Using my Mac as alarm clock

Hi- I notice in the Sys Prefs under Energy saver you can get the Mac to Startup (or Shutdown) at specific times.
The problem is you can only set Weekends, Weekdays, Every Day or ONE day in the week. I work Saturdays but not Mondays, so I need to set the Mac to wake at 6:00 on Tues-Sat inc, and not on Sun/Mon.
Can the Mac do this on it's own (Automator?), or will I need a bit of shareware?
Thanks muchly!

There's nothing more reliable than a windup alarm clock that you set every night... What if there's a power outage?
Here's another one that looks pretty good (never used it myself) and it's donationware.
http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmclock/index.html
If you leave your Mac ON all the time (using only display sleep) like I do, you can create a repeating event in iCal that sounds an alarm. I think it can also run a script, which can be used to launch iTunes and play a specific playlist. But I don't think iCal will wake up your Mac if it is sleeping.

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A "musical alarm clock"...
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Nightfuse wrote:
I find myself using alarm clock all the time and not the timer under the bottom quick control pane. Why hasn't Apple changed that?
Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback
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Good day.
I use my Ipod as Alarm Clock - it's pretty good to wake up while listening to the favourite music. I made it to start playing playlist without beeping.
I don't know why, but sometimes (after watching video, listening to the music before I go to bed) my alarm clock doesn't work correctly: when it's time to wake up, it just shows a message *wake up* as usually, but without playing music, so I'm being late for some times already...
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P.S.: Sorry, if my english isn't very good.

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wow. that's a really interesting observation, CTU agent.
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Turning your Mac into a clock radio.
1. In iTunes create a playlist that contains just the radio station you want to wake up to.
2. Export the playlist (as .m3u works well). Get Info on your playlist file and look at the Open With entry to make sure it points to iTunes, VLC or some other app that will stream your station.
3. In iCal create an event entry at the time you want to wake up.
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