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Copy the widget code in full or the widget may not display the correct countdown, and may cease to work after a period. The link to mycountdown.org in the widget code leads information regarding other people with the countdown. The link also allows the widget service to be free of charge. We appreciate your help in keeping this service alive. 3-2-1 is a countdown timer for Dashboard (OS X). It displays hours, minutes, and seconds, includes a lap function and is resizable. You can label each countdown (useful if you run more than one at a time), enter your own messages (to appear when a countdown has finished) and choose any sound to play. Desktop Countdown Timer For PC – Windows & Mac The current countdown timers in the timer space are built for narrow simplistic applications. Schedular countdown timer for PC covers these narrow applications of a timer and more in demanding scenarios or events. Clock Widget free download - Multilingual Speaking Clock, Analog Clock, Sharp World Clock, and many more programs. ‪Utilities & tools‬. Cool, Simple to use Timer as well as a great geeky Countdown clock. Know exactly how many days, hours, minutes or even seconds left until that special date or time. See System Requirements.

Free Mac Timer Widget
20,891 downloadsUpdated: February 11, 2013Freeware

Simple and easy to use general purpose countdown timer

Developed for the Yahoo! Widget Engine, Timer Widget is a small application that displays a timer directly on your desktop. It can be easily installed and configured, even by inexperienced users.

The interface of the tool is based on a small frame. In order to activate the timer, all you have to do is click any point of the area inside the window. If you want to adjust the minutes or seconds, all you have to do is click the plus or minus signs next to them.

Alternatively, you can open the right-click menu in order to select preset values, ranging from 2 minutes to one hour. Some of them are defined for specific purposes, such as brewing green or black tea, or for cooking pizza.

From the 'Widget Preferences' screen, you can make some changes to Timer Widget. Therefore, you can alter the default colors for the regular, running and finished time, as well as enable the widget to play a sound when the countdown reaches zero.

Thanks to the default options provided by the Yahoo! Widget Engine, you can make the main frame stay on top or below all the other windows, to ignore mouse events and to prevent dragging. Additionally, you can adjust its opacity level between 20% and 100%.

The small tool does not put a strain on the computer's resources, since it runs on a very low amount of CPU and system memory. It is very responsive to commands and didn't cause us any problems throughout our evaluation, such as freezing, crashing or displaying error dialogs.

However, the timer sound has a low volume and beeps only once. Unfortunately, it does not come with configurable options. Since the Yahoo! Widget Engine project has been discontinued, Timer Widget shall not be receiving further updates.

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Some people have been having problems with the clock widget on the Apple Mac desktop. These are due to the way the clock works. Have as many clocks as you want, showing the places you want.

Some common problems that have arisen with the clock widget on the Mac is that people cannot add or remove cities from the clock. They are unable to edit them and they are stuck with either four or even just one. They want to add more cities or remove ones they do not want. The clock widget is fixed and some things just cannot be changed. However, there are ways to work around this and get what you want.

Some people have tried changing the cities in the clock widget, but have been unable to. Clicking the cities produces no result, or nothing useful. There are two solutions to this clock problem:

  • Restart the Mac: Some people have found that simply restarting makes the clock start working again.
  • Unplug external monitors: If you have more than one screen, like a MacBook with an external monitor, unplug everything, restart the Mac and the clock widget becomes editable.

Let’s take a detailed look at the clock widget and how to configure it.

1 Add a desktop widget on the Mac

To add a widget to the desktop on a Mac, click the clock in the top right corner. This shows recent notifications and below them are widgets. If you have no widgets or notifications, you will see something like this screenshot. If you have notifications or widgets, the Edit Widget button will appear below them all. Click it.

2 Choose a Clock widget

Select Clock on the left and there are two types of widget, City and World Clock. You have a choice of one clock or four and this is fixed. The only option is whether to display the four-clock widget in S (2×2 grid) or M (4×1) layout. Move the mouse over the clock and click the green plus button to add it.

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3 View the clock widget

The four-clock widget appears on the right side of the screen and it shows four clocks, not two, three, five or six. Exactly four and this cannot be changed. Clocks cannot be added or deleted. However, we will see a workaround in a minute. The four default cities probably are not the ones you want to show the time in, so click any part of the widget to edit it.

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4 Change the city order

Clicking the widget flips it over to show a list of the cities. This is the four-clock widgets, so there are four cities. The single city clock has just one city. Click and drag the three bars icon to move a city up or down the list if the order is not what you want.

5 Replace the cities in the clock widget

Click any of the city names, shown in orange, and a list of cities is displayed. Scroll up and down to find cities, click a letter on the right to go to cities beginning with that letter, or simply use the search box at the top to find a city. Some countries have one city, some have multiple cities. The US has the most cities.

6 Add more clocks

Some people try to add more cities to the four-clock widget and this is not possible. What you can do instead is add another widget. For example, you could add another four-clock widget to show the time from eight cities around the world. You wanted five or six clocks, you would add a four-clock widget and one or two single city clocks.

7 Show fewer than four clocks

The single clock widget shows the time in just one city. You cannot delete two clocks from the four-clock widget, but you can show two single-city clocks if you want to show the time in just two places.

8 Edit single city clocks

Click the Done button and the widgets are set. Click the time in the top right corner of the screen and all widgets appear. Here are two single city clock widgets. If you want to change the default city, Ctrl+click a clock and select Edit “Clock” on the menu that is displayed.

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9 Change the city

The single city is displayed and clicking it enables you to choose another one, as we saw in step 5.

10 Edit four-clock widgets

Ctrl+click a four-clock widget and you can edit the cities as before. There are also size settings and you can select Small (2×2) or Medium (4×1) layouts.

11 Show multiple clocks

Don’t try to add clocks to the four-clock widget. If you want five or six, add single-city clocks instead. Here are six clocks showing the time in size different places around the world.

The problems most people have with the clock widget are with trying to change the number of clocks. Just use four-clock and single-clock widgets to make up the number you need. Remember that if you are having problems editing the cities in the click widgets, use a single screen, not a multi-monitor setup.

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