Schedule Alarms Or Reminders Under GNOME Shell With Remindor Shell

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor, an application that can be used to schedule alarms or reminders has been <a href="http://indicator-remindor.tumblr.com/post/37905144123/12-12">updated</a> to version 12.12, getting some new features and GNOME Shell support.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indicator Remindor can remind you of various events using notifications, a popup window (so you don't miss the reminders), it can change the AppIndicator icon, can play a sound and everything is highly configurable.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>Indicator Remindor 12.12 changes:</b><br /><ul><li>specify dates relating to Christmas, for example: "every day from today to christmas"</li><li>specify AppIndicator icon: light, dark or the original app icon</li><li>"Inserts", a new option to add various data to your notes, like the current time, etc.</li></ul><br />There's also a new <b>Remindor GNOME Shell extension that supports GNOME Shell 3.6 and 3.4:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/remindor-shell.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Indicator Remindor GNOME Shell" src="http://img.netupd8.com/remindor-shell_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indicator Remindor main UI and GNOME Shell extension (the UI colors can be changed)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The extension is currently in beta and it adds the Indicator Remindor icon on the top GNOME Shell bar, which you can use add normal or quick reminders, stop all reminder sounds or manage reminders. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since using this GNOME Shell extension, you won't be needing the AppIndicator icon to show up in the Message Tray, you can disable it</b> from the Indicator Remindor preferences: <i>Edit > Preferences > Interface</i> and set Hide Indicator to ON.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If later on you want to re-enable the Indicator and you're not using GNOME Shell (so you can't access the preferences), run "<i>indicator-remindor -p</i>" in a terminal to launch its preferences and set "Hide Indicator" to OFF.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For how to install the Indicator Remondir GNOME Shell extension, see below.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Indicator Remindor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>To add the Indicator Remindor PPA and install it in Ubuntu Quantal or Precise, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bhdouglass/indicator-remindor<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-remindor</code></pre>For other Linux distributions, you can download Indicator Remindor from <a href="https://launchpad.net/indicator-remindor/+download">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GNOME Shell extension is not available on extensions.gnome.org, but it can easily be installed - (for GNOME Shell 3.4 and 3.6 - note that I've only tested it on GS 3.6 though), use the commands below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions #just in case<br />sudo apt-get install git<br />git clone https://github.com/bhdouglass/remindor-shell.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/remindor-shell@bhdouglass.tk/</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, restart GNOME Shell and activate the Remindor Shell extension via GNOME Tweak Tool, then launch Indicator Remindor from the Activities Overview.</div><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-remindor">Launchpad</a>.

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Indicator Remindor 12.10 Released With New Features

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4ft6oJsK2YUFg9RH4t8SMYahzup66Kd_rnYa37ryUOyLnsOQYc_aQsl17ty2aeWWSIw4UuCfNIHV4tqVCuCPn1RzgZF9msbtfBI9ikjXkAjRu_IHJZ-iFHV1Ccy2VtxYPSp1m0qKVAye/s1600/indicator-remindor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4ft6oJsK2YUFg9RH4t8SMYahzup66Kd_rnYa37ryUOyLnsOQYc_aQsl17ty2aeWWSIw4UuCfNIHV4tqVCuCPn1RzgZF9msbtfBI9ikjXkAjRu_IHJZ-iFHV1Ccy2VtxYPSp1m0qKVAye/s320/indicator-remindor.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/schedule-alarms-reminders-in-ubuntu.html" title="Schedule Alarms / Reminders In Ubuntu With Indicator Remindor">Indicator Remindor</a>, an Ubuntu appindicator that can be used to schedule reminders or alarms, has been updated to version 12.10.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Indicator Remindor 12.10 comes with a new design for some UI parts like the time, date and command, along with a new option to have a <b>reminder popup dialog window</b>, which you can use to make sure you don't miss any important reminders.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlWY6J-WR_C3OZn7eblX8jY3071pOJ120SfSXAGBnfslGiIXllCiRrq3a54-Gw6_cfN2XIUgZmSBRoFlm8hLnZXDrvSVDXEBCkhqahRLcQxs47gpvnIZ4vikSZ-7XZDASMO5q6AkcCyls/s1600/indicator-remindor-reminders.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlWY6J-WR_C3OZn7eblX8jY3071pOJ120SfSXAGBnfslGiIXllCiRrq3a54-Gw6_cfN2XIUgZmSBRoFlm8hLnZXDrvSVDXEBCkhqahRLcQxs47gpvnIZ4vikSZ-7XZDASMO5q6AkcCyls/s320/indicator-remindor-reminders.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indicator Remindor can remind of the events you set using notifications, a popup dialog window, by changing the appindicator icon colour or playing a sound</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another new feature in the latest Indicator Remindor is an option to <b>change the indicator icon</b> (similar to Ubuntu Messaging Menu behaviour) colour when a notification runs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other changes include: more powerful dates (check out the application help for more info) and bug fixes, including the bug that caused the commands feature not to work properly.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Indicator Remindor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest Indicator Remindor 12.10 is available in its PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 - add the PPA and install it using the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bhdouglass/indicator-remindor<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-remindor</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Until official builds are released for Ubuntu 12.10, you can manually download the .deb available in <a href="https://launchpad.net/~bhdouglass/+archive/indicator-remindor/+build/3875353">the PPA</a>, I've tested it and it should work just fine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a class="external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-remindor">Launchpad</a>. </div>

