{"id":233,"date":"2013-07-09T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/pester\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:27:56","slug":"pester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/pester\/","title":{"rendered":"Pester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a simple way to remind yourself when to leave work in time to catch your train? Or to let you know when it&#8217;s time to meet friends for lunch?<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nOn a Mac, you can do this sort of thing with iCal, but for simple little reminders like this I prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/web.sabi.net\/nriley\/software\/\">Pester<\/a>, a simple alarm-clock freeware program by Nicholas Riley. The interface couldn&#8217;t be simpler: to create a new alarm, just type the alarm message you want displayed, the time (hours:minutes from now, or absolute time\/date) into the window. The Dock icon displays time until the alarm, and at the alarm time Pester foregrounds itself, displays your message, and gives a system sound. Just click enter to dismiss the alarm. Setting an alarm takes only 15-30 seconds, and Pester just runs quietly in the background without consuming any system resources. You can set multiple alarms, but you can&#8217;t set recurring ones. But then, that&#8217;s what iCal is for. Pester is just for the little things, but it&#8217;s great for them. Works on any Mac hardware running OS X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a simple way to remind yourself when to leave work in time to catch your train? Or to let you know when it&#8217;s time to meet friends for lunch? On a Mac, you can do this sort of thing with iCal, but for simple little reminders like this I prefer Pester, a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}