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Hot Alarm Clock Changelog

What's new in Hot Alarm Clock 6.3.0.0

Feb 4, 2022
  • Improved: The transparent kind of the clock has been improved. If you lock the size and position of the transparent clock, it will become inaccessible for clicking by the mouse.
  • Transparent Clock
  • Improved: The timer icon has been adjusted. Timer Icon
  • Improved: Now the print dialog appears immediately when printing tables.
  • Improved: The Scheduled Time Synchronization via the Internet is available if you run the program as an administrator or if User Account Control (UAC) is disabled.
  • Improved: The Italian interface language has been corrected.
  • New: The Indonesian interface language has been added.
  • Fixed: The list of days for the weekly alarm was displayed incorrectly for Asian languages.
  • Fixed: If no trailing slash was specified in the path to the database, then the backup did not work.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 6.2.0.0 (May 26, 2021)

  • Improved: The ability to type words like "today" and "tomorrow" in the "Start date" field on the Alarm dialog has been returned. Full list of supported words: today, tomorrow, yesterday, bom, eom, Monday...Sunday, first, second...seventh.
  • Improved: The ability to click on hyperlinks in the table in the reminders window has been added.
  • Changed: The behavior of the Enabled checkbox for alarms and timers has been changed. Now the checkbox is always set when editing an alarm or timer, but you can uncheck it and click OK.
  • Fixed: The list of icons was cleared after editing it.
  • Fixed: The colors of the tooltips in the Ribbon have been corrected for dark designs.
  • Fixed: A check has been added for the ability to create temporary files.
  • Some other bugfixes and improvements.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 6.1.0.0 (Mar 31, 2021)

  • Improved: The display of "Due in" information has been added to the reminders window.
  • Fixed: The online timer website did not open correctly when using emoji.
  • Fixed issue with the "Native style of windows" setting.
  • Fixed import error from free versions when you first start the program.
  • Fixed issue with using the OpenSSL library when sending emails.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 6.0.0.0 (Mar 16, 2021)

