A kitchen timer for your Mac

Fob is a helpful, free program only available for Mac, being part of the category Productivity software with subcategory Clocks Alarms & Reminders.

More about Fob

The software version is 1.0.4 and was updated on 6/12/2007. It’s available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and prior versions, and you can get it only in English.

About the download, Fob is a not that heavy software that doesn’t take up as much storage than the average program in the category Productivity software.

Since the software was added to our catalog in 2007, it has managed to reach 1,919 downloads, and last week it achieved 0 downloads.

Fob is a free dock-based kitchen timer for Mac OS X by Leaky Puppy Software. It allows a user to specify possibly multiple timers to count down for a specified interval. When an alarm runs out of time, Fob will make itself conspicuous. (Fob is not an alarm clock or stopwatch, i.e., it will not count to a particular time, nor count up.)

The presence of presets is Fob’s main gimmick for decreasing the effort required to start an alarm. To draw an analogy to web browsers, they are a kind of time bookmark for commonly used alarms. For example, I may define a six minute preset to let tea steep. Thence, I need only choose “Tea” from my preset list, and I never need deal with a neglected lukewarm cup in my microwave again. Starting a preset alarm requires only one mouse click rather than many clicks and typing.