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Originally Posted by bgrigor View Post
Oh yeh, it was not the Egg Timer that I tried and didn't like...it was the Countdown Desktop Widget.

I use a timer so much during my studio work that I'm not really big on these "touch" apps that use sliders and scrolly wheely things to set times. A little direct entry number pad is much quicker. Toast Timer supports multiple named timers that can be cascaded and grouped. Just the ticket for studio work and yet simple enough for even timing an egg (or toast or laundry). I'm hoping someone will grab the PalmOS code from sourceforge.net and give it a native Maemo 5 implementation.
The web to the rescue!

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

You can use this in fullscreen and create a shortcut to this directly on your desktop. Not perfect, but extremely useful, with a simple but sensible interface.

Notice how easy that 'port' was? The same app runs on my desktop windows machine, my tablet N810 Maemo 4 machine, and your N900 Maemo 5 machine. The web is the future of applications.

I believe this very same property to be an advantage of the android method of app execution/bundling. You give up performance, but it's still useful for a great number of applications. However, I also believe that ultimately the web will rule them all given time.

}:^)~

Last edited by Capt'n Corrupt; 2010-01-07 at 13:54.
 

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