UPDATE: If you are using Unsanity’s Application Enhancer (APE) please add Awaken to the APE exclude list in the APE System Preferences panel. The only crash reports I have are from users using APE.

Wow - a week goes by so fast. Sunday nights are turning into Awaken Beta nights. So what’s new since last Sunday’s Beta (4)? We have bug fixes to address the bug reports that have come in, and we also added in 2 features that were requested last week.

Several have mentioned that the highest time option available for the sleep timer was too short (1 hour). We updated it to have an hour and minute option.

Also related to the sleep timer was a request that asked for a “basic sleep timer” (just put the Mac to sleep in X hours/minutes - no iTunes music playback). I thought this was a great idea which can have all kinds of uses. For example - maybe you want to fall asleep to a DVD. Simply set the sleep timer for the length of the movie and you’re set.

Here is a video of both of these new features in action:

Here is a listing of what’s new in Beta 5:

• Sleep Timer now has hour/minute time options.
• Sleep Timer can now be used to sleep the Mac without iTunes playback.
• Added 1 minute as an option to the “Stop Alarm After # Minutes” preference.
• Bug fixed where Awaken would crash when used with Remote Buddy.
• Bug fixed with Egg Timer where seconds would skip.
• Bug fixed with Egg Timer where countdown could continue after 0.
• Bug fixed where song rating stars would be stretched on wide-screens.
• Crash reporter window updated with more information.

To download Awaken 3.1 Beta 5 - Click here.

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