Where can I find a program that beeps exactly once a minute?

Factual Questions
1

Recently I’ve taken to playing Eve Online. Within the game, one of the skills is mining. Exactly once every minute I have to empty my cargohold of everything I have mined or else my character stops mining. This is a problem when I am reading the Dope and don’t realize how much time has transpired.
Is there a computer program that I can set to beep (or make some sort of non-annoying noise) exactly once a minute, and then continue to beep once each minute until I turn it off? All I have been able to find are alarm-clock type programs, which aren’t what I need. Thanks!

2

Hack: Make an HTML file with a refresh tag set to 60 seconds and some inline audio. Open it in a brower, and voila.
ETA: Actually, does IE make that annoying click on auto-refresh? If so, no inline audio needed!

3

Forget computer, get a kitchen timer. I have a whole bevy of 'em that I used when playing Everquest, with similar time issues (have to re-mez every 44 seconds, have to re-do speed every 7 minutes, etc.). Make sure to get the ones that are programmable, so you hit just a button or two to reset it every 60 seconds.

4

You could try weird metronome and set it for 1 beat per minute.

5

My microwave beeps every 60 seconds after something’s done, if I don’t open the door.

6

Record an audio file of 59 seconds dead air and one second of you saying “time to empty the cargo” and put it on repeat.

7

This works, by the way.

8

That sounds excruciating. Where’s the fun in that?

9

How about finding an app that sends a suitable keystroke to the client every 60 seconds?

Si

10

if you are using a Mac or other Unix based computer, create a text file in /usr/lib/cron/tabs containing this:



SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILTO=/dev/null

0-59 * * * *       beep
11

Better yet, just open a terminal window and type



while( true ); do echo -e '\0007'; sleep 60; done;
12

Better yet, just open a terminal window and copy and paste the above!

13

That would be called “botting” and, as far as I know, is against the rules of the game.

14

Switch to Progress Quest .

15

Well, it forces me to work on homework instead of spending all my time playing, while at the same time increasing my in-game wealth, which is necessary to buy fun things.
This Weird Metronome dealie will work great. Thanks!