Tea Timer 1.4 (Mac OS X)

Copyright © 2001, 2002 Dr. Herwig Henseler

Freeware

Overview

Tea Timer is a countdown program which helps you remembering when your tea is ready. The Countdown can be displayed in the dock(!) It is really rather minimal but if you brew tea regularly you might find this program helpful.

Screenshots

Known Bugs

Don't put Tea Timer inside a folder with special characters (like e.g. german umlauts: ä, Ö, ...). This is a bug in Apple's Cocoa Java framework and I can't get around it. The application will come up with empty and nonfunctional dialog boxes. (Apple fixed this in 10.2)

The version check looks at my old iDisk location. Since Apple decided to charge for .mac I moved this page and the version info, therefore the version check will fail with error.

Version History

Credits

Tea Timer was inspired by a classic Mac OS application called "Tea-time" by Thorsten Kramp. My version is Mac OS X native and features nicer graphics but is essentially the same.

License

Tea Timer is Freeware.

Languages

Tea Timer is localized for English, German and Italian.

Requirements

Tea Timer runs on Mac OS X 10.0 or newer.

Technology

Tea Timer is written in Java and uses the Cocoa framework. In fact it's only a programming exercise.

What people are saying ...

I use Tea Timer every day. A small program that does only one thing and does it very elegantly. Also, a nice icon and an alarm that reminds without startling. --Versiontracker

*The* most essential and strategic Mac OS X application. While Adobe talks, these guys actually SHIP! ;-) --Versiontracker

A simple, elegant program. --Versiontracker

There are more full features timers, but if all you need is a simple countdown timer, Tea Timer doesdoes its job elegantly, beautifully and with a lightness that is missing from most applications --Handpicked Software for MacOSX

Disclaimer

The Software and its related documentation are provided "AS IS" and without warranty of any kind and Herwig Henseler expressly disclaims all other warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Under no circumstances shall Herwig Henseler be liable for any incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use or inablility to use the Software or related documentation, even if Herwig Henseler has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Future Versions

I consider Tea Timer complete. There will be no more updates (except bugfixes). Of course, I could add a lot more features but that will distract from the simplicity of the program and make it complicated and overloaded. As said, it is only a programming effort and I have moved to other projects (see below).

Windows?

Tea Timer is a true MacOSX application which can't be easily ported to other operating systems. Luckily, others have already written a Windows version of a Tea Timer.