computer out of sleep mode in order to trigger the alarm at a specific hour; I enjoyed the fact that you can trigger the snooze function by pressing space and I even found the error in the changelog file funny.
Since the last time it was reviewed by our site, Citrus Alarm Clock has suffered a lot of improvements. Some of the most important ones include the facts that it supports a lot more audio formats than it used to, that you can now set a maximum volume for your alarms and that the sound fading effect will still be enabled even after you trigger the snooze action.
All that being said, Citrus Alarm Clock is a tool that I would full-heartedly recommend. It's not pricy at all, it does its job really well and you have complete control over every aspect of the application.
v2.3.4 [May 13, 2010]
- Fixed an issue where unexpected Windows Media Player errors could pop up an error dialog and prevent the alarm from playing.
- Increased the length of time before a media timeout error occurs, fixed an unusual error message that would occur when clicking the registration link, and fixed some formatting issues on the About dialog where the link text wasn't aligning correctly.
