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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. …
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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. …
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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. There is also a Pro version for use in a small office (imagine the cost savings). …
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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. …
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Setting up the VNC Server in Mac OS X 10.6
A VNC server is included in every edition of Mac OS X, including Mac OS X 10.6 - aka Snow Leopard. You can start the server through a hidden check box in the Sharing preferences.
A VNC server is included in every edition of Mac OS X, including Mac OS X 10.6 - aka Snow Leopard. You can start the server through a hidden check box in the Sharing preferences. …
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How to Automatically Log Out After Inactivity on Mac OS X
Power Manager can automatically log out inactive users. Being able to log out inactive users is designed for use in school computer labs and in situations where computers are shared. By automatically logging out an inactive user, the Mac becomes available for the next person to use.
Power Manager can automatically log out inactive users. Being able to log out inactive users is great for use in school computer labs and in situations where computers are shared. By automatically logging out an inactive user, the Mac becomes available for the next person to use. …
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How to Launch a Program After Inactivity on Mac OS X
Power Manager can launch applications, documents, and scripts after inactivity. The Schedule Assistant includes a task to help create events that will launch an application after inactivity.
Power Manager can launch applications, documents, and scripts after inactivity. Thanks to improvements in Power Manager’s scheduling engine, you can now create multiple inactivity triggered events. Imagine creating an event to warn the user after ten minutes of inactivity, and a second event to automatically log out after twenty minutes of inactivity. This is possible with Power Manager. …
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Allowing Your Schedule to Drift
Mac OS X's ability to schedule hardware power on and wake up is great. However, it does have some limitations. One limitation in particular affected Power Manager's availability field.
When we took the decision to move Power Manager’s power on and wake up capabilities into the trigger structures, we had to accept and overcome a potential problem. Power Manager does not directly power on or wake up your Mac; this capability is handled by Mac OS X and the Mac’s hardware. Software such as Power Manager, and Apple’s own Energy Saver, have to delegate the task to the underlying operating system. …
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