Alarm Clock

Wake N Shake for iPhone -- the evil alarm clock that's guaranteed to get you out of bed each morning

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Aug 3, 2012 a 12:25 am

Wake N Shake for iPhone is the alarm clock for people like me -- those who hit snooze about 5 times before actually getting out of bed. We are so addicted to our precious snooze button, that we set our alarm early in anticipation of the fact that we'll be hitting snooze for at least a half hour. With Wake N Shake for iPhone, those days are over. This alarm clock requires you to rigorously shake your iPhone to turn it off. By the time you've shaken your iPhone enough to turn off the alarm, you'll be more than ready to get out of bed (and in need of a shower!).

Timegg for iPhone review

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012 a 6:39 pm

If you've been on the hunt for an app to replace Apple's Clock app, Timegg for iPhone is a beautiful choice. It features a very stylish, easy to use UI and allows you to set up to 8 custom alarms, 8 custom timers (with intervals), due date reminders, and interval reminders.

Night Stand for iPad review: The best clock app for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012 a 8:13 pm

If you just bought a new iPad and have searched in vain for the built-in Apple Clock app, here's some bad news -- there isn't one. Apple just doesn't think the Clock app looks good on the big screen. Luckily for us, however, App Store developers don't share that belief. In fact, the developers of Night Stand for iPad show just exactly how to do it right.

App Giveaway: wake N shake - The Merciless Alarm Clock Pro Shaker Edition for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Sep 8, 2011 a 9:32 pm

A new alarm clock as just hit the App Store: wake N shake - The Merciless Alarm Clock. This is no ordinary alarm clock, because in order to turn it off, you must shake your iPhone until the meter on the screen fills up.

I am extremely guilty of hitting snooze on my alarm and going back to sleep. I have even been known to accidentally turn off the alarm entirely then falling back to sleep (this happened this morning, actually). wake N shake is an alarm clock for people like me, because after shaking my iPhone to turn off the alarm, I should be plenty awake to jump out of bed.

I'm almost scared to download it.

Attention: Don't trust iPhone alarm clock during Daylight Savings Time changeover

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Nov 6, 2010 a 7:26 pm

The switch from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time happens tonight at 2 am. But as we learned from Australian and and European iPhone users, the iPhone's alarm clock will not recognize this change. In fact, your alarm is likely to go off an hour late.

Daylight savings brings annoying alarm clock bug. Software fix on the way.

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Oct 12, 2010 a 8:56 am

iPhone users living in southern Australia were supposed to get an extra hour of sleep with the change to daylight savings on October 3, but didn't because the alarms on their iPhones went off an hour early. Apple knows about the bug and it should be fixed in the next update.

This is a very strange glitch because the iPhone's clock correctly updated with daylight savings, but the recurring alarm clock does not recognize the new time. However, a one-time alarm works just fine.