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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How many of you love a good game of Twister?

Twister, of course, is Milton Bradley’s classic game of gymnastic fun (and no we’re not referring to the naked version of the game), where a spinner shows you a colored dot that you have to place one of your hands or feet on. You play against opponents, and no two persons can occupy the same dot on the large, bright-colored mat that serves as the game area:

Twister Rocks!

Well, shake it up, baby, now, (shake it up, baby)

Twist and shout. (twist and shout)

Cmon, cmon, cmon, cmon, baby, now, (come on baby)

Come on and work it on out. (work it on out, wuu!)

(Lyrics, Twist and Shout from The Beatles, 1963

Well, someone’s come along and taken the idea of Twister to…yes…the Alarm Clock.

No, you don’t have to gyrate with your entire body into the right position on a brightly-colored mat in order to turn off the alarm sound (that would be really cool). Instead, the Finger Twister Alarm Clock forces you to “dance” in the proper pattern with your fingers on a small plastic pad, in order to turn off the alarm. Have a look at the manufacturer’s image below, in order to better understand this wacky concept for an alarm clock gadget:

Yes, this is of course an incredibly strange idea for an alarm clock. It must be said that the product itself, in all honesty, looks incredibly lame.

We ask you: How much valuable plastic is yet to be sacrificed, in order to quell the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for strange alarm clocks?!

Think of all the other fine things we could instead be creating from all that plastic, instead of these ridiculous alarm clock gadgets:

• credit cards
• kewpie dolls
• Tamagotchis
• computers
• false teeth
• bongs
• poseable action figures
• reusable christmas trees

It’s truly a shame. All we have instead is this ridiculous Finger Twister Alarm Clock!

If you’re still interested in the Finger Twister Alarm Clock after reading this, then here are a few simple facts about the product:

It has a digital clock face with a backlight and a snooze function. As aforementioned,  its most prominent feature is the mini disco dance floor for your fingers…so, put boogie shoes on your fingers, baby – it’s time to dance!

You can purchase the Finger Twister Alarm Clock at ThumbsUpUK. (But only if you’re lame.)

Hey, if you do buy this alarm clock, maybe you can use those new finger dancing skills you’re developing on your next date!

(Of course, by that we’re referring to nothing more than advanced handshaking…)

Because this alarm clock is so lame, we wanted to leave you with a little reminder about just how truly great the original Twister game from Milton Bradley is.

So here’s their original T.V. spot from the 1960’s to advertise Twister to the masses.

Watch & listen to the video, as we twist and shout on outta here…until next time, Clock Fans!

Tags: alarm clock gadgets, Crazy Alarm Clocks, Crazy Clocks, finger twister alarm, finger twister alarm clock, milton bradley, twister, twister alarm, twister alarm clock

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How many of you are Star Wars fans?

Star Wars is cool because most of the films were genuinely well made and they contained great characters.

The coolest of the Star Wars characters is of course…Lord Darth Vader himself.

We are not personally fans of the Dark Side of the Force, but we still consider ourselves big fans of Darth Vader.

Lately while monitoring the Blogosphere for posts and news about new alarm clocks, we’ve become aware of just how many different Darth Vader Alarm Clocks there are on the market!

It’s truly amazing how many different examples of Darth Vader alarm clocks and alarm clock radios we’ve been able to find, and some of these actually look pretty darn neat.

So here’s a run-through on the “Dark Side of the Force” alarm clocks we’ve been able to find so far (if you know of any that we’ve left out, do us a favor and leave a comment with a link to some others). We’ll start with the coolest of these alarm clocks and work our way down to the lamest examples, OK?

Darth Vader Clock Radio

Yes, here we have the coolest of the bunch, in the form of the Darth Vader Clock Radio. This is an AM/FM Clock Radio in the likeness of the Dark Lord himself. As you can see the hour display fills up his right eye socket and the minute display fills up the eye socket on his left. Tweak the knobs near Darth’s snout to adjust the volume level and to tune in your favorite radio station. The design is well done, since the entire clock radio is composed of Darth’s mask. Cool clock!