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Schedule Alarms / Reminders In Ubuntu With Indicator Remindor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7xbaa6A6zTJtAo3eytkjMuNLAUgWJCRMzQ5zWab6tgE8GHDUfUQmtmfV63loVDzZRRredxK-Hr6cbrg8wUW5vBe3aLYfp9Eq46UdSrJPOMXaX3C4-XdyIb_Pmiz3JO_q3Ms-AT24JvHKc/s1600/indicator-remindor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7xbaa6A6zTJtAo3eytkjMuNLAUgWJCRMzQ5zWab6tgE8GHDUfUQmtmfV63loVDzZRRredxK-Hr6cbrg8wUW5vBe3aLYfp9Eq46UdSrJPOMXaX3C4-XdyIb_Pmiz3JO_q3Ms-AT24JvHKc/s320/indicator-remindor.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor is an Ubuntu appindicator that lets you easily schedule reminders or set alarms and it notifies you using notifications, a sound or you can set a custom command.  </b><b>The reminders / alarms can be set to run only once or every day, every month and so on. </b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many situations in which you'll find Indicator Remindor useful: you can use it to set reminders about important events, to get a notification when your favourite TV show is about to start or to wake you up in the morning, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Using Indicator Remindor is very simple: start the appindicator and click "Add" and you'll see a window like this:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJoirnhbzBaZSIWQ7y8jvjRsSuUGK4IIBt7ZMycEUeE3NEnR-SRtBWxtX9yevgQJhzAWUfdeILqwTYhvN9-ZG-1qE0vsR2WytcyKnsQzmIi-HjUsSMz7Osd8sd3JqdXz6B6XF53kRbvoEj/s1600/indicator-remindor_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJoirnhbzBaZSIWQ7y8jvjRsSuUGK4IIBt7ZMycEUeE3NEnR-SRtBWxtX9yevgQJhzAWUfdeILqwTYhvN9-ZG-1qE0vsR2WytcyKnsQzmIi-HjUsSMz7Osd8sd3JqdXz6B6XF53kRbvoEj/s320/indicator-remindor_2.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can set the time when the alarm / reminder should run, set a label for your new reminder, enable/disable sound (and select a sound file) or notification, an option to loop the sound, set a custom command and so on. <b>Under "date", you can set either a numeric date like "07/12/2012" or "today", "every day", "next monday", etc.</b> - you can see all the supported options by opening the Indicator Remindor help (press F1 or open it from the menu).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also set a quick alarm to run in a given number of minutes by selecting "Quick Add". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From the Remindor main interface you can select to postpone an alarm by 30 minutes, by clicking  the "Postpone" button. There's also an indicator menu entry that lets you stop the alarm sound.</div><br /><h2>Install Indicator Remindor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor is available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin only right now. To add its PPA and install it, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bhdouglass/indicator-remindor<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-remindor</code></pre><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-remindor">Launchpad</a>.

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