{"id":58739,"date":"2022-08-19T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=c92d4699f3d55f0757d66aea794b74bc"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:54:10","slug":"google-brought-back-the-timer-and-its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58739","title":{"rendered":"Google brought back the timer, and it\u2019s about time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23313010\/google-timer-stopwatch-search-back\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oh good, that timer is nicer than most of the ugly-ad-farm-with-timer alternatives.  \nI'd love a similar timer with simple display built as a nice little Qt program, but somehow there isn't one, and I don't have the energy to fix that.<\/div><figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/XQl80l0D9TDQNyREkyNUX7IUjUY=\/131x0:1577x964\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/71261822\/Screen_Shot_2022_08_19_at_8.12.50_AM.0.png\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption>The timer and stopwatch have returned | Screenshot by Jay Peters \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Google&rsquo;s handy timer and stopwatch that you can use right from Search have returned. The tools have been unavailable for weeks, but Google public search liaison Danny Sullivan announced that the timer was back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysullivan\/status\/1560010093294489602\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a tweet on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To use the timer, just type &ldquo;set a timer for [however long you need],&rdquo; and the top result will be a timer that automatically starts to count down. If you want to edit the timer, click on the numbers counting down. To use the stopwatch, Google &ldquo;stopwatch&rdquo; and click the &ldquo;start&rdquo; button on the box that appears. You can also tab back and forth between the timer and the stopwatch if one of them already appears in your search results. <\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome back \"Google set a timer for X minutes.\" Kudos to the team that...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23313010\/google-timer-stopwatch-search-back\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The timer and stopwatch have returned | Screenshot by Jay Peters \/ The Verge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}