Next up we have the Standing Darth Vader Projection Alarm Clock (but sorry – there’s no clock radio function on this hunk ‘o plastic):

The Standing Darth Vader Projection Alarm Clock projects the time on your ceiling.

The standing figure of old Darth-Baby in this alarm clock doesn’t appear to move at all, which is lame. What’s kind of cool is the fact that, along with the current time, the Dark Lord’s last name (”Vader”, duh…!) is projected onto the ceiling…kind of like a bat-signal for the Dark Lord. Also, the red bubble on the right side of the image is actually a snooze button (OK, points off for that, because we hate snooze buttons). But what’s cool is that this red dome also acts as a night light, which might be useful for Junior, if he’s not too thrilled with seeing Darth-Baby staring him down in the middle of the night.

This brings us to the third and final installment of this post about Dark Side of the Force Alarm Clocks. This time we have a somewhat older video of a television commercial from the U.S. retail store Target. Apparently Target made a foray into offering wake-up calls to people as a service. (You know the deal: you sign up and request that someone calls you on the telephone early in the morning to wake you up…this is a service offered by most hotels.) What’s kind of interesting is that they apparently thought that a lot of people would get a kick out of receiving a wake up call from, you guessed it, the Dark Lord himself!:

Well, let’s just say that the world seems to be not yet ready for the idea of wake-up calls from Darth Vader, because Target has apparently discontinued their wake-up call service.

We actually discovered several other video demonstrations of Star Wars-related alarm clocks while doing research for this blog post.

If this subject interests you, please feel free to take a look at our Star Wars Clocks playlist on YouTube. In our video playlist you’ll find links to several other Star Wars alarm clock videos which haven’t been mentioned in this post.

Until we meet each other again, Luke: may the (non-Dark Side of the) Force be with you!

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OK, in today’s post I’ll be reviewing the awfully tacky and exceedingly hideous sexist Pole Dancer Alarm Clock.

Take a look at a video demonstrating this creepy hunk of plastic in action, everyone:

Now I ask you: what kind of jerk buys this kind of junk? I mean, this alarm clock is not only incredibly sexist but it’s also…just plain ugly, don’t you agree?

I think that someone has to have the design aesthetics of a diseased cockroach in order to come up with something this tacky.

How many plastic bottles were recycled in vain only to be reincarnated as this? Just think of all the Tamagotchis that could’ve been made out that plastic instead, what a shame!

Maybe I’m being a little bit oversensitive here, but is there anything redeeming about this alarm clock?

Here, in order to give the object full credit, let’s at least run down the fine features list for this alarm clock gadget:

1. Comes complete with one blond plastic “babe” (and no, not of the blow-up variety)
2. Comes complete with one miniature stripper club pole
3. Comes with flashing disco strobe lights
4. Comes complete with a revolving stage
5. Comes complete with monotonous and repetitive music, kind of like mutant Casio disco
6. Comes complete with a bouncer named Guido who will break your legs if you try to touch the dancer (well, not really: that’s a feature request for version 2.0)

Yes, fans of fine art everywhere: this little blond beauty could be yours!

I mean, crude humor sometimes has its place…but the Pole Dancer Alarm Clock is not even funny.

Well, on second thought, yes it is.

If your name is Guido and you work as the doorman at a stripper club, you definitely want to buy this Sexist Alarm Clock to make your little love nest complete.

We’re sure it’ll do wonders to put your little sweetheart in the right mood for you, if you know what I mean (nudge nudge, wink wink).

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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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The Clockmaster is here to remind you...

The Clockmaster lives a solitary life tending to a large clock.

He began one day by creating the clock as a hobby. It was a labor of love.

The Clockmaster had always been fascinated by clocks of all shapes and sizes. Big clocks. Small clocks. Battery-powered clocks and solar energy clocks. Clocks with alarms and clocks without alarms. Clock collecting was the way it began. It started as a hobby born out of obsession.

What is the fascination with clocks?

