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

Posted by 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.

12
Mar
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doubleTwist Gets Into The Streaming Radio Game, Adds 'Magic Radio' To Its Player

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Streaming internet radio is far from a new concept, but if you're a doubleTwist user who longs to journey outside the realm of your personal collection, it has previously required the use of another service, like Pandora or Spotify. If, like me, it's your druthers to unify everything, today brings about some good news: doubleTwist now has its own built-in streaming radio.

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Dubbed Magic Radio, the service takes your existing collection and essentially builds off of it to give you more music that you love. Much like with competing services, you can create stations based on specific tracks or genres of music, but dT takes discovery a step further with addition of "intelligent stations" that can find music based on keyword searches, like "Brazilian music" or "Woodstock." Neat stuff.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

01
Dec
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Been Lusting After Wireless Syncing? Here It Is - It's Called Airsync [Hands-On]

Posted by in Applications, Apps/Games, News
Last Updated: January 11th, 2011

If you're like me, you've been longing for cable-free syncing ever since you got your Android phone. Well, the wait has now ended, thanks to doubleTwist, otherwise known as the iTunes of Android devices.

Their latest update includes a handy new feature called AirSync, which does exactly what its name implies: it syncs your music, videos, and photos over the air. The desktop client and the regular Android app (both of which you'll need for AirSync to work) are still 100% free, but the AirSync feature itself will cost you $4.99 (on sale for $0.99 until 10,000 people download it).

03
Jun
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doubleTwist Releases Android Media Player App

Posted by in App Reviews, Applications, News, Reviews
Last Updated: July 24th, 2011

Jon Lech Johansen from doubleTwist wrote to us today to let us know that they have launched a free app in the Market to pair with their popular desktop sync software for Mac and PC:

Today we launched our Android Player for music, podcasts and videos and it’s available in the Android Market as a free download. Google has built Android into a powerful, open platform; however users have been unsatisfied by the default media software built into Android and are not fully utilizing the media capabilities of their phones.

Jon goes on to list the features of the new Android app such as music and video playback in the same app with a simple interface, playback of iTunes-created playlists, support for audio and video podcasts, and support for ratings and play counts.