Free Tea Timer. ©

• If you don`t see the applet on the left, download and install Java Virtual Mashine (click below "JRE") from Sun site. This is the only thing you have to have in ordrer to run my program on your platform. Usually there is no need to restart your computer.
• You may choose this link (OBJECT tag) or this link (APPLET tag) to open the same timer in a smaller window. Try both to see wich one works for your browser the best.
• Use this link to get information about your system to report a bug.

Other resources.

• Free Java(MIDP)Timer for Cellular (mobile,handy) Phones
• Java based Tea Timer written by Rammi.
• One more Java based Tea Timer.
• Tea Timer for Apple OS X.
• Tea Timer for emacs
• I like Twinnings "Earl Grey" and "Prince of Wales" tea blends the best.

This programm is written in Java and thus can be run on almost any platform. There are many ways to run it depending on what Java tool you have and your specific need. If you see the application window above, that means you already have everything you need to run it now.

There might be two applet windows shown. It is a quick hack to deal with the browsers Java support incompatibility.

There were two reasons to write this programm: firstly I wanted to practice in Java and secondly I hate to overbrew tea, which happens sometimes at the workplace because of my concentration on work. No, actually there was the third reason as well - nowadays it is more likely I have a computer around than a physical timer!

Here are Applet's Source Code, and Jar file.

Copyright:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Non self-obvious features:

1. If you would like to use the timer offline you might want to download the TeeTimer.jar file and one of these html files (1, 2). Save them in the same directory and use your browser to load html file as usual. Once again, check wich file works for you.
2. If you have Java SDK on your computer, this program can be run offline
   • as application: java -jar TeaTimer.jar
   • or as applet: appletviewer TeaTimerJApplet.java

• javac -classpath ./ TeaTimerJApplet.java
• jar -cvfm TeaTimerJApplet.jar ./META-INF/MANIFEST.MF./*.class
• MANIFEST.MF Manifest-Version: 1.0 Created-By: NetBeans IDE Specified-By: TeeTimer.jarContent Main-Class: TeaTimerJApple

ToDo list:

1. Fix "MS IE without Sun plug-in" problem (probably rewrite against JVM 1.1 AWT)
2. Add keyboard control functionality
3. Add Command prompt control functionality for Linuxoids
4. Compile Win32 executive
5. Rewrite to be able to run on b/w mobile Java devices.
6. Add configurability in GUI mode, by param tag in html and by command line arguments