{"id":7104,"date":"2014-02-28T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2014-02-28T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:54:37","slug":"julia-wants-a-free-cooking-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/julia-wants-a-free-cooking-timer\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia wants a free cooking timer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia wants a free cooking timer
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m a little embarrassed to send another question especially since you published the last one but I hope it helped some others that were stationary freaks like myself. I have been using yours you designed for the Windows Live Mail which are very, very nice. Also the pictures were so nice about finding the property\u2019s in WLM messages. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Now my question is: Do you know of a free Timer for Cooking to download onto the Computer. I\u2019ve looked at several but I\u2019m not sure if they are safe or will give me some kind of toolbar I don\u2019t want or need. I don\u2019t like to have to eat \u201cBurnt Offerings\u201d as a meal just because I was engulfed on the computer and didn\u2019t hear my stove timer. Besides I\u2019m not God and I don\u2019t think He would want me to be eating like that anyway. Frankly it\u2019s not good!. Hope you can help. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Our answer
\n<\/strong>Hi Julia, thanks! At first I thought you were looking for free cooking lessons, and I’d be happy to teach you, but cooking for and feeding EB takes up most of my time. And considering she only lets me out of the basement once a week, I would not be able to help you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

However, I can help you with a cooking timer…<\/p>\n

Now I am not one for timers as I’m never on time, and I am an old timer, but as far as timers go, this was the best kitchen timers I tried (I tried 4 of them). With no adware, or spyware, no malware at all (as of February 27, 2014), this is the best timer I was able to find. And do not worry, although this thing hasn’t been updated since 2008, I tested it on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 (64bit) and it worked great. It will work on 32bit computers too.<\/p>\n

Here’s the scoop from the Dinner Timer Web site:<\/p>\n

Dinner Timer<\/p>\n

Version : 1.1
\nReleased : 28-Aug-2008
\nFilesize : 8.48Mb
\nCost : FREE!<\/p>\n

New Features :<\/p>\n

The timer is now resizable with the time expanding\/shrinking to fill the available area so it’s usable from a much greater distance.
\n<\/em>
\nImproved font rendering for less jagged display of time \u2013 esp. when large.<\/p>\n

New Twitter notifier \u2013 now you can notify your friends and family automatically when you start dinner, when it will be ready, tweet notifications when it’s about to be ready, when it’s ready and through Dinner Timer Lite’s unique overrun timer tweet when the dinners burnt.<\/p>\n

Improved bubble notifications \u2013 both the bubble and twitter notifiers now support text template replacements. Include any of the following for them to be replaced with the appropriate values when run : {{RunMins}}, {{StartTime}}, {{EndTime}}, {{MinsRemaining}}, {{MinsOverrun}}.<\/p>\n

Additional sounds for the sound notifier including : Cow moo, Air horn, Alarm beep, Alarm clock beep, Alarm ring, All clear, Ambulance, Aooga horn, Boat air horn, Boing, Boing2, Boxing bell multi, Bullet ricochet, Buzzer, Buzzer 2, Buzzer 3, Buzzer 4, Buzzer 5, Buzzer heavy, Buzz through loud, Buzz thru, Chainsaw.
\n<\/em>
\nThe time options available in the drop down list is now user configurable and includes the ability to name the times. e.g. you can enter a timer called \u201cPizza\u201d and have it set as a 12 minute timer, the list will then show Pizza which can be easily selected and when the timer is started it will run for 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

New installer with a single exe so no unzipping required. Binaries and installer are now digitally signed.<\/em>\u00a0Various under-the-cover improvements to facilitate some new features in the next release.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well apparently the next release will be a doozie since it’s been six years in the making. Maybe the next release will cook for you too?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I tested it on Windows 7 and Windows 8, just to remind you again. And\u00a0 you can get even more information and\/or download Dinner Timer Lite (Freeware) from:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dinnertimer.com\/Download.aspx<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0
\n<\/strong>
\n\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

I don’t know what Dinner Timer Heavy does. I didn’t see one \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Cook lightly, eat lightly, with Dinner Timer Lite \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia wants a free cooking timer I\u2019m a little embarrassed to send another question especially since you published the last one but I hope it helped some others that were stationary freaks like myself. I have been using yours you designed for the Windows Live Mail which are very, very nice. Also the pictures were so nice about\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7107,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}