  • Improved: The design of the application has been updated. The application icons have been changed.
  • New appearance themes have been added: Office 2016 themes, Visual Studio 2013 themes, Basic, TheBezier. 15 outdated themes have been removed: Black, Blue, MoneyTwins, Sharp, Metropolis, MetropolisDark, VS2010, Office2007Black, Office2007Green, Office2007Pink, Office2007Silver, Office2010Black, Office2010Silver, Office2013LightGray, Office2013DarkGray.
  • New: Undo and Redo buttons have been added.
  • New "Open Online Alarm Clock", "Open Online Timer" and "Open Online Stopwatch" buttons have been added.
  • A new "Database path" setting has been added. You can use a Cloud drive or other Shared drive to store Hot Alarm Clock data. In this case, you can use the same data on multiple computers at the same time. Learn More
  • New: You can turn off the Navigation Pane so that the groups appear as buttons at the bottom. Learn More
  • New: With this release, you can customize the Ribbon in the same manner as you do in Microsoft Office. The Ribbon now provides two new customization forms: The Ribbon Customization dialog and the Quick Access Toolbar Customization dialog.
  • Improved: The design of the reminders window has been improved. If several reminders are shown, then for each of them there are buttons for Snooze, Delete, etc.
  • A new "Set as default" button has been added to Countdown tab as it is in Actions and Sound tabs.
  • Now you can hide the Snooze button in the reminders window. To do this, uncheck the "Snooze" checkbox in the Settings window.
  • New: The font size in the lists depends on the system font size. See also: How to change the size of text in Windows 10
  • A new "Follow up" column with "Today", "Tomorrow" and "This week" values has been added to the task list and grouping by it has been enabled by default. You can also filter the task list by this column.
  • New types of dial labels have been added for analog clocks: "Date" и "Date + Day".
  • New: For a one-time alarm, the "Run as stopwatch (increase)" item has been added in the "Once the alarm has been used" section, so that you can set the count up timer from the past date.
  • A new "Stop and reset" option has been added for timers.
  • Improved: You can now set the default item in the "Once the alarm has been used or has expired" section for alarms and the "On zero" section for timers.
  • New sounds have been added, some sounds have been renamed.
  • Improved: Translation of sounds into other languages has been added.
  • Improved: Now, after a successful start of the program, backup data files are created and they are used if a read error occurred on the next start.
  • Improved: The collapsed or expanded status of groups is persistent across restarts/reboot of the program and when switching between categories like Alarms, Timers etc.
  • Improved: The work of the program on High DPI screens has been improved and fixed.
  • Improved: The OK/Close button in the reminders window is focused by default, but the reminders window itself does not become active when it appears to avoid accidentally closing it. Learn More
  • Improved: The hint of the tray icon displays a list of clocks from the "Clock" section.
  • Improved: If for some reason the sound could not play, the system beep starts playing.
  • Improved: If the radio station cannot play, the default sound plays.
  • New actions "Press keys" and "Pause" have been added. Learn More
  • Improved: The recognition of available audio devices has been greatly improved. Now you can choose the default sound device and it won't reset when you disconnect and reconnect it.
  • Improved: Now you can also use the "Close after N sec." setting for the reminders window.
  • New: Import from ICS files has been added. Files with this extension are now automatically opened as new alarms.
  • Improved: When editing a timer, you can set any values for minutes and seconds. They will automatically be converted to hours and minutes.
  • Improved: The function of printing lists has been improved.
  • Improved: In Windows 7 and above, when playing the sound of the alarm, all sounds are muted and music playback is paused, if the sound device is set to default, and the "Turn on the volume" option is checked.
  • Improved: The display of milliseconds in the stopwatch has been improved.
  • Improved: The number of years for a birthday is displayed as a decimal number.
  • Improved: All dates in the calendar are now shown for an alarm with a list of dates.
  • Improved: The "Add" button has been added to the Info Window.
  • Improved: An additional check has been added that prohibits the launch of multiple instances of the program.
  • Improved: Now more detailed information is written to the log files if you launch the program with the /DEBUG parameter. Learn More
  • Improved user interface translation in some languages (especially Asian languages).
  • Improved: The data controller now allows users to build filter conditions with the Contains, NotContains, BeginsWith, and EndsWith comparison operators.
  • Improved: The OpenSSL libraries are included in the installer. They are used when you add the Send Email action.
  • Changed: The drawing of segment for a round timer has been fixed if the countdown time is more than one day.
  • Changed: If the timer value was changed when editing the timer, then the timer will start with the new time after saving.
  • Changed: The sound of the metronome has been changed. You can change the sound of the metronome by changing the Metronome.wav file.
  • Changed: Data files now have a .DAT extension.
  • Changed: Now it is not allowed to run two instances of the program from different folders.
  • Changed: The "Always on Top" option for the main window has been removed. This option still working for the Info panel and floating windows.
  • Changed: The "Internet Time" menu item has been moved to the File menu. This feature is deprecated because this option is already built into Windows 10.
  • Changed: The Scheduled Time Synchronization via Internet is not available if User Account Control (UAC) is enabled.
  • Fixed: When switching to winter time and moving the clock back one hour, alerts were triggered again.
  • Fixed a bug with resetting the position of floating windows when working with multiple screens.
  • Fixed: An issue with incorrect handling of specific formats of the system date and time has been fixed.
  • Fixed: The appearance of the analog clock for the Blueprint and Whiteprint themes has been changed.
  • Fixed: If you had an alarm set up for multiple reminders, but selected "Remove this alarm after it expires", the alarm disappeared after the first reminder.
  • Fixed: The error of displaying stopwatch digits when reaching large values has been fixed.
  • Fixed: The issue with synchronizing time via the Internet, when the difference is more than a month, has been fixed.
  • Fixed: The export and import of timers has been fixed.
  • Fixed: The digital clock cut out the wrong digits when abbreviating the year. yyyy produced 2017, but yy produced 20, instead of 17.
  • Fixed: The issue of blinking of the main window when switching programs using the Win+Tab hotkey has been fixed.
  • Fixed: The Info Window is now always on top of other windows if the "Always on Top" option is enabled.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.
  • New Advanced settings section has been added to the Settings window:
  • Colorize the entire line in the list;
  • Native style of windows;
  • Show missed notifications at program start;
  • Allow floating windows to move outside the working area of the desktop.
  • Improved: Floating windows have been improved:
  • The default font for numbers is "a_Digits".
  • When the timer is stopped, numbers are displayed in muted gray.
  • Decimals can be displayed in the layout. For example, 11 hours 30 minutes is displayed as 11.5 hours. Use only one character: "y", "M", "d", "h", "m", or "s".
  • Now you can delete a timer or alarm clock through the context menu of the floating window.
  • New options have been added:
  • Visible: Always, Only when active, 30 seconds before the event;
  • Change background color: Never, On zero, 30 seconds before the event, 1 minute before ... and the color picker;
  • Lock size and position.
  • Improved: The behavior of the "Date" field for a one-time alarm has been changed:
  • If the date is not set or it was set for today, tomorrow, or for the past date, then the alarm will go off today or tomorrow, depending on the alarm time.
  • If the date is set for the day after tomorrow or later, the specified date is used for the alarm.
  • New tags for the Text to Speech mode:
  • <day> - current day as a full name (Sunday-Saturday);
  • <timeleft> - how much time is left before the event.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 5.1.1.0 (Feb 5, 2016)

  • New: Translations of the user interface into 12 languages: Arabic, Czech, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal), Turkish, and Ukrainian.
  • Fixed: Issue with turning on volume after wakeup in Windows 10. Some other fixes and improvements.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 5.1.0.0 (Dec 28, 2015)

