News Archive

Below are links to DssW's news and updates archive. For the latest DssW news, see Energy Aware.

2018-10-16 – AppleScript, Automator, and macOS 10.14 aka Mojave
2018-06-07 – Power Manager 4.6.5 Released
2018-05-16 – How to Stop Your Mac Sleeping While Time Machine is Running
2018-02-22 – Cloning and Deploying a Power Manager Schedule
2018-02-06 – Power Manager 4.6.4 Released
2017-11-02 – Power Manager 4.6.3 Released
2017-10-13 – Power Manager 4.6.2 Released
2017-07-03 – DssW is Twenty Years Old
2017-06-12 – How to Mount a Mac Drive to a Schedule
2017-04-10 – Power Manager 4.6.1 Released
2017-03-02 – How to View Power Manager's Unified Log Entries
2017-02-21 – Power Manager 4.6.0 Released
2016-12-12 – How to Automatically and Quietly Shut Down a Mac
2016-10-10 – How to Run a Script Before an Inactivity Triggered Log Out
2016-08-30 – Power Manager 4.5.4 Released
2016-08-03 – How to Show an Inactivity Warning
2016-07-21 – How to Trigger an Event with the Power Manager Application
2016-07-05 – How to Add On-Demand Behaviour to an Event
2016-06-20 – Signed for macOS 10.12 Sierra
2016-06-14 – Preparing for macOS 10.12 Sierra
2016-05-17 – Power Manager 4.5.3 Released
2016-05-09 – Power Manager 4.5.2 Released
2016-04-08 – Towards a Smaller Install Footprint
2016-03-21 – Activity Audit 1.1.6 Released
2016-03-03 – Apple World Today Recommends Power Manager
2016-02-17 – Power Manager 4.5.1 Released
2015-12-11 – Power Manager Recipe Updates
2015-12-03 – How to Launch an Application Shortly After Log In
2015-11-09 – Battery Report 1.2 in the Mac App Store
2015-11-02 – Battery Report 1.2 Released
2015-10-27 – Fleeting Sleep Trigger
2015-10-26 – Power Manager 4.5.0 Released
2015-10-17 – All Domains Secured
2015-09-10 – Preparing for OS X 10.11 El Capitan
2015-08-28 – Better Sleep for Your Mac Media Server
2015-07-30 – Sleep Centre, Security, and Search
2015-07-06 – Battery Guardian v1.1 Released
2015-07-03 – Eighteen Years
2015-06-08 – Triggering On-Demand Events for Non-Administrators
2015-05-12 – Power Manager 4.4.1 Released
2015-05-12 – How to Adjust Power Manager's Notification Center Alerts
2015-05-06 – How to Wait for Log Out
2015-04-14 – Power Manager 4.4.0 Released
2015-04-01 – How to Update Power Manager
2015-03-12 – Power Manager 4.3.4 Released
2015-03-10 – How to Backup Power Manager
2015-03-02 – Calculating Sunrise and Sunset
2015-02-10 – Deploying Packages via Sparkle
2015-02-05 – How to Power On Your Mac at Sunrise
2015-01-28 – Mac360 Reviews Power Manager
2015-01-26 – Power Manager 4.3.3 Released
2015-01-21 – Inactivity and Idle Time on OS X
2014-12-08 – Power Manager Professional 4.3.3 Released
2014-11-29 – How to Install Homebrew on OS X
2014-11-11 – How to Change Your Wireless MAC Address
2014-11-10 – Fragile Nature of Automator and Watch Me Do
2014-10-25 – How to Set Up Reliable Presentations
2014-10-24 – PowerPoint, AppleScript, and Yosemite
2014-10-09 – How to Run a Script When Your Mac Powers On
2014-09-18 – Creating a Foundation for Your Events
2014-08-28 – Activity Audit and Battery Report Updates for Mac App Store
2014-08-27 – Power Manager 4.3.2 Released
2014-08-26 – Fix for Auto-Play in Keynote 6.2.2
2014-08-22 – Activity Audit 1.1.5 Released
2014-08-21 – Sleep Monitor 3.0.2 Released
2014-08-20 – Power Manager 4.3.1 Released
2014-08-18 – Power Manager 4.3.0 Released
2014-08-15 – Activity Audit 1.1.4 Released
2014-08-14 – Battery Report 1.1.3 Released
2014-08-11 – Preparing for OS X 10.10 Yosemite
2014-07-11 – Reasons to Celebrate
2014-06-16 – How to Automate Disk Permission Repairs
