wordysaidthis

Thanks so much for the Rosetta tip! As a college student, in terms of free software, Schoolhouse is in my top three, closely behind Firefox and VLC. It really is a wonderful program and I really felt quite lost without it. Can't wait for the next version!

Is this going to be updated soon? There's not been a response for a while, it doesn't work in Leopard and running it in Rosetta makes it slow, unresponsive and I often need to close it and open it again for simple changes like renaming Courses to show.

beska,

I have emailed the author a couple of times in the past few months and have not heard so much as one word from him. Real life obligations or not, this does not bode well for this project. If anyone has any suggestions for free (GPL or compatible, please, so that if the author decides to abandon the project we're not completely naffed) replacements, I would love to hear them.

Anyone have alternatives for Schoolhouse? The combination of lack of updates and rosetta is not fairing well.

I really love Schoolhouse!!
I wish I found this earlier...but I'm glad I ca use it for high school & college.

Does anyone know how to make this feature work? From the "features list" --

Enter/Ctrl-Enter to Go to Next/Previous Links (Like in Google)
Due to user requests, Saft add this OmniWeb feature to Safari. You can use Enter key instead of clicking on "next" links as in pages of search results from Google. Ctrl-enter for "previous" link. Saft does so by searching for links with these two keywords (and their variants in German, French and Japanese).

I can't seem to get this to work at all

@wordy: The feature works fine for me. Maybe you're using the Return key instead of the Enter key. The Enter key is on the bottom-right of external keyboards, and left of the arrow keys on built-in keyboards.

Don't buy this. Version 3 works just fine, google it. I use this every day and love it, but It's an alarm clock program, which is infinitely replaceable, so don't even think about paying for this. Big thumbs down to the developer for the donationware --> shareware switch.

Yes, don't pay for this, because God forbid that diligent independent Mac software developers actually get compensated for their hard work...

/sarcasm

I'll only pay for this if they fixed the issue where I have to disable screensaver password protection.

That's the only issue which keeps me from thinking this alarm clock is 100% useful.

@critux: I'm really sorry about this. If you have the password enabled and your Mac wakes up, it will go back to sleep when no password is entered. This is part of Mac OS X's security and especially that part is made to not be tampered with - in everyone's best interest. Aurora can't just enter your password, and it cannot prevent the Mac to go back to sleep - file a bug with Apple about this, as I cannot provide a solution other than automatically disabling the password if you wish.

What might help you keep your security up: Disable "Enable Alarms when Aurora isn't running" in Aurora's preferences. If that is not set, Aurora will re-enable the screen saver password on quit. That means you have to have Aurora running all night, and there will be no protection in that time, but as soon as you wake up, quit Aurora and head to work, your Mac will be safe again.

@metaquark: I tried as you suggested and Aurora keeps re-enabling it's menubar item, all by itself. Also Aurora needs the option to repeat the playlist.

@critux: Aurora always repeats the playlist, even if it doesn't explicitly say so. I figured you wouldn't want to risk not waking up because of a too short playlist.

here's a workaround for the screen-password issue

compile the following c-code (you will need xcode-tools) and call the programm "notif"

######################################
#include

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
CFMessagePortRef port = CFMessagePortCreateRemote(NULL, CFSTR);
CFMessagePortSendRequest(port, 500, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
CFRelease(port);
return 0;
}
######################################

than create an apple-script with the following code (remember to set the second part to the location you stored "notif" in)

######################################
do shell script "defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -int 1 ;~/Library/Scripts/ScreenSaver/notif"
######################################

all you have to do now is, to tell Aurora to run that script on wake-up
the scrip itself will re-enable the screensaver-password but the change will not take place until the preferences are opened or the OS notified in another way (which is done by "notif")
maybe the Aurora-guys should come up with a similar solution, that doesn't require anyone to install xCode-Tools?

by the way: this is based on something I found on the internet. Just don't remember where. So don't credit me ;)

While the workaround posted below would work, Aurora already includes this functionality. The reason it doesn't do that after waking up is that it wouldn't be able to run the next alarm if it switched screensaver password protection back on, making the whole feature useless.

If you disable 'Enable alarms when Aurora isn't running', Aurora will re-enable the password when you quit Aurora, and your Mac will be safe whenever Aurora isn't running - keep in mind you need to have it running in order for the alarm to go off then. If security is a concern, I recommend going that route, and leaving Aurora running overnight only.

I've tried a few other alarm clocks. This is my favorite. It does everything i need it to do.