The Minutes Dashboard widget is a beautiful and very handy little tool to have on your Mac. This little timer is a pleasure to use and integrates perfectly on your Dashboard.
Simple yet elegant in design, Minutes offers four different designs to choose from. To start the timer simply wind the yellow pointer until you've reached the time you are looking for.
Minutes will display the current time and the countdown both in seconds and minutes, but clicking on it gives you other display choices.
Minutes has five different alarm sounds to choose from but you can also ask it to use your iTunes playlist.
Unfortunately you won't be able to select the one it plays. To alert you Minutes can also pop up a little message.
Minutes is a beautifully designed widget and a very handy timer.
Pros
Great design
Set different alarm sounds
Cons
Can't select iTunes playlist
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Just turn the knob to set and start a timer. And push the button to stop. That's all. The knob slides smoothly, the button fades gradually and shines in modesty.
"Works nicely, but stops my itunes playlist"
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usability7
Stability10
Installation10
Functionality6
Appearance9
I want to be able to play music in itunes, set the timer, and have the timer interrupt the music, then resume the music. As it is, it seems to stop itunes entirely.
Pros
Can pick a variety of sounds, including my own wav
Easy to set
Remembers most recently set time after the timer ends
Cons
Stops itunes instead of interrupting it or playing over it
A little tricky to pick my own wav file, there's no "open" dialog box
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