2014-06-10 – How to Install Power Manager Over the Network
2014-05-26 – Power Manager 4.2.1 Released
2014-05-21 – Mac360 Recommends Power Manager for Power Users
2014-05-20 – Power Manager 4.2.0 Released
2014-05-12 – MacCast recommends Power Manager
2014-05-05 – Power Manager 4.2 Preview Update
2014-04-16 – Previewing Power Manager 4.2
2014-04-10 – Safe From Heartbleed
2014-03-18 – How to Run a Shell Script After Inactivity
2014-02-24 – Battery Guardian v1.0.1 Released
2014-02-10 – How to Shut Down Before the Battery Fails
2014-01-21 – DssW Available via homebrew cask
2014-01-07 – Serving svn with httpd on OS X 10.9
2013-12-16 – How to Run an Automator Workflow After Inactivity
2013-12-05 – Power Manager Recommended by Bohemian Boomer
2013-12-02 – Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.1.8 Released
2013-11-25 – Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.1.7 Released
2013-11-13 – How to Schedule a PowerPoint Presentation to Automatically Start
2013-11-05 – Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.1.6 Released
2013-10-26 – Authorization Rights and Mavericks
2013-10-26 – Discovering Mavericks
2013-10-18 – How to Schedule an Automator Workflow
2013-10-11 – Preparing for Mavericks
2013-10-07 – How to Automate the Playing of a Movie
2013-09-20 – Avoiding Password Prompts with ssh and rsync
2013-09-13 – Power Manager recommended by Technofob.pl
2013-09-08 – Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.1.5 Released
2013-09-02 – How to Run a Script from a Menu Item
2013-07-19 – Sixteen Years
2013-07-08 – How to Shut Down When UPS Power Drops
2013-06-26 – Battery Guardian Recommended by GreenIT
2013-06-23 – Scripting Batteries and UPS on Mac OS X
2013-06-18 – Battery Guardian Recommended by Technology Personalized
2013-06-14 – Announcing Power Manager and Power Manager Pro v4.1.4
2013-05-27 – authbuddy - Introducing our new authorization rights tool for Mac OS X
2013-04-30 – How to Schedule an External Shell Script
2013-03-28 – How to Schedule a Hard Drive to Unmount or Eject
2013-03-13 – How to Make Events Conditional on Running Applications
2013-02-18 – How to Schedule a launchd Job
2013-02-13 – How to Start Up Your Mac Using AppleScript
2013-01-27 – Triggering an Event from the Command Line
2013-01-11 – How to Set Up Power Manager with a Web Server
2013-01-03 – Artwork of Battery Guardian
2012-12-03 – Battery Guardian - Extend Your Mac Battery Life
2012-11-27 – How to Schedule an Application to Quit
2012-10-29 – How to Schedule an AppleScript Minutes After Login
2012-10-22 – How to Install Subversion for Trac on Mac OS X
2012-10-16 – How to Install Trac on Mac OS X
2012-10-08 – How to Add Error Checking to Your Shell Scripts
2012-10-02 – Versions
2012-09-27 – Serving svn with httpd on OS X
2012-09-26 – Setting Up glacier-cli on Mac OS X
2012-09-18 – How to Schedule Your Mac to Log Out
2012-09-11 – Serving svn on Mountain Lion - OS X 10.8
2012-09-03 – How to Schedule Time Machine
2012-07-29 – How to Install Java on Mountain Lion
2012-07-27 – Sleep Monitor Reviewed by Macworld
2012-07-27 – Power Manager Recommended by MacReview
2012-07-22 – Backing Up Address Book with AppleScript
2012-07-07 – Activity Audit - Review and Recommendation from Mac360
2012-07-05 – Preparing for Gatekeeper
2012-06-30 – Power Manager 4.1.3 - Preparing for Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper
2012-06-26 – How to Trigger Events When Your Mac is Asleep or Powered Off
2012-05-14 – Sending Requests with the Power Manager SDK
2012-05-09 – Binding with the Power Manager SDK
