Put on your Geek glasses and pocket protector and prepare to Geek-out with us, as we delve into the depths of some...Online Alarm Clock Trivia!

Hey Clock Fans, in March of next year we’ll be celebrating four years of being online as the original Online Alarm Clock, and we’ve been thinking that some of you still might know as much about our clock website as you would like to.

For this reason we’ve created this blog post by compiling some of the top Online Alarm Clock Trivia Tips with details and information about OnlineClock.net that’s intended really just for our true fans.

But, by looking at our traffic numbers each month, we know that there are actually a whole lot of you out there!

So sit back, relax, tune in to some groovy music channel on our Clock Radio application to use as background music, and enjoy our list of factoids about everyone’s favorite web-based internet alarm clock.

Here’s our list of Online Alarm Clock Trivia, presented in no particular order of importance:

1. Online Clock was the world’s first website designed to be an internet alarm clock. Since then, we’ve spawned literally dozens of imitators.
2. OnlineClock.net went online back on March 24th, 2006.
3. We made it to the front page of Digg.com the same year, with this story (posted by someone else). This gave our site a huge jump-start (thank you, Digg!!!).
4. We currently have not just one, but over ten different kinds of Online Alarm Clocks which you can find on our Site Map page.
5. OnlineClock.net was created by an American web developer named Tom, a guy who moved from San Francisco to Berlin, Germany about ten years ago. In addition to Online Clock, Tom is a big fan of comics and punk rock.
6. In fact, Online Clock continues to be developed, maintained and marketed by a single individual (we sometimes write using ‘we’ or refer to the ‘OnlineClock.net Team’ just because it sounds kind of lame writing about the site using “I” all the time. Being run by one person has its drawbacks, including the fact that I have to write blog posts like this one sometimes even when I’m on vacation (!). But heck, it’s all worth it…
7. At the time this article was written, OnlineClock was receiving about 1.5 million unique visitors per month.
8. OnlineClock runs on a dedicated Linux server (because they’re the best servers in the world – go Linux!!!)
9. Our Alarm Clock Blog that you’re reading now runs using the popular WordPress open source blogging system (it’s simply the best blogging software on the planet).
10. Although OnlineClock.net has been profitable for some time now, we probably don’t get that much back from it if you take into consideration all of the hours of work we put into it. But hey, that’s OK because the site truly is a labor of love. We really, really care about OnlineClock.net, and we hope that you notice this in various ways, such as the fact that we refuse to over-commercialize the site and we keep our use of advertising tasteful and non-intrusive!

So there you have it, Clock Fans: that was a list of various Online Alarm Clock Trivia which was especially selected for those of you who consider yourself true OnlineClock freaks.

And, judging from the reactions we receive via email, via our Facebook and Twitter account, we know that there are a lot of rapid OnlineClock.net followers out there.

We’re delighted to have all of you as fans – thank you for helping to make Online Clock what it is today!

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Actually, the title of this post could also be: “What Makes A Classic Clock Website?”.

But what we’re talking about here applies to any kind of product…not just a clock, or a website.

Because this is going to be another Online Alarm Clock rant telling about our aims, goals and philosophy, together with an analysis for why our alarm clock site has become so popular.

If you look at the history of online alarm clocks on the internet, and examine the various players in this space, you will indeed find that Online Clock was the first website to go online with the goal of being simply…an alarm clock.

Since we went live back on March 24th, 2006 a lot of copycats have sprung up on the internet, copying our original idea of creating a website that should be used as an online alarm clock.

Still, all of these competitors have failed up to now in gaining the kind of user base and popularity that we’ve achieved with Online Clock.

Why is this?

Well, it’s because almost all of our competitors fall prey to Feature Glut.

Here’s a quote from Aidan Henry, from his blog post “Too Many Features” in which he spells out the advantages of paring down a product to just the essential features list:

How often do you read a features set that is over a page long and you’re left wondering… “WTF does this thing actually do for me?” It’s a daunting reality. Now, isn’t it refreshing when you browse a feature set that is minimal (only in terms of size). You can paint a clear picture in your head as to what the system/site/software can accomplish for you.

