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Today is the first day of the 19 day Fast in the Baha’i calendar. Baha’is abstain from food and drink when the sun is up so it is important that I wake up earlier than usual to have a good meal. Waking up is rarely easy since I’m such a happy sleeper so I need all of the help I can get. Enter: a free web based telephone calling service called Wakerupper to help me stop slumbering.

Wired magazine wrote about Wakerupper back in November and I immediately tried it but it was not fully available then except for beta testers. Without an account all you can do is schedule a single call. My single reminder calls worked well but the real beauty of a service to call a phone number is to schedule multiple calls on a schedule.

Wakerupper is basically a service that calls a telephone exactly when you want with the message of your choosing. According to the company:

“Wakerupper is an experimental service that aims to make telephone alerting as easy and inexpensive as possible. In one easy step, on one simple web page, Wakerupper enables users in the United States and Canada to schedule telephone reminder calls.”

Today I got an email inviting me to be a beta tester for the servce (yay, right on time!) and it is working great. Details on how it works are below.

So far I have used this to wake up on a typical morning and wake up for an early morning trip. Since I know I can’t reliably remember to do something without adding it to my schedule, one time I scheduled for Wakerupper to call Amanda when she needed a reminder call from me. The call to her not only rings her phone but also includes a recorded voice message or a text-to-speech message. Here is a sample entry for a new call:

Besides entering your various telephone numbers there is nothing else to it. It’s easy, simple and free. Give it a spin yourself at wakerupper.com. Try calling yourself to remind yourself to have a great weekend and get out and enjoy the late winter weather.  Wait, you don’t need a reminder for that.  Just go!

[Wakerupper via Wired]