Their ticking is like the sound of the ocean waves crashing against the shore. There is something reassuring in it, in the fact that it is continuous, that it just keeps going on.

But there is also something vaguely threatening in the sound of a clock ticking, or in the continous motion of a clock movement. It is a reminder of our own mortality.

How much time is left?

The continuous movement of a clock is a nudge on our shoulders, reminding us that the time we have here is short. It is an hourglass running out of sand. And we’d better be aware of this, so that we’re sure not to miss out on something, before our time runs out.

The Clockmaster has as his burden the task of reminding us that we will all die one day, when our time runs out. It is sometimes an unpleasant task, reminding people of this, because none of us wants to die. But then there is the sound of the ocean’s waves, infinite waves crashing again and again against the rocks.

Are you a clock lover or a clock hater?

Do you know how much time you have left?

What are you going to do with it?

Do you know what it is you’re doing here, and have you set your house in order?

The Clockmaster would like to know…

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We recently wrote about how Digg gave Online Clock our first big break.

But in addition to Digg, we have to be thankful to the large legion of bloggers who have written about OnlineClock.net over the years.

To the best of our knowledge the first blog to write about Online Clock was the Spanish-language technology blog GenBeta:

GenBeta Logo - The First Blog to Write About Online Clock!

And, regarding the first version of Online Clock that they wrote about, it was a lot different from the clock that we all know and love today!

Back when we first launched we played around with the idea of creating an all-Flash Online Alarm Clock. However, once we decided on a Freemium business model (a free, advertising-supported service), we realized that online ad delivery was extremely important. Suffice it to say that if you have an all Flash site, or a site that’s mostly built in Flash, it’s more difficult to incorporate advertising into your content.

We knew from the beginning that, if we didn’t generate ad revenue, we couldn’t afford the powerful servers that host Online Clock, and couldn’t afford to pay any further marketing costs…all of which are necessary evils.

So, take a gander at the earliest version of the Online Alarm Clock on record in this screenshot of the original GenBeta post entitled, “Online clock, tu reloj online con alarma“:

What’s amazing to us, looking back at this blog entry, is that it’s dated March 28th, 2006. As you can tell by our domain’s WhoIs information, we actually registered our domain first on March 26th, 2006…just four days before this blog post was published! Those guys at GenBeta found us in a hurry, and we’re thankful for that. In case you’re wondering, on the same day the domain was registered, the first version of Online Clock actually went live.

We know what you’re thinking, “What kind of a crazy, cigar-shaped Online Alarm Clock was that?!”.

And you’re right…it was kind of goofy, as you’ll note from the screenshot of the blog post above. Thank god we soon ditched this early version and latched onto the lean, mean, black clock machine everyone now knows and loves!

If you’re interested in taking a closer look at this earlier version of our Online Alarm, the original blog post is still online…or you can read it translated into English here. (Yes, it’s short, but as with many things in life, it’s not the size that matters!)

We hope some of you have enjoyed this little trip down Online Clock Memory Lane.

We love OnlineClock.net and we love reminiscing about how we got started!

And to all our friends at GenBeta, we say: Gracias!

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Hey Clock Fans, it's time for a little alarm clock history lesson!

Alarm clocks are something we all take for granted, but who invented the alarm clock?

The best knowledge we have on this subject indicates that alarm clocks were invented at around 250 BC in ancient Greece.

In ancient Greece there were of course no alarm clocks as we know them. Instead they had created a kind of water clock. Water clocks used a regularly dripping stream of water to measure time. The alarm function was set off when a lever triggered a kind of whistling sound.

Besides water clocks, the other earliest kind of clocks on record were sundials.

The sundial: looks kinda nice, but don't depend on it to wake you up in time for work. (Then again, it has some disadvantages, too...)