  • New options to change the hotkeys have been added. In addition, the hotkeys can be set as system-wide hotkeys.
  • New: You can set the system-wide hotkeys (Start/Stop, Reset) for timers and stopwatches.
  • New: The analog clock can display the date and day of the week. You can select it in the "Layout" field.
  • New ability to change the color of the text in the floating window for transparent skin.
  • New: 2 sound packs have been added to the download section.
  • Improved Windows 10 Compatibility.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the floating window displayed the incorrect amount of months and days.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the floating window had an incorrect font size.
  • Fixed: "Text to Speech" option sometimes didn't work correctly in Windows 10.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the alarm event did not bring the reminder window to the foreground in Windows 8 and above.
  • Some other fixes and improvements.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 5.0.0.0 (Jul 9, 2015)

  • Hot Alarm Clock now fully supports Unicode.
  • New: You can set as many as 5 additional reminders for alarms and timers.
  • New Send to Foreground option has been added to the Reminder window.
  • New Multi Select option has been added to grids. You can right-click the grid to set that option. You can select several rows and delete all of them at once.
  • New: You can export data from any grid to an XML file, or import data from an XML file.
  • New ability to play AAC and MP4 files has been added.
  • New Show countdown timer column has been added to all grids.
  • New menu items Weekdays and Weekends have been added to the Add alarm button.
  • New settings for annual alarms have been added. Now you can add an alarm for the Thanksgiving Day and other yearly events.
  • New Show alarm time option has been added to the floating timers.
  • New ability to set a name for the current lap has been added.
  • New buttons Start lap with the same name and Delete lap have been added to the laps list.
  • New Show lap time option has been added to the floating stopwatches.
  • New Add Lap button has been added to the floating stopwatches.
  • New report system has been added to the stopwatches.
  • New hint for the floating timer shows the date and time of the next alarm.
  • New Start timer action has been added to alarms and timers.
  • New command line parameters /ADDALARM and /ADDTIMER have been added.
  • Improved: A person's birthday stays in the event window until the birthday was over, showing 0 in the time counter.
  • Improved: Now you can change the time of additional reminders for birthdays.
  • Improved: Now you can place a link inside of a label, so that you can click the link when the reminder pops up on the screen.
  • Improved: The layout for the analog clock has been enabled, so that you can select the 12-hour or 24-hour layout.
  • Improved: Titles of the floating windows are centered.
  • Improved: The Reset Grid button clears the current filter.
  • Improved: Additional query appears when you try to reset the laps in the stopwatch.
  • Fixed: Always on Top option for the floating windows didn't work properly.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the alarm didn't go off; instead of that, the countdown timer started to count up.
  • Fixed: If you used the ampersand character (&) in the label for an alarm event, "_" was displayed instead of "&" when the reminder window popped up for that event.
  • Fixed: Hot Alarm Clock sometimes lost the registration data.
  • Fixed: Hot Alarm Clock stopped playing any sounds at all.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 4.2.0.0 (May 20, 2014)

  • New ability to edit the list of icons.
  • New Sound device option has been added to the main options.
  • You can set up an Outgoing mail server (SMTP) for sending a message when the alarm triggers.
  • New ability to edit the list of snooze times has been added to the Reminder options.
  • New optional password.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 4.1.0.0 (Feb 25, 2014)

  • New hidden columns "Date" and "Initial Value".
  • The theme collection has been extended with 5 new themes.
  • New option "Set as default" for actions of alarms and timers.
  • The ability to print list of alarms, timers, etc.
  • Improved DPI Scaling support.
  • Improved volume control behavior.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 4.0.2.0 (Oct 11, 2013)

  • New kind of alarms has been added: Specified dates.
  • New kind of countdown timers has been added for alarms and timers: Analog.
  • New Info panel to display a list of forthcoming events has been added.
  • New option for synchronizing time via the Internet has been added.
  • Lots of other improvements.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 3.1.0.0 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • New: Column "Timer" has been added in the list of alarms.
  • New: Hot Alarm Clock stores the order of the navigation bar icons.
  • New: Swedish interface language has been added.
  • Fixed: Sometimes alarms not fires when the computer wakes up from a sleep mode.

New in Hot Alarm Clock 3.0.1.0 (Apr 26, 2012)

  • New: List of Clocks
  • New: List of Stopwatches
  • New: To-Do List
  • New: Calendar view of all alarms, timers, tasks and birthdays
  • New: Options window where you can set language, time format, snooze period, skin of reminder, etc
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements

New in Hot Alarm Clock 2.1.2.0 (Mar 16, 2012)

  • New: Countdown timer in floating window for alarms and timers.
  • Improved: Reduced the height of alarm window.
  • Fixed: Issue with incorrect date for some formats.
  • Fixed: Issue with the weekly alarms. Some other bugfixes and improvements.