→ Aurora 3.3.5 (3.7 MB, Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5)
With the release of Aurora 3.3.5 I fixed the last Leopard-related issue in Aurora 3 (Apple Remote support) so you should be up and running on your new cat just fine.
This is not all that has kept me busy since I returned from WWDC07 in June, of course. A lot of work has gone into Aurora 4, which will improve Aurora’s ease of use, reliability and performance. The main focus really is simplicity and usability – here’s a screenshot of the current build (click to see more):
Aurora 4 is not quite ready yet, but there will be a beta ready for you to test shortly. Aurora 4 will be Leopard-only (to take advantage of the many, many improvements in Apple’s new OS) and it will stop being freeware and come with a reasonable price tag instead. I stopped taking donations for that reason – a big thanks to everyone who donated something! You kept the project going, and as a reward for that, every one of the 176 individuals who donated will receive a free Aurora 4 license for themselves plus five licenses to give away as soon as Aurora 4 is ready. Thanks again!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Thank you for this great app!
It does a fine job of waking me, and its indeed easy to configure and use.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 am
When will Aurora 4 and Aurora 4 beta be released?
November 5th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I’m very sad to hear that Aurora will be non free. I know that it’s not easy to keep on developing good software without being payed, but I thought that Aurora was the Adium for waking so I hope that one day it would be open source, community developed and donationware.
Thank you for all the past morning.
November 7th, 2007 at 9:41 am
I’m very sad too… I were looking for a great app for weaking me up and I found only shareware… Only one is well thought and free : Aurora. I learn today it’ll become non free and I’m disappointed about that… But I understand your point of view.
Have you got an idea of the price?
Aurora 4 will be better than Awaken? It will have killer features?
Thanks!
November 8th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Well I’m not sure if making the transition from donationware a non-free application is the right step. But I understand it.
I just hope it has a reasonable price and licence.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Hey Jonas, has the iPod support been removed from this release?
I have a 5G ipod (Windows formatted) and iTunes 7.5. All my music are synchronised from my windows PC.
Should Aurora see my iPod songs? iTunes on my macbook is set to “manually manage”.
Any ideas why I can’t see the iPod playlists?
Cheers