What's new in Cool Timer 5.2.2.9
Sep 30, 2014
- Added option to play warning sound when specified amount of time is left on timer. Added option to play sound while timer is counting down.
- Added option to specify background color for digits.
New in Cool Timer 5.2.2.2 (Aug 13, 2014)
- Fixed various minor issues.
- Added option to hide control buttons when shown full-screen.
- Added ability to right-click any toolbar button for menu to choose button style.
New in Cool Timer 5.2.1.4 (May 29, 2014)
- Fixed an issue that would cause an error if URLs entered as alarm tasks were formatted incorrectly.
New in Cool Timer 5.1.8.0 (Mar 4, 2014)
- Added option to specify whether or not you wish system volume to automatically adjusted when time expires or alarm time is reached.
- Fixed an issue that would cause timer to stop if user cancelled closing the program after confirmation.
New in Cool Timer 5.1.7.0 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Fixed an issue that was causing scrolling marquee message to not display properly in Alarm Clock mode.
- Improved timer performance and reliability.
New in Cool Timer 5.1.6.0 (Dec 30, 2013)
- System volume is now automatically adjusted when alarms sound and returned to previous setting when alarm is turned off
- Added better support for Windows XP
- Fixed an issue that would cause built-in alarm sounds to not play properly in some cases
- Added audio indicator when volume is adjusted for countdown alarm
- Fixed an issue with auto-restart feature
- Fixed an issue that causing countdown timer to reset to the wrong time in some cases when reset button was clicked or auto-restart was used
New in Cool Timer 5.1.5.0 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that would cause an error when deleting scheduled alarms in alarm clock mode
New in Cool Timer 5.1.4.0 (Dec 2, 2013)
- Added ability to apply changes to alarm clock alarm for only next occurrence of that alarm, then automatically revert back to previous setting
New in Cool Timer 5.1.3.0 (Nov 13, 2013)
- No longer minimized to System Tray by default when x button is clicked. User must select this option in preferences if they want this behavior
- Warning message is now displayed if you attempt to close the program with alarm clock alarms pending
New in Cool Timer 5.1.2.0 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Puzzle window now blocks entire screen so nothing else can be accessed until puzzle is solved
New in Cool Timer 5.1.1.0 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Fixed issue with alarm clock status message
- Added option to specify whether or not to repeat alarms weekly
- Added quick select option for weekdays
- Fixed an issue that would cause alarms to not work if more than one was set and the last one was disabled
New in Cool Timer 5.1.0.0 (Oct 7, 2013)
- Added option to specify whether or not to repeat alarms weekly
- Added quick select option for weekdays
- Fixed an issue that would cause alarms to not work if more than one was set and the last one was disabled
- Fixed an issue that was cause preset times to not be saved correctly in some cases
New in Cool Timer 5.0.9.0 (Sep 6, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that would cause the countdown timer to freeze in some situations when the auto-restart feature was used. Added ability to clone alarms in alarm clock mode.
New in Cool Timer 5.0.8 (Aug 26, 2013)
- Fixed an issue with the auto-restart feature
- Fixed an issue with the scrolling marquee message
- Fixed an issue with the previously used labels menu
New in Cool Timer 5.0.7 (Aug 20, 2013)
- Fixed an issue with Enter key not starting countdown timer
New in Cool Timer 5.0.6 (Aug 12, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that was causing labels to not be saved in some situations
- Fixed an issue that was not allowing long wav sounds to be turned off with the alarm off button in some cases
- Fixed an issue that was causing the visualization screen to go blank briefly when time expired in countdown mode
New in Cool Timer 5.0.5 (Aug 1, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that would cause an error if more than one alarm was set for the exact same time on the exact same day
- Fixed an issue that was causing some Windows 7 specific features to cause errors on Windows XP
- Fixed issue that caused an error if no days of the week were selected for alarms
New in Cool Timer 5.0.4 (Jul 29, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that was causing an error when the pause button was clicked in countdown mode for some users
- Fixed an issue that would cause settings to not be retained when upgrading to newer version
- Program window now comes to front when beneath other windows and System Tray icon is double-clicked
- Fixed an issue that was causing an error if program was installed over previous version in which discontinued sound was selected as alarm
New in Cool Timer 5.0.3 (Jul 19, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that was causing an error if program was installed over previous version in which discontinued sound was selected as alarm
New in Cool Timer 5.0.2 (Jul 15, 2013)
- Fixed in issue that caused hours to display a decimal number when reset button was clicked
- Fixed issue with automatic updates not completing properly
- Fixed several other minor issues
New in Cool Timer 5.0.1 (Jul 12, 2013)
- Fixed issue that was causing sounds not to play in XP
New in Cool Timer 4.9.3 (Apr 22, 2013)
- Added new sound to list of built-in alarm sounds
New in Cool Timer 4.9.2 (Apr 10, 2013)
- Fixed a bug that caused auto-restart to behave erratically in some cases
New in Cool Timer 4.9.0 (Nov 27, 2012)
- Added ability to adjust window opacity
- Countdown progress is now shown on taskbar icon
- Added ability to minimize or restore program window by moving mouse cursor to corner of screen
- Added option to disable confirmation prompts for certain actions
New in Cool Timer 4.8.7 (Oct 23, 2012)
- Added option to choose whether or not program window automatically pops up when alarm goes off.