And, to follow up, Chris Dame discusses the big disadvantages of overly feature-laden products, from his blog post “Feature Explosion“:

The mentality that you are missing out by not cramming every possible feature into something you pay for is self-defeating. People forget that for every feature you add, there needs to be a way to access it. Quickly you have gadgets with screen after screen of options, and suddenly you can’t get past the kitchen timer and movie player just to place a call.

Definitely, when it comes to Tech, or websites, simplicity is no joke. It makes the difference between a normal website and a website that reaches classic status.

If you look at the mega success stories of Google and Twitter, what do they have in common?

They’ve made their products simpler to use than their competitors.

But the importance of simplicity and minimal design doesn’t just apply to websites. It’s certainly not just a coincidence, for example, that the creators of Online Clock are huge fans of the following cultural icons:

Charles Bukowski - An Example of Simplicity in Literature

Charles Bukowsi: his stripped-down prose shows that simpler is better, even in literature. Read his novel Post Office and try not to consider it timeless literature. The carefully selected and simple words drill like short, sharp shocks to your brain, leaving you wondering how in the heck you could’ve read all those other long-winded writers.

The Ramones - An Example of Simplicity in Music

The Ramones: forget about long, self-indulgent guitar solos and instead make your point, make it quickly, then stop. That’s what the Ramones do. Is it punk? Or is it just really intelligent, simple pop? It doesn’t matter, because it’s just damn good, blowing away all that progressive hippie-arena-rock-crap music that was being made at the time they were around.

Mondrian - An Example of Simplicity in Painting

Mondrian: it’s not just about the colors and shapes. It’s about the empty space and the silence that you can find between and around these elements. A lot of people that I know and love still maintain that this isn’t real art. But that’s okay – they just don’t get it.

Mies van der Rohe - An Example of Simplicity in Architecture & Design

Mies van der Rohe: his “skin and bones” architecture and furniture design reduced everything down to its elements, creating classic designs that will never be forgotten. During his time many people found his work just “industrial” and ugly. But over the years it’s been acclaimed as some of the most elegant design work ever created.

And, yes, let’s add this to the list above:

Online Clock - An Example of Simplicity in Websites

The Online Alarm Clock: its name says what it does. Period. It works. People like it. We don’t mess with a winning formula. Even people who don’t read TechCrunch on a regular basis know how to use our alarm clock instantly. There is no need for a description or explanation for how the site is supposed to work.

Perhaps, at this point, a few of you are thinking that we’ve gone insane, mentioning our alarm clock website in the same breath with these great design pioneers and geniuses?

Megalomania?

We don’t think so.

And the reason why is: the entire time that OnlineClock.net has been online, it’s been preoccupied with design and minimalism and, yes, even art. We like to think that our website is a great example of the successful integration of art and commerce.

Sure, you’ll find advertising on our site, and by definition that makes us a commercial website. But the advertising has remained tasteful and restrained, and even complements the design of the entire website, adding useful information.

How many other websites can say the same?

And how many other websites are there that have perhaps created a pleasant design and a loyal user base, but have forgotten, along the way, to find a way to monetize their site…thus leaving them playing a frantic game of “catch up”, struggling to find ways to earn money from a website which costs them a small fortune in hosting and bandwidth costs, just to keep it online and accessible, 24 hours a day?

Not too many, sadly. The air is thin up here.

The world keeps changing, becoming more complex, and human beings feel increasingly overwhelmed by these changes.

As a case in point, we went out to purchase a new mobile phone recently. We were bombarded with offers for mobile phones that could surf the internet, play music, play videos, send text messages, send messages with images, play games , take photos and videos and then send them around the world or upload them to websites.

All we wanted was a mobile phone that could–guess what?–make telephone calls.

Such a device is hard to find, but, once we found a mobile phone with fewer features, it instantly became more attractive to us, and we bought it. We are not alone.

The time has come for an advanced sense of aesthetics, in which enlightened product designers can truly make the world a more attractive, enjoyable and useful place simply by designing simpler objects.

When you purchase a new automobile these days, you’re probably going to find complex systems of electronics that do everything for you except prepare and cook your evening meal. But what are the side effects of such complexity? You’re going to be requiring the assistance of your neighborhood mechanic more and more often, since increased complexity means something’s more likely to break.

