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<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">KitchenAlert
is a timer application for maemo5 (in practise Nokia's N900 device),
-designed to suite especially cooking and baking purposes. An early
-version (0.1) is available.<br>
- <br>Playing
-music overrides the alert, and the alert sound is not played.
+designed to suite especially cooking and baking purposes. The latest version is 0.3.0. <br>
+ <br>
KitchenAlert obeys the volume setting of the device. It is highly
recommended to test whether you can hear the alert from where you will
be keeping your phone before actually using it to alert you of
-something. Even more so if using the default sound, which is not really
-as loud or clear as it should be.<br>
+something. During phone calls all alerts are omitted.<br>
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-
- <h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features and bugs<br>
+ <h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features
+and bugs<br>
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- <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
-alert will not be played if the device is playing another sound thatr
-overrides it, e.g. when playing music with mediaplayer.<br>
- <br>
-Multiple
-timers can be run simultaneously. However, if timers alert very
-close to each other, the alert sound can be jammed (silences) and won't
-recover. So no sound for alerts after that until you restart the
-application. Also, running several timers for several hours may drain
-your battery.<br>
- <br>
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- <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The alarm
+ <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Multiple
+timers can be run simultaneously. Timers can be saved.</span><br>
+ <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <br>
+ </span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
+alarm
sound
can
be set
by the user. Any sound file type supported by the platform (e.g. mp3,
vaw, aac (used in ringtones)) can be used. If you want to use an .ogg
-file, you need to have the package <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/ogg-support/">ogg-support</a> installed on your N900.
+file, you need to have the package <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/ogg-support/">ogg-support</a>
+installed on your N900.
You can even set an mp4 video as the alert sound, and the program will
use its audio stripe. <br>
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A default alarm sound is also provided. The current one is modified
-from a</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">
-public domain </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">birdssound from <a href="http://www.fws.gov/video/sound.htm">U.S.
-Fish and Wildlife Service</a>.<br>
+from a</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doorbell-old-tring.ogg">public
+domain </a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doorbell-old-tring.ogg">doorbell
+ring</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
+loudness of
+the default sound is chosen on basis of not hurting your ears if using
+headphones at high volume. On noisy situations a louder sound may be
+needed.</span><br>
+ <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br>
+ </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
+alert sound
+is treated as belonging to the group "alarm" by the system. Actual
+behavior will depend on the settings for this group. With a freshly
+installed PR 1.3 global image, the alarm is played even if the silent
+mode is on. Also, it plays at lower volume on top of music
+when mediaplayer is playing. With loud music, the alarm may not be
+audible.</span><br>
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+ <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
+application sometimes auto-minimizes itself when the device is
+unlocked. Sometimes the "stop" button needs to be pressed twice to
+silence an alert (the first one stops it, but the sound keeps playing).<br>
+Running several timers for several hours risks draining
+your battery.<br>
+ <br>
+The sound system of the device is restarted during install/update.
+Should the restart fail for any reason the device would be left
+completely mute. Restarting the device will restore the sounds.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br>
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+ <h3>New</h3>
+ <h4>in version 0.3.0</h4>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">saving and loading of timers<br></span>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4>in version 0.2.1</h4>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">the
+alert sound can again be changed even if there are no alerts in the
+list <br>
+ </span></li>
+ </ul>
+ <h4>in version 0.2.0</h4>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">improved
+and finger-friendlier user interface</span></li>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">removing
+alerts from the list is now possible</span></li>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">the
+alert sound is now played also when MediaPlayer is playing. (Loud alert
+sound may be needed for hearing it over the music, though.)<br>
+ </span></li>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">alert
+sound no longer jams when several timers alert close to each other</span></li>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">stopping
+one alert no longer silences all alerts</span></li>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">zero
+second alerts alert now<br>
+ </span></li>
+ <li><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">a
+new default sound and a new desktop icon</span></li>
+ </ul>
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<h3><a name="Download"></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Download</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">You can
KitchenAlert on your N900 from the <a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel">extras-devel</a>
repository. However, as
usual for
-this repositories, it's not necessarily safe: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">keep in mind the above cautions on volume settings, losing alert sound and battery drain.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> Remember to close the repository after installing to
+this repositories, it's not necessarily safe: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">keep in mind
+the above cautions on volume and battery drain.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> Remember to close
+the repository after installing to
avoid unwanted updating of your applications to development versions.<br>
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Bug reports and feature requests are welcome on the application's <a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/kitchenalert/">garage project
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