- Program now displays time is user's native local format automatically depending on Windows locale settings.
New in Cool Timer 4.8.6 (Oct 18, 2012)
- Fixed a minor issue loading sound files on some computers
New in Cool Timer 4.8.5 (Oct 15, 2012)
- Fixed issue that would cause an exception when loading sounds at startup on some computers
- Fixed issue with manually entering alarm time in alarm clock mode
New in Cool Timer 4.8.3 (Oct 1, 2012)
- Fixed built-in alarm sounds become distorted after prolonged looping on some older Windows versions
- Fixed marquee message text not being saved between sessions
- Added ability to press enter to activate alarm in alarm clock mode
- Fixed some dialogs being not shown properly
New in Cool Timer 4.8.2 (Sep 29, 2012)
- Fixed marquee message text not being saved between sessions
- Added ability to press enter to activate alarm in alarm clock mode
- Fixed some dialogs being hidden when option is set to keep program window on top of other windows
- Made preferences dialog re-sizable for lower resolution computers
New in Cool Timer 4.8.1 (Sep 21, 2012)
- Fixed an issue with the auto-restart feature
- Improved update system so that user settings are retained when new versions are installed
New in Cool Timer 4.8 (Sep 20, 2012)
- Added option to disable using the spacebar as a shortcut key. This was conflicting with typing in other apps for some users.
New in Cool Timer 4.7 (Sep 17, 2012)
- Fixed an issue that was not allowing the use of the numeric keypad to enter times in countdown mode.
New in Cool Timer 4.6 (Sep 14, 2012)
- Fixed an issue causing full screen digits to not update to correct mode when mode was changed in the main window
- Fixed an issue with auto-restart feature that would cause the timer to speed up on subsequent cycles
- Added ability to control timer with shortcut keys when using full screen digits
New in Cool Timer 4.4 (Sep 10, 2012)
- Fixed issue in alarm clock mode that was making alarm not sound at exactly the right second
- Fixed issue with using mp3 files as alarm in alarm clock mode
New in Cool Timer 4.3 (Sep 4, 2012)
- Fixed issue that would freeze program while checking for updates
- Fixed issue with changing marquee text color in alarm clock mode
- All alarm sounds are now played in a separate process, so no more crackling should occur
- Fixed several other minor issues
New in Cool Timer 4.2 (Aug 29, 2012)
- Auto-restart feature
- Choose digital LED style or regular font for digits
- Adjust time while timer is counting down
- Optionally show larger
- Re-sizable digits in place of image visualization
- Fixed distorted sound for some users
- Integration with Windows shell
- Several other bug fixes
New in Cool Timer 4.0 (Jul 27, 2012)
- Entirely redesigned interface
- Added visualization feature
- Change modes quickly and easily on the fly
- Configurable startup mode or use last-used
- Many more built-in alarm sounds
- Run several instances and label each one
- Change color of scrolling marquee message
New in Cool Timer 3.6 (Aug 19, 2008)
- Fixed bug that would cause a runtime error sometimes when running in "Alarm Clock" mode. Fixed bug that would not allow manually entering times using the keyboard in some instances.
New in Cool Timer 3.5 (Jun 4, 2008)
- Added ability to use program like a stopwatch. Added option to display scrolling LED-style text message when alarm sounds.
New in Cool Timer 3.3 (Jan 14, 2008)
- New, more accurate timer engine
- Fixed bug that made some mp3 files not play properly
New in Cool Timer 3.0 (Nov 13, 2007)
- New "wake mode" allows program to be used as an alarm clock.
- Added "auto restart" feature that restarts the countdown timer automatically when time expires.
- Added option to keep program window on top of all other windows.
- Added option to have the alarm loop indefinitely, play only once, or play no sound at all.
New in Cool Timer 2.2 (Feb 20, 2007)
- Fixed a bug that would cause the program to not play some wavs properly.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the interface to change size when being restored from tray icon when alarm sounded.