Stop. Using. Complex. Objects.

Instead, demand that the objects we become dependent upon are intelligently designed, with simplicity in mind.

Reward products that do follow the laws of simplicity by purchasing them, sponsoring them and by becoming their fans.

In time, complex designs will become less profitable…and less dominant.

Helping this process along is one way that OnlineClock can make the world a better place.

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Hey, we were too busy working hard to notice that the Alarm Clock Blog has passed the one year mark.

That’s right: Online Clock has been online now posting stories about alarms, clocks and anything time-related for over one full year!

During this time we’ve picked up a lot of experience.

Yes, we’ve come a very long way, we think, from our first post, in which we truly didn’t know what we were doing.

And why do I keep writing “we” here? Because actually this blog, like the entire OnlineClock.net website, is a labor of love from one single individual, the creator of the Online Alarm Clock. That’s me, and my name’s Tom. I just happen to also be the author of all these blog posts. (So you know who to complain to, if you don’t like them!)

Yes, I’d read in a lot of different places that blogs are supposed to be very good for marketing a website.  The actual “work” of writing a blog sounded like a lot of fun to me. I used to work as an advertising copywriter, and, before that, I was an English major in college, so the writing part seems to come pretty easily to me, Thank God!

Sometimes it’s a little difficult thinking up subject material for the Alarm Clock Blog, and I sometimes experience brief periods of writers’ block, but this always disappears eventually, and the words start flowing again.

So, the purpose of this post is to have a little look at the past year or so of the Alarm Clock Blog’s existence and to highlight a few posts that we particularly like, for whatever reason (there I go again using “we”…well, please excuse me – it simply sounds better than writing “I” all the time!).

Without further ado, we present to you: the first round of Highlights from the Alarm Clock Blog ! (A drum roll, please!)

Click on any of the Alarm Clock Blog screenshots below to read the post that’s being referred to in each short description:

"The Toaster Alarm Clock", in which we claim to have discovered an alarm clock that makes toast for you when it wakes you up.

"Online Clock Starts Web 5.0", in which we poke fun at the wacky "Web 2.0" world by claiming to start the next relevant trend after "Web 3.0".

"Why I Am The Clock Man": an actually very serious and accurate biographical look at how Online Clock's creator ended up making the site. It's been a long, wild ride!

"Clockux - The Online Clock Operating System", in which we poke a little fun at the Linux community by claiming to be working on our own version of Linux, designed to be simply...an alarm clock!

"50 Clock and Roll Songs", a blog post in which OnlineClock.net butchers the song titles of fifty very popular rock and pop songs, altering them so that they contain the word "Clock" in their song titles (sorry, we're just like that).

So there you have it, Clock Fans – that’s OnlineClock’s own official list of the best Alarm Clock Blog posts from the first year of our blog’s operation (approximately, that is – the last blog post in the list might have been published a little after our anniversary…but, heck, who’s counting?!).

And what do all of these featured blog posts have in common?

They all have something to do with alarms, clocks or the Online Alarm Clock (duh!).

Most of them seem to be spoofs or parodies…because I guess we don’t like to take things too seriously at OnlineClock.net.

Life is far too short and, frequently, too absurd for that.

So let’s just have some fun together, shall we?

For this reason we hope that YOU, dear Clock Fans and loyal Alarm Clock Blog readers, will stick around with us for many more years to come!

And we’re quite serious about that.

Now…will you please go out and GET A JOB?

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Productivity? What productivity…does looking at your office clock feel like having a loaded gun held to your head?

Here we are, at the start of a new work week, and if you’re like us, you’re swamped with work.

Looking at the pile of emails that’s accumulated in your inbox over the weekend can get a little depressing and you might not know how you should best begin.

Not only do we work on this website every day (it’s a labor of love), but we’re also in the IT business, which means we also work full time on internet sites at work.

As you can imagine, managing an extremely popular site like the Online Alarm Clock, in addition to a horde of large client websites means that time management is extremely important.

