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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
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
What's New
Version 4.3:
- Added option to start playlist in iTunes, so you can use AirPlay devices
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- iTunes 4.7 or later
Aurora User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:67,601 |
| Version Downloads:2,395 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:27 Oct 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $14.95 |
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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.
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.
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Jeff Nailen reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
What struck me the most about Aurora, and the reason I bought it and use it, is that it is dedicated to reliability and stability which is exactly what is needed in an alarm clock when you depend on it to wake you up pleasantly every morning. Well worth the price. Don't be fooled by other options with zillions of hard to use features or really low prices and lack of reliability. Aurora is the one to trust.
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jhismith reviewed on 14 Mar 2011
P.S. Running Snow Leopard (up-to-date) as well as most up-to-date versions of EyeTV and Aurora. 'Alway open Live TV window at Startup' checked in EyeTV preferences.
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Tischer.s reviewed on 05 Feb 2011
The app is simply stunning, nice simple interface, starts the mac to the right time, works smoothly and looks very nice!
In my opinion it is much better then awaken the opponents app!
Thanks for the nice developing :)
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wilo reviewed on 05 Feb 2011
Staff of Metakine is very kind and always ready to resolve troubles.
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jcat reviewed on 13 Aug 2008
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Britonius reviewed on 27 Feb 2008
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Gaoshan reviewed on 16 Feb 2008
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You can't get a better deal. It still beats Awaken, Alarm Clock and all others. The right balance between ease-of-use and features.
Does Aurora work well when the LCD lid is closed? (MacBook)
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Problems I've had with Aurora:
Computer started up, iTunes started up, plays wrong playlist
Computer started up, iTunes hung, Aurora's built-in player started and started playing, but no sound came out of my speakers (yes, sound was turned on)
Computer started up, iTunes started up, doesn't start playing
I always have to set my clock next to Aurora, so that if it doesn't work I wont miss school...
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For example: I have a 9:00AM day for school on Mondays, but Tuesdays-Fridays I have a regular 8:00AM day.
It would be great if this feature was implemented. I love it otherwise.
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Is the download corrupt?
I'm using a Intel iMac with 10.4.6.
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I read the previous comment, and can see that others have had problems with aurora as well. From the suggestion, I also tried alarm clock 2 and it worked flawlessly. (and it's free) Goodbye aurora.
I'm sorry for the trouble Aurora caused you. Since version 1.4 Aurora should make sure your Mac will wake up before continuing to play music after snoozing. However, as setting a wake up time requires admin privileges, this won't work if you haven't authorized Aurora's helper tool. Since you say it woke you up correctly the first time, I presume you did authorize... Could you please check if this problem is reproducible?
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