Using Google as a timer

googletimer

We know that Google has all kinds of clever search commands (as well as a rich set of developer features, for example Google Charts), but here’s another useful one: you can set a countdown by typing “set timer X min” into Google, with an alarm when it expires.

(if a countdown doesn’t do it for you, then you can also use the command “set timer X time“)

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