2012-05-04 – Observing with the Power Manager SDK
2012-05-02 – Connecting with the Power Manager SDK
2012-04-26 – How to Set the Volume When Logging In
2012-04-16 – Shutting Down Your Mac Safely
2012-04-02 – How to Shut Down Your Mac After Inactivity
2012-03-22 – Scheduling a Mac to Shut Down
2012-03-09 – How to Run a Shell Script When Logging Out
2012-02-28 – Sleep Monitor Recommended by For Mac Eyes Only
2012-02-14 – Connecting to Power Manager via the Internet
2012-02-01 – How to Perform an Event with AppleScript
2012-01-18 – How to Turn Off All Event Notifications
2012-01-03 – Happy New Year
2011-12-21 – How to Turn Off an Event's Notifications
2011-12-15 – Sleep Monitor Lite - Personal Mac Power Monitoring
2011-12-12 – How to Make Your Mac Sleep
2011-12-08 – Sleep Monitor 3 Released - Long Term Power Monitoring for Mac OS X
2011-11-22 – Activity Audit on the Mac App Store
2011-11-15 – How to Extend Power Manager with Growl
2011-11-10 – Darth Reviews and Recommends Power Manager
2011-10-24 – How to Display a Message After a Long Task
2011-10-14 – Activity Audit v1.1.1 Released - iCloud Calendar Support
2011-10-09 – How to Enforce a Maximum Use Time on Mac OS X
2011-10-06 – Thank You Steve
2011-09-30 – Extend Your Power Manager Events
2011-09-23 – New Preview of Sleep Monitor 3
2011-09-21 – How to Trigger a Warning When Your UPS Switches to Battery
2011-09-18 – UPS Scripting on Mac OS X
2011-09-06 – Sleep Monitor 3 Preview Released - Mac Energy Auditing
2011-08-12 – IT Enquirer Recommends Power Manager Professional
2011-08-08 – Automatically Waking a Sleeping MacBook
2011-08-03 – Setting up the VNC Server in Mac OS X 10.7 aka Lion
2011-07-28 – Power Manager 4.1.2 and Power Manager Professional 4.1.2 Released
2011-07-28 – How to Launch an Application When Switching to Mains Power
2011-07-26 – How to Schedule Your Mac to Shut Down
2011-07-20 – Power Manager 4.1.1 and Power Manager Professional 4.1.1 Released
2011-07-19 – Power Manager Remote 1.1 Released
2011-07-15 – Power Manager 4's First Anniversary
2011-07-12 – How to Run a Command When Switching to Battery Power
2011-06-29 – Power Manager 4.1 and Power Manager Professional 4.1 Released
2011-05-22 – How to Run a Shell Script Every Day on a Mac
2011-05-05 – How to Fix Power Manager AppleScript Syntax Errors
2011-05-03 – Activity Audit v1.1 Released - Journal Your Mac Activity
2011-04-27 – How to Run an AppleScript After Inactivity
2011-04-20 – How to Make Your Mac Idle Sleep After Different Times on Different Days
2011-04-14 – How to Make Your Mac Sleep After Inactivity
2011-04-11 – Mac360 Recommends Activity Audit
2011-04-07 – How to Play a Song in iTunes at a Specific Time Every Day
2011-03-29 – Activity Audit - New Journaling Tool for Mac OS X
2011-03-24 – DssW on the Mac App Store
2011-03-23 – How to Schedule an iPhoto Slideshow to Play Automatically
2011-03-22 – How to Run an Automator Workflow to a Schedule
2011-03-18 – Fast User Switch to the Login Window After Inactivity
2011-03-16 – How to Energy Schedule Your Museum Macs
2011-03-10 – Make Your Mac Sleep For an Hour
2011-03-07 – How to Schedule Your Mac to Sleep
2011-03-06 – DssW Support for Mac OS X 10.7
2011-02-14 – Battery Report - A New Reporting Tool for Mac OS X
2011-02-11 – How to Run an AppleScript When Switching to Mains Power
2011-02-01 – How to Run an AppleScript On Wake Up
2011-02-01 – Power Manager 4.0.4 and Power Manager Professional 4.0.4 Released
2011-01-28 – How to Run an AppleScript When Switching to Battery Power
2011-01-26 – About.com Recommends Power Manager
