Aurora for Mac
iTunes alarm clock; wakes your Mac and plays music.
$14.95
In English
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Aurora overview
Let Aurora wake you and your Mac. Wake up every morning to the sound of your favorite iTunes playlist instead of that annoying alarm clock
Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV. Other features include a Snooze Timer, a Fall Asleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state
Aurora 4 has greatly improved usability and reliability. The alarm properties are much more accessible. Alarms, playback/snooze and fall asleep modes have their dedicated panels. Aurora still builds on iTunes playlists, but doesn't use iTunes itself for playback, greatly enhancing reliability. Aurora 4 takes full advantage of Mac OS X Leopard technologies, and does not run on Mac OS X Tiger or earlier
Aurora speaks your language: it comes with English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Russian localizations
What’s new in version 5.0.3
Version 5.0.3:
- Fixed a problem with the sleep timers
- Fixed the iCloud Reminders
- Improved OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatibility
Aurora for Mac
$14.95
In English
Version 5.0.3
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Dec 25 2014
Version: 5.0.3
This product was developed by Metakine up to version 4.3, then bought by One Periodic who released version 5. As of this posting, you can still download version version 4.3 here: https://www.metakine.com/files/Aurora%20v4.3.0.zip
Jul 14 2014
Version: 5.0.3
Aurora used to be solid for me. Eventually I opted to upgrade from version 4 to 5 when the countdown timer duration seemed to slow to between 1/2 to 1/3 of actual speed whenever the alarm window that popped up was in the background (i.e., an alarm set to play music would start on time but last 25 minutes instead of 10 before finally stopping). Now version 5 and the latest OS (10.9.4) has resulted in a mismatch between when the menubar item thinks an alarm should start and when the alarms window actually attempts to start it - this happens whenever you try to edit an alarm already in place, and results in a ton of console log spam. This desync seems fixable by quitting both halves of the application (the dock/window part and the menubar part) and reopening them. I reported this bug to the developer a week ago, yet have heard no response at all to date.
Jan 4 2014
Version: 5.0.3
Tread Very Carefully
I got this in a MacUpdate Bundle & installed it on my Mountain Lion MacPro. I tried to turn it off & removed it from startup items, but it kept re-installing the startup item. After my removal attempt, via AppDelete, my MacPro began freezing every morning at startup, requiring a daily forced restart - very tiresome. As soon as I removed all remnants, including those hiding in Library/Group Containers, the daily freezes stopped. I'll find another alarm clock.
Dec 20 2013
Version: 5.0.3
I have lots of problems with Aurora, since I got Mavericks: it works once or twice a week!
Status in Menubar sometimes disappears, apparently at random, and I need to reboot my Mac to see it again in the MenuBar (other procedures useless) (in the Preferences of Aurora “Enable Alarms when Aurora isn’t running” and “Show status in the menubar” are always selected). If I don’t reboot, Aurora doesn’t start. By the way: In Mac Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Items, Aurora disappears.
Sometimes, Aurora wakes the Mac, starts, but doesn't play music.
I tried to delete Preferences and all other files and re-install Aurora but nothing changed.
Thank you for help!
Paolo
MacBook 5,1, late 2008, OX 10.9
Dec 12 2013
Version: 5.0.3
I have lots of problems with Aurora, since I got Mavericks: it works once or twice a week!
Status in Menubar sometimes disappears, apparently at random, and I need to reboot my Mac to see it again in the MenuBar (other procedures useless) (in the Preferences of Aurora “Enable Alarms when Aurora isn’t running” and “Show status in the menubar” are always selected). If I don’t reboot, Aurora doesn’t start. By the way: In Mac Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Items, Aurora disappears.
Sometimes, Aurora wakes the Mac, starts, but doesn't play music.
I tried to delete Preferences and all other files and re-install Aurora but nothing changed.
Thank you
Paolo
MacBook 5,1, late 2008, OX 10.9