We’re sure that a lot of you reading this are in a similar position: you have too many tasks to perform, and seemingly not enough time in which to get them all done.

So please take advantage of the following Online Clock Time Management Tips:

1. Make a list. Any kind of list: a plain text file in Windows notebook is what we prefer, instead of anything fancier. Try using this tool for creating simple lists.
2. Prioritize. Before you begin working on anything, you need to prioritize the items on your list. This can help you avoid spending way too much time on tasks that in reality aren’t all that important
3. Delegate, delegate, delegate: if there is someone else in the office who can do the task, give it to him or her without hesitation. You can only be successful if you keep the big picture in mind.
4. Don’t get distracted. Once you’ve made your list and have prioritized the items and are ready to begin, you must make sure that other, newer tasks that might land in your lap don’t succeed in distracting you from your goal. This is easier to say than to do: whenever coworkers come to you with important tasks, it’s sometimes necessary to tell them that they must wait.
5. Make a plan for how much you expect to finish each day, and then do your best to achieve this quota. Only in this manner can you actually make true progress.
6. Set intermittent alarms as reminders that the time limit you’ve allocated for each task has been used up. This will help you keep on schedule and assure that, at the end of the day, you’ve accomplished all that you’ve set out to.
7. Take breaks and try not to work overtime. Working like a demon at a wild pace might help you get more done, but only in the short term. Learn to call it quits at a reasonable hour and then to shed yourself of worries and thoughts about work once you’ve left the office. Only in this manner do you have a good chance of returning to work refreshed and ready to accomplish more the next day. Don’t be tempted to burn the midnight oil: this will ultimately lead to burnout, and by burning out you’ll end up being far less productive than if you’d worked at a slower, steadier pace.
8. Finally, ignore 99% of the Time Management-related bullshit which you can find on the internet! Truly, Time Management effectively just comes down to common sense. You don’t need expensive programs or books in order to learn how to manage your time more effectively. You just need to slow down, develop a routine that works for you and then follow your own good common sense. Chances are, you already have a good idea of what you need to change in order to work more effectively.

We’re not saying that our Online Alarm Clock is a sure-fire method of improving your productivity. However, it can indeed help.

We’ve received feedback from many persons telling us that, by using our Alarm Clock to set simple reminders at work, they have been able to get much more work done.

For this task we not only have our normal Alarm Clock – we also have a Stopwatch function that can help you keep track of how much time you’re spending working on a specific task.

Try making a note beforehand regarding how much time you’d like to spend working on a specific task, and then use one of our Timers to help you stick to your Time Schedule according to plan. You can either set an Alarm Clock to remind you when the time has come to switch tasks, or you can set an Online Stopwatch or Timer to keep track of how many minutes have gone by.

Be sure to check out our entire collection of Time Tools in order to find the the ones that work the best for you.

Online Clock is glad to play a small part in helping you manage your time more effectively!

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We’re proud to announce that everyone’s favorite Alarm Clock now has a presence on Twitter and Facebook.

If you’re a user of OnlineClock.net, we’d be very glad if you became a follower of us on Twitter, or a fan of our page on Facebook…or even both!

Online Clock is on Twitter

Online Clock is on Facebook

The web is a social medium, and that’s something pretty cool. We’re getting into the act by becoming involved promoting the world’s original Online Alarm Clock.

On both our Twitter and Facebook fan pages you’ll find frequent updates in the forms of listings of sites which have mentioned OnlineClock. We try to update these listings several times a day, so there should just about always be something new for you to discover.

We like to monitor who’s talking about us, and as soon as there’s a buzz about Online Clock somewhere we’ll be posting it up on our Twitter and Facebook pages.

One of the things that might strike you as interesting (especially if you’re a fan) when looking at the various sites that’ve mentioned the Online Alarm Clock is that they come from a very wide variety of different countries and are written in a wide range of different languages. This is of course proof that Online Clock has become an international phenomenon and encourage you to simply take part in our various social media communities and share the fun with your family and friends!

Our Facebook page additionally offers you the opportunity to discuss our website via an online discussion board, and shows you our ever-growing gallery of images and screenshots relating to OnlineClock.net.

