Neat Alarm Clock is a free alarm clock that can wake up your PC from hibernate mode at the specified time. It will turn on the monitor, play the alarm automatically, and play the song that you specified. This makes it special than many similar alarm clocks. You can set multiple alarms using this software and can add custom text message with each alarm. Message will be visible to you in a small pop-up window. You can also edit any alarm or delete it from the list.
Neat Alarm Clock also provide multiple tones to set as alarm tone. But you can also set any mp3 or wav file as alarm. A small window that shows current date, time, and next alarm date is also displayed on bottom left side on desktop screen. You can set opacity of this window or can even close it.
You can see beautiful interface of this free alarm clock in above screenshot and small window that shows next alarm time.
Similar software with other useful features: TTclock, Voice Alarms, and this one.
How To Use This Free Alarm Clock To Wake Up PC from Hibernate?
Grab the link placed at the end of this review to download its zip file (5.32 MB). Run its setup file and complete the installation process. To work with this free alarm clock, Java 1.7 and .NET Framework 4 is also required.
You will find default alarms on its interface. If you want, you can edit these alarms or can create a new alarm.
Use New button for creating a fresh alarm. A new window will open up. Here you need to add all the details regarding the alarm. Set time for your alarm and choose days of week for repetition (if needed). Middle part of this window help you to add a custom message. This message will be displayed when alarm will start.
Bottom part of this window is used to select preset sound, or choose own audio file. You can also set alarm repetition duration and can enable snooze. Finally, you can set the alarm, and hibernate your PC.
On exact date and time, your PC will wake up automatically from hibernation. Alarm will start with your favorite song and purpose of alarm (text message) will also be visible to you.
If you want to sleep for some more time, put the alarm on snooze.
Other Interesting Features:
- You can customize the text size and color for its interface. Use Preferences option for doing this.
- You can add your own image as background for its interface. JPG and PNG images are supported. But this feature didn’t work for me.
- AM/PM format can be set by you.
- You can copy any alarm.
Conclusion:
Neat Alarm Clock is quite an interesting alarm clock. It has the great feature to auto wake up PC from hibernate mode. This makes it really handy as you don’t need to leave PC running. Both PC and you will wake up when alarm starts.
