This little application was born out of the desire to see how long it was going to be until my big overseas trip in September. We’ve all seen countdown timers which tell us the number of minutes until the next MAX conference or the next release of flex builder, but I wanted something bigger… something better…

I know, I know, online countdown timers are a dime a dozen. So this is certainly nothing new or ground breaking. But I think it offers an improvement over most of the ones out there. For a start, there’s no server-side code, and no needing to embed a tag in your website. This isn’t for website publishers to tell you what they are holding out for, this is for you. Dates are stored as a local shared object (flash cookie) so when you go back to the site, your times are simply there.

Secondly, it goes full screen, so you feel like a badass movie villain when you break out your laptop on the plane with your full screen red letter countdown. Until you get arrested.

Even if you don’t enjoy it, maybe your kids will have fun seeing how long it is until their birthday.

Check it out here