So please – if you like or use OnlineClock.net, do us a favor and give us a little bit of your social media love !

Thanks in advance from the entire team at the Online Alarm Clock website.

P.S. : Please don’t forget – we’re also on YouTube ! If you like our Online Clock videos, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube newsfeed to keep informed whenever we’ve released a new one. And while we’re at it, let’s not forget Flickr !

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Minute Timer in Green: Looking kinda Online Clocky, huh?

Minute Timer in Scrumptious Blue: How ya like us Now?!

Hey, Online Clock fans, it’s that time once again when we announce a new addition to the OnlineClock family of online alarm clocks.

Yes, indeed – we’ve created a new clock!

This one’s called the Minute Timer.

“What does it do”, you may ask?

Well, it counts down any given number of minutes.

“What, no bells, no whistles, no smoke and mirrors, no kitchen sink and five hundred other kinds of Ajax / Ruby / slight of hand magic?”

That’s right.

We’re serious about our simplicity. Not to mention too lazy to build all that complicated stuff.

If you don’t like it, go find some other lame website that has built itself up by becoming as complicated as possible! A site so complicated that you can’t even figure out how to use the damned thing anymore, at least, when it doesn’t happen to be offline due to some hacker having exploited a gaping security library in its neat-o special Scriptorific JavaScript dynamic Ajax do-wah-diddy library!

Do we sound bitter?

Well, we’re not… Well, we are! Ha ha. And we truly should not have had that last cup of coffee

All seriousness aside, folks, we hope our humble Minute Timer will serve you well.

Here are some suggested uses for it:

1. Time how long it takes you to turn blue after holding your breath
2. Time how long it takes the stock market to reverse all of its recent gains
3. Count down the last minute of your work day (the longest minute in the world?!)
4. Time how long it takes you to steep that teabag of Cassis-Cranberry-Mocha-Chai Tea you purchased at the gourmet store into one perfect cup of Yuppie Brew (did I say Yuppie? Man, that’s so 80s!)
5. On your first date? Well, you could time how long it takes you to…er, walk her home
6. Time those commercial breaks on your TV
7. You could use it to time the fastest event in the world, though you’d probably be better off using laser-cooled cesium atomic fountain frequency standards, known as cesium atomic fountain clocks (and yes, trying to read that page makes our brains hurt!)

Hey, are you guys having fun reading these blog posts? (Well, if not – don’t answer that question.)

We see the number of our subscribers increasing, and we have to say that writing these posts has somehow turned the corner from being a chore into being something that’s actually a lot of fun. Sheesh, when we think back on how awful our first posts on this blog were, we almost have to hide our clock faces in shame…but it’s all about learning while doing, you know?

Anyway, it’s great to see the traffic numbers for this blog increase over time and we’re glad many of you have become subscribers and loyal readers.

Stay tuned, clock fans:  if it’s fun for us, chances are it’ll be interesting for you to read.

…Well, maybe not, but it sounded good, didn’t it?

This blog post was written while listening to The Cars. Let the good times rolllllllll…

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This story begins back in 2006, the year in which Online Clock was born.

The first version of Online Clock went live on March 24th, 2006.

But it wasn’t until about a month later, on April 25th, 2005, that Archive.org first began indexing the world’s first online alarm clock website.

The people behind our Online Alarm site are simply humble web developers who had a great idea. (How we came up with this idea is a story unto itself which will be touched upon in a future blog post!)

The idea of creating an online alarm clock, a website that could be used as an alarm clock directly in your web browser, is a big one. We knew it would be a success as soon as the idea came to us. So it’s not surprising that hordes of imitators have sprung up over the years…

In the beginning it took about six months for things to start taking off. For several months our alarm clock site was online, but no one really noticed it. Then slowly some Spanish-language bloggers somehow discovered and began blogging about us.

But then suddenly, things took off, and they did so with a bang…and this is something that we’ll never forget.

And the truth is: we had nothing to do with it.

On September 6th, 2006, someone posted a story about our online alarm clock on Digg.com. On the very next day, this story made it to Digg’s front page and the world has never been the same for us since!

