I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Aurora 3.2.3, which includes the following new features:
- A brand-new chinese localization (thanks to Jack M. H. Lin)
- If your Mac falls asleep while you’re snoozing, it will now wake up properly and continue playing music
Also, I’m planning for a new major release, Aurora 4, so if there’s something that you’d really like to see in that release, please let me know (RadioShark users, I already heard you).
February 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
A option to be able to keep the password on during sleeptime…
It compromises my macbook pros security if i turn it off
Other than that its an awesome program!!
February 6th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
There’s one conceptual problem with that: If you set up Aurora to enable alarms while Aurora isn’t running, Aurora can’t re-enable the screen saver password protection when you quit it, as an alarm might not be able to go off then. If you disable this option (“Enable alarms when Aurora isn’t running” in the first preferences panel), Aurora will re-enable the screen saver password protection when you quit it. This means you’ll have to keep Aurora running overnight or whenever you want an alarm to go off (and your Macbook won’t be secure during that time), but once you quit Aurora and go to work, everything should be fine.
February 7th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Last.fm and iTunes Radio integration would be really awesome. That way, you can set a specific tag or artist and wake up to streaming music. And in the case of iTunes Radio, choose a specific station. (Iranian radio!)
Maybe you’d also like to start thinking along the lines of tv integration.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Iranian radio?! Well, you can wake up to any radio station by dragging it to an empty playlist and selecting that for your alarm. I can’t access the built-in radio station browser, but putting the station in a playlist should work fine for everybody.
February 8th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Ah, thanks! I had no idea that’s how it worked.
And what about the Last.fm and tv ideas?
February 8th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Oh, and Iranian radio pwns! (Dance & Pop, haven’t heard much Traditional yet)
March 25th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
First of all thank you so much for this amazing piece of software, it really solved any problem I had with the very unpractical Awaken.
One little thing you could improve in future releases though: I have Firefox as my wakeup action to get a look at news, first thing in the morning. The problem is, that as I connect through wireless and Aurora wakes up so nice and quick, I always get an network connection error within the browser b/c of firefox starting before the network connection could be established. So how about a time constraint, kind of like the fading in for musik in the “action” panel?
Greetings from Melbourne!
MCB
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:49 am
Does Aurora work well when the LCD lid of MacBook is closed?
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:40 am
No, sorry. You have to leave the lid open.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
Works fine for me, Jonas, with my MacBook Pro’s lid closed.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 am
There are different reports on this. There seem to be differences between Macbooks/Macbook Pros or even between different revisions of them. My advice would be to leave the lid open (and that’s what I tell people) or to try it out on your own machine before relying on it.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:05 am
I would like to see one other ‘Fall Asleep’ mode, just a Timer.
Which would work just like the iTunes Fall Asleep function, but will work with any application.
Thanks for this program, Im actually getting a PayPal account just to donate for this program..