2011-01-19 – Mac360 Recommends Power Manager
2011-01-17 – Power Manager 4.0.3 and Power Manager Professional 4.0.3 Released
2011-01-13 – Business Insider Recommends Power Manager
2011-01-12 – dealnews Recommends Power Manager for Saving Energy
2011-01-12 – How to Use iCal to Run an AppleScript
2011-01-02 – DssW Featured in PC Power Management Report
2010-12-19 – Thank You for Saving Energy in 2010
2010-12-07 – How to Schedule Your Mac to Wake Up with AppleScript
2010-12-01 – Power Manager Remote: Updated for the Latest Apple iOS
2010-11-18 – Using the Notification Trigger in Power Manager
2010-11-11 – Using an External Script as an Event Condition
2010-11-02 – How to Power On Your Mac at a Specific Date and Time
2010-10-27 – How to Log Out Users With AppleScript
2010-10-20 – Power Manager Remote: Your New Energy Saving iPhone App
2010-10-14 – Power Manager Rebates for BC Hydro Customers
2010-10-12 – An Energy Saving Cookbook for Mac OS X
2010-10-10 – How to Automatically Log Out Your Mac After Inactivity
2010-10-04 – Costs and Benefits of Supporting Older Macs
2010-10-03 – Thanks to New Wave Systems
2010-09-28 – How to Avoid Passwords in Power Manager Scripts
2010-09-24 – How to Connect To Power Manager Over the Network
2010-09-22 – MacUser Review Praises Power Manager 4
2010-09-16 – How to Run a Script Within Every User Session
2010-09-06 – Power Manager 4.0.2 and Power Manager Professional 4.0.2 Released
2010-09-02 – Power Manager 3.7.4 Released
2010-09-01 – How to Allow Non-Administrators to Run On-Demand Events
2010-08-31 – How to Automatically Stop a PowerPoint Presentation
2010-08-30 – How to Automatically Start a PowerPoint Presentation
2010-08-26 – How to Change On-Demand Behaviour With AppleScript
2010-08-24 – How to Schedule Your Mac to Restart Once a Week
2010-08-23 – Power Manager 4.0.1 and Professional 4.0.1 Released
2010-08-20 – How to Improve Your Back Ups on Mac OS X
2010-08-18 – How to Automatically Stop a Keynote Presentation
2010-08-17 – Macsimum News Reviews Power Manager 4
2010-08-17 – How to Automatically Start a Keynote Presentation
2010-08-13 – Setting up the VNC Server in Mac OS X 10.6
2010-08-12 – How to Automatically Log Out After Inactivity on Mac OS X
2010-08-10 – How to Launch a Program After Inactivity on Mac OS X
2010-08-09 – Allowing Your Schedule to Drift
2010-08-05 – Making your Mac Available - Powering On and Waking Up
2010-08-04 – How to Schedule Your Mac to Power On
2010-08-02 – How to Avoid Overloading Your Servers and Network
2010-08-01 – Adjusting, Delaying, and Cancelling Events
2010-07-29 – Power Manager's New Status Menu
2010-07-28 – How to Schedule an Application to Launch on Mac OS X
2010-07-26 – How to Schedule an AppleScript on Mac OS X
2010-07-19 – Power Manager 4 - Buying Advice
2010-07-19 – Power Manager 3 - Supported Until 31st December 2010
2010-07-19 – New Power Manager Released
2010-05-18 – Power Manager 4 Preview - Improved Automatic Updating
2010-04-23 – AppleScript now available in Power Manager 4 Preview
2010-04-08 – How to Shut Down Your Mac Using AppleScript
2010-04-07 – Buy Now Available in Your Preferred Currency
2010-03-31 – Power Manager 4 Preview
2010-03-13 – Applying EU Energy Star requirements to an iMac
2010-02-27 – EU Energy Star specifications for computers
2010-02-20 – Amendments to EU energy directives
2010-02-13 – EU policy on stand by power consumption for electrical equipment
2010-02-06 – EU policy on computer energy consumption
2010-01-30 – European Commission and the common EU interest
2010-01-24 – Where does EU policy come from?
