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Apr

[New App] Spin Alarm Clock Begins Every Day On The Wrong Side Of The Bed

Posted by Bertel King, Jr. in App Reviews, Applications, News

Last Updated: May 5th, 2013

For many people, a piercing alarm is the worst way imaginable to wake up in the morning. One moment you're in deep sleep, moments away from taking a battle axe to Bowser and rescuing Princess Peach in a lime green Lamborghini, the next you're covering your ears as a neglected smartphone wails from the side table nearby. It's bad, but it could be worse. Much worse. Spin Alarm Clock won't settle for mere acknowledgment to cease its unpleasant alarm, it demands you to spin around several times before accepting that you are, in fact, awake.

What it Does

Spin Alarm Clock doesn't look all that different from Android's default alarm clock application.

Sep

[New App] Sleep Time Alarm Clock Sees You When You're Sleeping, Knows When You Should Wake Up

Posted by Jeremiah Rice in Applications, News

Alarm clocks are thick on the ground on the Google Play Store, which is surprising in itself, since Android has a perfectly capable alarm clock built in. There are popular alternatives like DoubleTwist's slick-looking Alarm Clock, and various options for softly lulling you to sleep with music. Now there's a new option that's become quite popular on iOS (though we won't hold it against them), which uses your smartphone or tablet's sensors to wake you up at the right time. Sleep Time Alarm Clock is a free download, and it's compatible with just about everything out there.

Sleep Time Alarm Clock uses cycles in your natural circadian rhythm to wake you up when you're most likely to feel refreshed, instead of set moment when you may be in your deepest sleep.

Aug

DoubleTwist Alarm Clock Updated To v1.3, Brings Nap Alarm, Quiet Mode, New Dim State, And More

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

What's probably the most beautiful alarm clock application for Android - doubleTwist Alarm Clock - received a fairly major update today that brings quite a bit of functionality to the app.

Some of the most notable new features are the addition of a Nap alarm, which allows the user to quickly set an alarm for anywhere between one and sixty minutes; the option for Quiet Mode, which automatically disables ringers and vibrations for eight hours prior to an alarm going off (brilliant!); and the increasingly popular option for voice actions, so you can tell your alarm when to go off.

Aside from those biggies, the DT team also added a third dim state (toggle-thru), as well as the option to have the alarm play a random song.

Mar

[Hands-On] doubleTwist Alarm Clock Is Probably The Best-Looking Way To Get Woken Up Way Too Early

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

There's definitely no shortage of ways to turn your $300 smartphone into a $20 alarm clock. What there is a shortage of, however, are elegant solutions to this age old quandary. Enter doubleTwist Alarm Clock, a new way to wake up from the guys who brought us the doubleTwist Player.

As soon as you fire up dT Alarm Clock, one thing is apparent: this thing is pretty. It's dark and classy looking, and the interface is intuitive. There are so many alarm clock apps out there that over-complicate the hell out of waking up -- thankfully, this isn't one of them.