Direct download: www.tuat.ac.jp/CenterStaff/Sakura/software/tuatimer/TUATimer-Release1-1.dmg

Pros: It’s free. You can set up to five timers at once. Has three different chime sounds if you want to distinguish them. And best of all, it’s in Japanese!!

Is there an alternative in English? Went to the URL above and no longer there. Msg denies me access to the server.

DRETEC t-186wt
anyone find a seller in the USA?

SEIKO TIMEKEEPER VIB SSBJ023
anyone find a seller in the USA?

THank you,

Tal
THank you,

Tal M in Atlanta.

It’s a Mac OS X app called 発表タイマー（はっぴょうタイマー）.
Free.
Direct download: www.tuat.ac.jp/CenterStaff/Sakura/software/tuatimer/TUATimer-Release1-1.dmg

Pros: It’s free. You can set up to five timers at once. Has three different chime sounds if you want to distinguish them. And best of all, it’s in Japanese!!

Cons:
Only for Mac, so if you don’t have one, you’re out of luck…there was a reference to Windows users in the app description but in all honesty I didn’t quite understand 😉 Well, I understood, but I couldn’t be bothered into finding the “さわださん作（VB版）” that they ask ご利用ください”.

Also, it’s slightly strange in the development… i.e., Developer-san didn’t bother to change the title of the window from “Window” and in the part of the menu bar stating the app name, it still says “NewApplication,” all all the menu bar items are in English, although this isn’t too big of a deal since you really do NOT need the menu bar, at all. Maybe to quit, but you can always use Cmmd-Q for that.

Notes: When you set five timers, just keep in mind that they all start at the same time. Also, I don’t think I quite grasped the intent of the app entirely, so after the first two timers the displays start counting up, but no problem because the other timers will sound anyway.

Enjoy! 😀

Fer anyone with a Japanese DSi and who’s like me and carries it around with them wherever they go, there’s an application suite of sorts (kind of a stretch to call it that, haha) on the DSiWare shop called できすぎチンクルパック (for 500 points, if I recall correctly) and it’s got a timer on it. It’s very simplistic, but you can set times up to 99:59, and it’s fairly quick and easy to reset (not as quick as Online Stopwatch, mind you, but quick enough to be convenient when you don’t have access to the internet).

*Pro: Free, can have multiple open at once, nice loud sound.
*Cons: Must connect to the internet one time to work.

# IPhone (standard clock)

* Pros: Can set different ring tones or create own and use your own (i.e., STOP STUDYING JAPANESE! “wink”), multiple alarms, 3 different types of alarm available, easy to set up.
* Cons: As Khatz said, it gets to be a hassle after awhile.

Sidenote:
My personal experience so far with time boxing is that it works well. The key for me is I need to obey my timeboxes as I can easily get caught up in a 1 hour SRS session if I don’t (ignoring other important things or just not ‘doing’ other things in Japanese, which is super important as well – people learn better through variety). I also find that if I ‘obey’ my timer my recall is vastly better as a pay off.

I have two intervals there:
2 minutes and also the signal when last 30 seconds are started

I use it for reading the book to prepare to an exam. I interval – 1 page of A4 format.
So I am not getting bored and too slow.

Also I have an estimated number of intervals (rounds 😉 ) for a chapter.
And I try to beat this estimate every time.

itunes.apple.com/us/app/hiit-timer-intervals/id309423464?mt=8
though if not ideal, but it cost me only 2 USD

www.amazon.com/Norpro-Stainless-Steel-Timer-Long/dp/B00004UE6Z