Get the Time without Opening You Eyes

I wrote about woke up by N95 playing radio using a N95 software. But that’s passive way of getting up. What if you just want to know the time without opening up your eyes? Well, it’s because you want to go back to sweet sleep if it’s not the right time yet. Here is the most simple way to do it, just grab your N95, push a button, the time will read to you by a voice. Nice, isn’t it? To do that you need just installed software developed by Andreas Jakl, called HourPower.

HourPower uses the built-in text to speech-engine of S60 3rd Edition phones. English, German and French are currently supported. If your phone is running a different language, you might not get the optimal experience: your phone will try to speak the default English words, but use your local dialect. In that case, you’re welcome to translate the words (and - if necessary - extend the source code to make sure that all possible counting-irregularities in your language are properly handled) and send it to us: HourPower is open source and licensed under the GPL!

You can download it from here.