First I’d like to say THANKS to all who have been sending comments and features for Awaken 4. Our email server has been running hot and keeping our caffeine-based beverages at perfect temperature.
I wanted to let you know that we’re working on Awaken 4.1 now. It’s a little early to go into details on the features that will get locked in - more on that later. I did want to mention that we’ll be adding localization for French so that’s all très bien. All of our point releases will be associated with a new language localization being added.
If anyone has feature ideas for Awaken please send an email to us at support@embraceware.com. We’d love to hear them and pick the features that are in the most demand and benefit a wide range of people. We have a long list already but we could never have enough If you’ve written already - we have yours. We keep everything well organized here.
We’ll have lots more on Awaken 4.1 here very soon.
Awaken 4 is now available here at Embraceware.com. You may have noticed we have a new site design as well.
Some important notes on Awaken 4 for existing Awaken 3 users. Awaken 4 was a major rewrite in all areas and because of this you’ll have to re-add your alarms after updating. There was no clean solution to migrating due to the major changes. Awaken 4 requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Anyone still using Mac OS X 10.3 Panther should stay with Awaken 3. Our policy is to support the latest version of Mac OS X as well as the previous version.
Awaken 4 is a free update to all Awaken 3 users. You will be asked for your Awaken serial number after updating. If you have lost your serial number please try the serial lookup form on our support page: http://embraceware.com/support/
If your registration is not found please email us at support@embraceware.com and we’ll manually get it for you.
We’ve expanded the full screen mode. You can still have full screen mode triggered by alarms and timers, but you can also have it displayed at anytime via the button on the main window, or from the view menu or even via an Apple Remote. Here is a shot of the new button:
We’ve updated the icon to play well with Leopard in extra detail:
In the last post I mentioned that the fading between normal and fullscreen mode could not be recorded by any of the screen recording apps so I just recorded a quick video of the sleep timer (blame the shake on caffeine):
The private beta will be available soon. If you’d like to get in it on it - send an email to jerrybrace@mac.com with “Awaken 4 Beta” in the subject. Thanks!
The full screen clock and sleep timer are ready for viewing. Check them out in the following video. One thing to note on the video is that the screen recording software used could not capture the smooth fade in/out effect that I’m doing with the full screen mode - please imagine this effect when watching
Is the beta coming soon? Yes, yes it is. Initially I’d like to do a private beta release to a select few. If you would like to be one of the first to test Awaken 4 - please send an email to jerrybrace@mac.com with “Awaken 4 Beta” in the subject. When the initial beta build is ready I’ll send an email out to those selected. The initial beta will require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Tiger will be supported in the public beta shortly after.
If you’ve written already - we have yours. We keep everything well organized here.