We can remember that our servers went down at least three times while our story was on Digg’s front page. Our web hoster at the time, once we’d contacted them and explained the reason for the huge sudden increase in traffic, did a valiant job of getting the server back online and keeping it online.

Screen Shot of the Digg Story that started it all!

As a result of getting on the front page of Digg, hundreds of people with blogs wrote blog articles about the world’s first online alarm clock…and our business was suddenly off and running.

It didn’t take long to discover that the new visitors OnlineClock.net received from all these blog posts kept coming back to use our alarm clock again and again…and that the idea of a browser-based alarm clock was an idea whose time had come.

Shortly after the immediate traffic rush was over, and the story about Online Clock had disappeared from Digg’s front page, our web hoster told us politely that we had outgrown their services and should instead seek a dedicated server somewhere else.

Since then, we’ve outgrown at least three other web hosters…which, we have learned, is one of the “problems” of having an extremely successful website: you must keep scaling your hosting power upward. We’ve now come to accept this “problem” and we now even welcome it, each time such a change becomes necessary!

We at Online Clock would now like to sincerely thank Digg.com and all the people who have blogged about us, posted stories about us, or in any other way shown their support for us over our three year-plus long history.

Thank you for making OnlineClock.net a big success!

We look forward to being your favorite alarm clock for a very long time to come

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By this we don’t mean more complicated or more feature-rich. We mean simpler. Better. Easier to use. For everyone – not just for the readers of TechCrunch. We’re talking about your Moms and Dads here, folks. We love technology, but we’re not techno-snobs.

(We’ve already laid out our design philosophy in past posts.)

Back about a year ago we added two buttons to our ‘Off’ page at the suggestion of a loyal user.

Now we’re here to tell you about a cool way to make it extra hard to fall back asleep too easily when our clock’s alarm goes off.

We discovered this in a “tweet” someone made about us on Twitter:

First of all, Nick Bernstein – thank you!

We’re glad you find our alarm clock useful. We love hearing stuff like this.

Secondly, what a genius idea: using the password-protection function for Windows Screensavers to make it so that you’ll have to type in your password in order to turn off our godawfully ugly alarm sound.

Nick, you officially get an OnlineClock Gold Star for this idea:

1. Select your desired Alarm Time on our site
2. Right-Click on an empty portion of your Windows Desktop and select Properties
3. Choose the Screen Saver tab
4. Place a check next to “On resume, password protect”
5. If you haven’t already selected a screensaver from the pulldown menu, go ahead and do this (Duh!)

That’s it – you’re ready to clock and roll!

Of course, you can hear the alarm sound even when your screensaver is running. Test it first. It works.

In order to turn off the alarm, you’ll have to enter in your password.

It’s so simple, it’s genius…er, kind of like a particular website we’re familiar with…(Ahem, sorry!).

The only drawback is that you can’t see our beautiful Digital Clock if your screensaver comes on…but, hey, maybe you’ll be sleeping anyway. If this is the case (and only if!), then we guess it’s OK.

And why, you ask, should you go to all the trouble of password-protecting your alarm?

Why, to combat the evil Snooze Demons, of course!

We hope you enjoy this brilliant new password-protected alarm function we’ve now added to all of our Online Alarm Clocks.

You know we’ve worked long and hard developing it for you.

Nick Bernstein, enjoy that star, buddy. But don’t let us find it showing up in any pawn shop…

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Well, it’s true: we offer many different flavors in addition to plain vanilla!

For this reason, we thought it’d be a good idea to create a post that formally introduces all of the various clocks, timers, alarms and countdowns on our entire website, with short descriptions for what each one does, plus links to where you can find each of them.

So, without further ado, we hereby invite you to Meet the Online Clock Family:

The Analog Alarm Clock is an online clock using a traditional round clock face. As with all of our clocks, you can change the size of the clock face as well as the clock’s background color. Sure, you know about our digital alarm clock, but we think you might not be familiar with this, our analog version!

The Space Clock is the newest member of our Online Clock Family. The Space Clock is a rectangular kind of Binary Alarm Clock. See if you’re up to the challenge of figuring out how you can read the time using our Space Clock. We personally love Binary Clocks of all kinds…but, of course, we’re Clock Geeks.

