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I’ve been working on this application I’ve called BookKeeper which is to help those who use their mac to listen to audiobooks while going to sleep.

What it does

What this does is let you set the minutes for a countdown, which when finished will pause what iTunes is playing. There are already apps for this, but the main difference is what happens after the countdown ends.

When the countdown is finished, a five minute countdown is begun at the end of which the mac will sleep. However, if you press play on the apple remote during this time it will restart the initial countdown.

Why is useful? Well, if you’re trying to get to sleep, the last thing you want to do is have to wake up your mac and restart whatever program was counting down to sleep mode.

How to use it

Simply set the number of minutes you want it to run in the main window.

The apple remote can do the following things…

• Press Menu at any time to get a status update
• Press Play while the sleep countdown is running to restart the main countdown
• Hold Play at any time to close the application

Unfortunately right now you can’t skip tracks or increase/decrease volume using the remote when using this app. Sorry

Download:
BookKeeper.app

I’ll maybe make it more user friendly sometime in the future. I mostly made it just for myself.

Wow. It IS Pro.

Its way faster than my old PC, and its like, 1/6 the size or something.

THE OS

Very fast, very compatible.
The only problem I’ve had is with my USB stick, but seeing as that cost £10 from dabs.com I’m not very surprised it doesn’t work.

Its very fast, loads up things in seconds that my old PC took minutes to do. I love the dock

THE HARDWARE

It looks awesome :O I love it. It looks sleek and professional. <3

I’ll add more to this later

Its arrived! 3 Days Early! So far its been awesome, not much to complain about. Except the @ key being where the Americans put it. Oh well.

Anyhoo, got some unboxing pics here.

I’ll be writing more about it later