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I am searching for a OS X Timer/Stop Watch application which provides functionality to start or stop a timed counter?
Something that looks and works just like the iOS Stopwatch and Timer function would be perfect.
It doesn't have to look exactly the same as the iOS app and should have keyboard shortcuts rather than need touch screen / mouse interaction.
iTunes Remote Control is probably the easiest, but is no longer updated, and I've heard reports of some issues with it under Snow Leopard. YMMV.
Edit: One other major option would be to control iTunes from your browser. A variety of commercial and free solutions exist to do this. This is one of the more popular DIY guides on the subject. Playerpal and PatioTunes are two examples of commercial variants on the idea. N.B., I've used neither, and can't speak to the quality of either app. Feel free to google around for more options on this front.
In the end, I found Timecop that does almost everything I wanted: simple project tracking with a variety of configurable reports spanning days, weeks, or months.
Honourable mentions go to Tictoc which does a very similar job to Timecop, and Timing (which also has a free, Lite version). Timing is different in that its a "traditional" application tracker, however, you can create custom projects and drag applications into them, right down to the document level. So you can attribute different documents in a single app to different projects, which is great if you're working on two different projects in Xcode, for example.
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I would say the Mac App Store has some awesome options - some free, the rest extremely reasonably priced.
Have a look at:
Depending on how much timing and alarming you need, there are even amazing programmable timers like FlexTime