The Binary Alarm Clock is a binary clock using spheres or balls to show the time in a binary format. As with the Space Clock, you read the time on binary clocks like this one using a different kind of system than you use for reading the time on conventional clocks. If you get stuck and can’t quite figure out how to read the time on our Binary Alarm Clock, just click the ‘Key’ link to see a hint that might help you.

Online Clock’s Mobile Alarm Clock is, you guessed it, an Online Alarm Clock designed for mobile devices. Since we don’t personally own all of the different kinds of mobile devices out there, Online Clock would be very grateful if you’d test our Mobile Alarm Clock on your mobile device and send us an email if there are problems. The Mobile Alarm Clock can of course also be used in a normal web browser, if you like, and here’s an interesting tip for you: try opening it as a pop-up from our Sitemap Page. Using the Mobile Alarm Clock in your browser can conserve “browser space”.

Want to Count Down to the weekend, New Year’s Eve, or just your birthday? Then try using our Countdown Timer. Our Countdown Timer is actually one of the most popular clocks on our entire site. People write us to tell us they enjoy using this timer to count down the date and time for any purpose you can imagine. Try it out for yourself and see why people love it! When you’ve chosen your desired date & time to count down to, you can close your browser at any time and then revisit the Countdown Timer again later…your chosen target date & time will be saved in a browser cookie.

Military Time Alarm Clock. Do you live in Europe? Or do you just prefer clocks in the 24 Hour Format like us? The 24 Hour Format rocks…it’s just clock-geekier than the normal AM/PM format and it’s also more precise. Our experience shows that it’s pretty easy to get used to using the Military Time format. Check out our Military Time Alarm Clock and give Military Time a test run for a change of pace.

Our Online Stopwatch is a stopwatch and it’s…you guessed it…online. Not a heck of a lot more to say about it, except that it also offers a cool Split Feature that works like the Lap function you might be familiar with, if you’re a runner.  It also has the nice feature that you can temporarily pause your time by clicking the Stop button, and then resume it later by clicking the same button again.

And now we come to what we regard as our greatest invention: a Clock Radio you can use in your Web Browser. We were the first to invent this, folks!…so when our imitators start placing their copies of this idea online, please remember who brought it to you first! Online Clock did indeed invent the world’s first-ever Clock Radio that you can use for free in your web browser. Just choose your desired kind of online radio station – music, talk, whatever, and then enjoy the literally hundreds of different stations we make available to you!

Oh yeah, before we end this post presenting the entire Online Alarm Clock Family, please note:

We also have an alarm clock.

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OnlineClock.net Proudly Dedicates its New Space Clock to the Men & Women Serving on the Starship Enterprise

It’s been some time since we’ve released a new online alarm clock at OnlineClock.net.

But all of you Clock Fans can now rejoice, because this post is here to announce the arrival of a new addition to the Online Clock family of online alarm clocks: The Space Clock.

The Space Clock is a another form of Binary Clock, such as our binary clock here.

Instead of a round display with spheres or circles, however, our new Binary Clock uses a rectangular design which we find way cool:

Why do we call it the Space Clock ?

Well, perhaps in honor of the time we found a copy of our online alarm clock on Nasa’s webserver.

Or perhaps because the Space Clock reminds us of something you’d see on Captain Kirk’s dashboard on the Starship Enterprise?

Or maybe because we just didn’t want to name it “Binary Clock 2“?

And probably due to all of these reasons…

Whatever the case, we hope you’ll find our new Space Clock both amusing and useful. Like all our online clocks, it also works as a fully functional online alarm clock which you can use to set helpful alarms and reminders online for free. Use it to remind yourself of upcoming meetings or set it on your laptop overnight to wake yourself up in the morning.

The time on our new Space Clock can be read by adding up the small numbers which appear in the clock’s rectangles.

The first time you look at the clock this might not seem so obvious. But just give it a try – it’s actually pretty easy.

We’ve avoided adding any kind of ‘legend’ or key that explains how to read the clock because we didn’t want to disturb its minimal layout, and we also think it’s just more fun if you try to figure out how to read the time without our help.

So, please visit our new clock and – get spacey!

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