Everyone knows that sundials measure the time based on the position of the sun; many of us still have sundials in our gardens to this day, simply because they look neat and are useful as well as decorative. Sundials, however, had no alarm mechanisms. “So if they had no alarm function, what the heck are sundials doing appearing in this post?”, you might ask. To that I would reply, “Hey buddy, go write your own blog!,” simply because I’m unable to think of anything wittier at the moment. Ok, I digress…

So when we refer to alarm clocks, actually we have in mind the first mechanical alarm clocks, and the first of these were invented probably sometime in the 14th century. The first mechanical alarm clocks were not for home use, however. Instead, these were striking clock towers on public display.

Towers with clocks on them sometimes had devices which would strike off the hours so that everyone in a town or village would know what time it was. Many of us have clock towers near where we live that still strike off the hours each day.

The Clock Tower Alarm Clock: how'd you like to get a wake up call from one of these babies next to your pillow?

Regarding the first small mechanical alarm clocks, many attribute the first alarm clock of this kind to inventor Taqi al-Din in the Turkish empire. He wrote a book back in 1559 describing how he’d built a kind of mechanical alarm clock.

Another early mechanical alarm clock was invented by Levi Hutchins from New Hampshire, USA. Mr. Hutchins created an alarm clock that always went off at 4:00 a.m., since he wanted to wake up at this time each and every day; but his alarm clock was not available for sale.

Which brings us to the subject of commercial alarm clocks: when were the first alarm clocks manufactured for sale?

The first patent for an alarm clock dates back to 1847 and was awarded to French inventor Antoine Redier. The Seth Thomas Clock Company was awarded a different patent in 1876 for its small bedside alarm clocks, and these probably became the first smaller alarm clocks for home use that were actually manufactured.

So, by the late 1870s, alarm clocks for the home had become popular and were being sold in larger quantities. One of the first alarm clock manufacturers in the entire world was the company Westclox.

This brings us, more or less, to the present day and age.

The most significant recent innovation regarding alarm clocks happened of course in early 2006, when the online alarm clock was invented, thus beginning a new chapter in alarm clock history!

To that we can only say: hey Alarm Clocks, you rock !

Main Sources:

Wikipedia
ClockHistory.com

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It's not a real telephone - it just looks like one, get it?!

How many of you use your mobile phones as an alarm clock?

I bet a lot of you do…it just makes sense, if you’re traveling and don’t want to pack an alarm clock. (That is, if you’re not afraid of some of the health warnings about mobile phones out there. I know I wouldn’t want to sleep with my mobile phone positioned right next to my head.)

I don’t imagine many of us travel without our mobile phones. These days, you can even use most modern mobile phones while traveling abroad, so there’s certainly no reason to leave it at home while you’re on the road.

But this post isn’t about that kind of telephone alarm clock.

Instead, we’re talking here about old-fashioned telephone alarm clocks: the cheesy kind of alarm clocks that are simply in the shape of a telephone.

Why in the world would anyone want to purchase such an abomination?

I mean, these things look ridiculous, right? I guess the only reason someone would want one of these things is as a gag: some people apparently find it humorous to have an alarm clock that looks like something other than what it truly is.

Ok, so the makers of this telephone alarm clock apparently thought it’d be a witty idea to try to recreate the experience of getting a hotel wake up call.

Interesting idea. Why is it so lame, then?

Because it violates the number one rule of design: never disguise a product’s function by having it look like a decoy for something else.

To make my point, let me cite a couple of examples.

Here’s a short list of other Design Travesties, carefully selected to make my point about the Telephone-Shaped Alarm Clock:

Brick Textured Wallpaper: it's just wallpaper, made to look like a brick wall...though it doesn't fool anyone. Hideous? Yes.

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Is the Baby Arms & Legs Coat Rack your idea of elegance? Or do you prefer instead having a home that does not look like Hannibal Lecter's?

If you have a product…what’s the matter with that product looking like what it actually is, instead of being some weird kind of gimmicky piece ‘o crap?!Or are we alone in this opinion?

If so, please feel free to wallpaper your mobile home in early American ‘faux brick’.

If you haven’t been scared away from this product by this “anti-review”, you can actually purchase Telephone Alarm Clocks here and here.

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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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