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Product Description:
Dream recorder measures your sleep states by detecting your motions all along the night, using a enhanced night vision mode for iSight cameras... It wakes you up at the best moment of your morning sleep cycle, and provides dream feed-back and voice recording capabilities. Body motions are related to the sleep phases. They occur before and after dreams and are almost absent during deep sleep phases. You are awaken for very short instants during the night, without even noticing. Dream recorder uses this motion profile to reconstruct the sleep cycles.
What's new in this version:
- Optimizes the memory usage under Leopard.
- The application is now much lighter in size.
- Small reports - shorter than one hour - can now be purged in a single command. They are moved to the trash, but can be recovered.
- The user may now choose how many dream feedback he allows during the night. This was before limite to a single feedback per night.
- Smooth screen transition effects have been removed as they were too slow for some processor versions.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- QuickTime 7
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: |  (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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Dream Recorder discontinued - Version: 2.1.e, 6/11/2009 11:28AM PST
mactester.com
This last release was Feb. '08 and, according to the developer's website, the app has been discontinued. Sorry to hear; seems like it has great potential; wondering about how it might be resurrected.
Versiontracker is so annoying - Version: 2.1.e, 3/22/2008 04:06PM PST
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aprillovesmacs--2008
Versiontracker is so annoying. There is no obvious way to delete accidental double entries. When I clicked the submission button for the review below I got an error, so I refreshed the page and clicked again. Now there are two entries and no obvious way to get rid of one of them.
First of all, it works with Tiger. - Version: 2.1.e, 3/22/2008 03:32PM PST
aprillovesmacs--2008
One of the only times one NEVER sees oneself, is when asleep. Dream Recorder gives you a view of yourself you don't know about. It's an enlightening exercise seeing and hearing nocturnal activity on a time lapse video. Equally interesting are the statistics generated from the exercise. After using it half a dozen times I felt I had a more accurate sense of my sleep patterns than I'd ever had. It was gratifying to see I didn't snore as much as my previous partner complained.
There's certainly a lot of work gone into the application. One annoyance is developers trying to make clean UI's by omitting labelling. Unlabelling is a fashion statement not a practical technique. It's annoying to have to figure out the icons or move the mouse to see what the icon does.
A couple of times DR crashed and the screen went black and I thought it was a kernel panic needing a forced shutdown. It turned out that it doesn't require a restart only the backlight turned back on using the F keys - something I learned only after I read the manual.
On the whole the app worked as advertised, there were no real surprises. The demo period is satisfactory and although you need an online activation the app is licensed for three computers.
There's certainly a lot of work gone into the application. One annoyance is developers trying to make clean UI's by omitting labelling. Unlabelling is a fashion statement not a practical technique. It's annoying to have to figure out the icons or move the mouse to see what the icon does.
A couple of times DR crashed and the screen went black and I thought it was a kernel panic needing a forced shutdown. It turned out that it doesn't require a restart only the backlight turned back on using the F keys - something I learned only after I read the manual.
On the whole the app worked as advertised, there were no real surprises. The demo period is satisfactory and although you need an online activation the app is licensed for three computers.
