1st Impressions

In the last several months, I have purchased about a dozen apps looking for “that one perfect app” that would do everything I wanted when it came to ambient noises and the perfect alarm clock.

It has reached the point where I still have 8 of these still on my iPhone and liked one of then so much that I reviewed it not once, but twice for this site.

All that changed, however, after I spent the night with Nightstand Weather Clock.

While having a weather icon (much less a forecast) wasn’t a feature that I was looking for, I found it extremely helpful when it came to predicting how much difficulty I was going to have with my extremely arthritic knees that day. If, for example, I wake up and see that it is going to be rainy that day, I know that I will need to wear my knee braces and keep my pain pills handy.

The best part about the program, however, is that it will play built in ambient noises or music from a play list for up to 24 hours.  While doing so, it will display the time, a weather icon, and either a background of your choice or one of several landscape (or even celestial) backgrounds. You can also choose to cycle through these backgrounds in many different time increments, from a few seconds to a day. (That sounds handy with photos of my new grand baby… LOL) You can also adjust what part of the portrait or landscape screen the information is portrayed in.

My only suggestion for the app is that it allow for streaming music in the background.  While an iTunes playlist adds a lot of options, it would also be cool to do things like listen to a Pandora station overnight.

Now, for the best part. As good as this $0.99 app is, the developers are set to release a newer version that is so drastically improved that it is getting a new name as well. When that happens, you can read all about it right here…