{"id":87,"date":"2009-07-05T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T20:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-07-05T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T20:36:36","slug":"tiktok-timer-for-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/07\/tiktok-timer-for-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Timer for Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently needed a stopwatch at work, and forgot that my cell phone had that built in.\u00a0 So I went looking for one for the Palm.\u00a0\u00a0 What I found is way better than just a stopwatch!<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Read about TikTok Timer in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikemccollister.com\/palm\/#TikTok\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok Timer for Palm<\/a> is, as the developer&#8217;s web site says, &#8220;&#8230;a simple, no nonsense, timer utility for  \ta Palm OS device&#8230;&#8221;.\u00a0 It does multiple countdown and count-up (stopwatch) timers simultaneously, with an easy to use interface.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t new software (most recent revision is 2006), but I don&#8217;t care as long as it works!\u00a0 And it does.<\/p>\n<p>The most negative thing I&#8217;ve found about it so far is that after TikTok Timer fires an alarm from a countdown timer, the Palm takes a while (5-10 seconds) to begin responding to keys and stylus taps again.<\/p>\n<p>It is very easy to support a GTD 2 minute action timer, by pre-defining a 2 minute countdown timer and setting it so you don&#8217;t get stuck Doing a long action when you&#8217;re supposed to be Processing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve set up mine with 2, 5, and 15 minute timers predefined, and finding it very useful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using a Palm Z22, it ought to work on any earlier Palm, and many later ones.\u00a0 Give it a try if you&#8217;re in need of a timer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently needed a stopwatch at work, and forgot that my cell phone had that built in.\u00a0 So I went looking for one for the Palm.\u00a0\u00a0 What I found is way better than just a stopwatch! The TikTok Timer for Palm is, as the developer&#8217;s web site says, &#8220;&#8230;a simple, no nonsense, timer utility for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}