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I've been feeling handicapped when I cook, and especially when I bake. When I used to bake professionally, we used the oven timers to know when to check on our cookies. It wasn't long before my internal timer was telling me 30 seconds before the oven timer went off, that I needed to check on the cookies. But that didn't help with cakes, pies, breads, pastries, you get the idea. One of our bakeries had multiple digital timers, to help out with production.

At home, my oven doesn't have a timer. My microwave does, but that's also the only working clock in the kitchen, and even on that floor of that house. And if I need to nuke something while something else is in the oven, well that's a problem. And I occasionally have enough going that two ore more timers would really come in handy.

When I got my G1, one of the first types of apps that I looked for was a kitchen timer. I found one (and only one) that didn't complete suck; it only half sucked. It could time for more than 90 minutes, immediately putting it ahead of all the other timers (my microwave timer only goes to 99 minutes, not nearly long enough for proofing bread dough). This particular timer had a pretty graphic of a kitchen timer, and rather than typing in numbers, you had to use the touch screen to rotate it. It was clunky, and difficult to get the exact time that I wanted. And when the timer went off... well, I don't know what the crappy music was that started playing, but I hated it and you couldn't change it.

That app was removed from my phone this very morning, when I came across a timer to end all timers. It's not complex, it's not pretty, but it does the one thing that it needs to do: it works. I can set as many timers as I want, I can type in exactly the time I want (down to the second), and I can change the alarm sound.

This app isn't available on the Android Market. You just need to head over to synic's site and download it. Kudos to synic for putting together such an awesome app. This is one of the few that I will be adding to my desktop on my phone.