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How to Allow Non-Administrators to Run On-Demand Events
You may want to provide non-administrator colleagues with the ability to trigger on-demand events. This can be particularly useful where an event is used to perform back ups or run a script requiring elevated privileges. Let's look at how to ease this security requirement.
Power Manager lets you create on-demand events. These are events that can be manually triggered at any time. On-demand events appear in Power Manager’s status menu bar. Update: This recipe applies to Power Manager 4.1.6 and earlier. See Triggering On-Demand Events for Non-Administrators for the latest recipe. …
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How to Automatically Stop a PowerPoint Presentation
Today, we will walk through how to stop a PowerPoint presentation. As with starting a presentation, stopping the presentation will require a little AppleScript.
Yesterday, we looked at starting a PowerPoint presentation to a schedule using Power Manager. We used a small AppleScript to open PowerPoint and start the presentation playing. Today, we will walk through how to stop a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation with Power Manager. …
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How to Automatically Start a PowerPoint Presentation
I would like to cover how to automatically start a PowerPoint presentation on Mac OS X. Unlike Keynote, starting a PowerPoint presentation requires a little bit of AppleScript. If you are not familiar with AppleScript, do not worry. We will walk through each step needed.
We recently discussed how to both automatically start a Keynote presentation, and how to automatically stop a Keynote presentation, all to a schedule. This time, I would like to cover how to automatically start a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on Mac OS X using Power Manager. …
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How to Change On-Demand Behaviour With AppleScript
On-demand events are useful. On-demand events appear in Power Manager's status menu bar and can be triggered with a single mouse click from within any application.
On-demand events are useful. On-demand events appear in Power Manager’s status menu bar and can be triggered with a single mouse click from within any application. The Schedule Assistant creates certain events as on-demand. This is automatic and handled entirely by the Assistant. …
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How to Schedule Your Mac to Restart Once a Week
It can be useful to ensure your Mac is restarted at least once a week. In managed environments, such as classrooms and labs, Macs can go many weeks without being shut down or restarted. Being able to automate a restart once a week is possible with Power Manager.
It can be useful to ensure your Mac is restarted at least once a week. In managed environments, such as classrooms and labs, Macs can go many weeks without being shut down or restarted. Being able to automate a restart once a week is possible with Power Manager. …
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Power Manager 4.0.1 and Professional 4.0.1 Released
Power Manager 4.0.1 and Power Manager Professional 4.0.1 are now available. These updates fix bugs discovered since launching last month, and include a handful of small refinements.
Power Manager 4.0.1 and Power Manager Professional 4.0.1 are now available. These updates fix bugs discovered since launching last month, and include a handful of small refinements. Changes Since v4.0.0 Bug: Fixed bug in framework where invalidating a connection within a callback could crash the application. …
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How to Improve Your Back Ups on Mac OS X
Backing up your personal files is an essential, if mundane, task. One day you will experience problems with your Mac that risks loosing important files, documents, or photos. There are three steps you should take to secure your irreplaceable information:
Backing up your personal files is an essential, if mundane, task. One day you will experience problems with your Mac that risks loosing important files, documents, or photos. There are three steps you should take to protect your irreplaceable information: …
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How to Automatically Stop a Keynote Presentation
Yesterday, we looked at how Power Manager can be used to automatically open and start a Keynote presentation. Today, we will create an event to stop the presentation at a specific time each day.
Yesterday, we looked at how Power Manager can be used to automatically open and start a Keynote presentation. Today, we will create an event to stop the presentation at a specific time each day. Paired together these two events can be used to start and stop Keynote presentations without needing to touch the Mac. …
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Macsimum News Reviews Power Manager 4
Our thanks to Frank Petrie, Macsimum News, for reviewing Power Manager 4. Frank gave Power Manager full marks - a 10/10 rating.
Our thanks to Frank Petrie, Macsimum News, for reviewing Power Manager 4. Frank gave Power Manager full marks - a 10/10 rating. Power Manager is what Apple provides in OS X, but juiced, enabling you to concentrate on your work and leaving the daily myriad of small tasks to the app to manage for you. …
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How to Automatically Start a Keynote Presentation
Ever wondered how conference venues, theatres, and businesses control there large screen televisions and projectors? Most organisations use a surprisingly simple combination of a Mac and some presentation software.
Ever wondered how conference venues, theatres, and businesses control their large screen televisions and projectors? Most organisations use a surprisingly simple combination of a Mac and some presentation software. The Mac need not be particularly powerful - a Mac Mini is more than enough. …
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