2010-01-24 – Learning about the European Union
2009-09-03 – Green Gadgets For Dummies recommends DssW
2009-08-27 – Power Manager and Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)
2009-08-27 – Power Manager and Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.9)
2009-08-27 – Power Manager 3.7.3 Launched
2009-08-04 – Mac Gem's reviews Power Manager 3
2009-07-20 – AAUG review awards Power Manager 3 top marks
2009-05-06 – Macworld's greener computing tips recommends DssW Power Manager
2008-10-29 – Discovery Channel's Planet Green recommends DssW Power Manager
2008-08-08 – BC Hydro offers incentive with DssW
2008-06-05 – The Age article about DssW and Mac's Lazy Design
2008-05-23 – Unicode licences: Your details in your language
2008-05-23 – Purchasing for your organisation just got easier
2008-05-07 – Macworld review awards Power Manager 3 high marks
2008-05-07 – Mac's Lazy Design - iMUG Talk
2008-04-02 – Macworld recommends Power Manager
2008-03-31 – Softpedia awards Power Manager 3 high marks
2008-02-18 – Power Manager 3.7.2 released
2008-02-16 – How to log out a fast switched user
2007-12-27 – Trying but not buying?
2007-12-20 – Power Manager 3.7.1 released
2007-12-16 – Power Manager 3's Administrator Friendly Preferences
2007-12-05 – 5 Things To Do Before Carbon Offsetting
2007-11-13 – Little launch celebrations
2007-11-11 – Better documentation through wiki markup
2007-11-05 – Supporting time zone changes
2007-11-02 – More savings for office Macs
2007-10-30 – Sleep Monitor 2.1.2 released
2007-10-30 – Energy Schedule 1.0.1 released
2007-10-29 – Power Manager 3.7 released
2007-09-10 – L'ISP est une Academy Microsoft PRO, Casablanca
2007-09-09 – Great Year
2007-06-13 – A solution for company e-mail signatures
2007-06-13 – Fixes included in Power Manager 3.6.2
2007-05-20 – Fix for Power Manager 3 removal problems
2007-05-20 – Textual login bug on Mac OS X 10.3.9
2007-05-14 – A VNC server is included in Mac OS X 10.4+
2007-05-05 – MacUser Awards Power Manager Full Marks
2007-05-05 – Removing Excessive Quotes
2007-05-01 – MacGeneration reviews Power Manager
2007-04-23 – Thanks to the Hereford Times
2007-04-01 – Power Manager 3.6.1 released
2007-04-01 – Launch Traditions: Let them eat cake
2007-03-20 – Web front-end for Power Manager
2007-03-20 – Response to Joseph Crawford
2007-03-19 – Power Manager 3.6 launched
2007-02-18 – Sleep Centre just got bigger
2007-02-11 – Power Manager 3.5.0: Demonstration expiry bug
2007-02-06 – Power Manager 3 Administrator Guide
2007-02-06 – Wake Assist 1.0 - Fixing your Mac's wake up
2007-01-09 – AppleScripting monthly events in Power Manager
2007-01-07 – Power Manager 3.5
2006-11-20 – Why buy products that help the environment?
2006-11-07 – Sleep Centre keeps getting better
2006-11-05 – Are you a carbon trader?
2006-10-29 – I am making your energy my business