You might throw your alarm clock, but you won’t throw your phone…

(Of course you won’t throw your phone. You spent hundreds of dollars for it, and it also doubles as something you can communicate with, when you’re not using it as an alarm clock, right? :D)

Since I don’t have an alarm clock, save for my phone, I needed something that would be effective when I need a one-time, or a recurring alarm, and it had to be something to make me wake up enough.

I found out about a service called Snoozester, which basically does this for me.

I can be at work, and find out that I need to be at an appointment on a certain day. This is easily handled by simply logging in to Snoozester (since I’m online at work all day), setting up a reminder call with the time and date, and a short message that is read back to me when I do receive the call from the service.
This is all easily achieved, too, since the interface is very light, and very to the point, while making sense.

I can be anywhere, as long as I have my phone, and get this alert, because my phone will start ringing and vibrating, until I answer it.

I’ll get this casual notice from Snoozester, which will read back to me what I left as the short message. This helps out, since an alarm clock is generally tethered to home, and digging through 5 menus just to set up one alarm is not all that fun.

Now, there is a price for this kind of progress, but the price is staggeringly inexpensive.
If you’re like me, and just want a wake up call for each work day, you can easily get by on buying 30 call credits for $5.
If you’re a traveler, and need something a little more elaborate, such as support for a few phone numbers, and more call credits per month, then there are very, very inexpensive monthly plans starting at about $4.