News and Updates
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Adjusting, Delaying, and Cancelling Events
Power Manager lets you alter your energy saving schedule to suit changes in your own schedule. When setting up an energy saving schedule, we recommend creating events that match to your normal daily or weekly routine. However, it would be foolish to assume your routine does not change. …
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Power Manager's New Status Menu
The status menu is Power Manager's main method of showing you pending events, performing events, and providing quick access to on-demand events. Power Manager 4 introduces a new status menu bar. The status menu has been given a new look and feel, with larger artwork and a new structured layout.
The status menu is Power Manager’s main method of showing you pending events, performing events, and providing quick access to on-demand events. Power Manager 4 introduces a new status menu bar. The status menu has been given a new look and feel, with larger artwork and a new structured layout. …
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How to Schedule an Application to Launch on Mac OS X
Power Manager can schedule applications to launch regularly. The Schedule Assistant includes tasks to help create events that will launch an application daily, on specific dates, or after a period of inactivity.
Power Manager can schedule applications to launch regularly. The Schedule Assistant includes tasks to help create events that will launch an application daily, on specific dates, or after a period of inactivity. …
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How to Schedule an AppleScript on Mac OS X
Power Manager can schedule AppleScripts to run regularly, as part of a schedule. The Schedule Assistant includes tasks to help create events that will run your AppleScript daily, on specific dates, or after a period of inactivity.
Power Manager can schedule AppleScripts to run regularly, as part of a schedule. The Schedule Assistant includes tasks to help create events that will run your AppleScript daily, on specific dates, or after a period of inactivity. …
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Power Manager 4 - Buying Advice
For home and small business customers, we recommend Power Manager. Power Manager includes a Schedule Assistant. The assistant provides a quick and easy way to create your own tailored energy saving schedule. …
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Power Manager 3 - Supported Until 31st December 2010
We will be continuing critical support for Power Manager 3 until the end of December 2010, or until Apple release Mac OS X 10.7 – whichever is sooner. Power Manager 3 has enjoyed five years of being Mac’s leading energy saving solution, and it continues to work well on Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6. …
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New Power Manager Released
Last week, we released Power Manager 4 and Power Manager Professional 4. This release marks a significant leap in Power Manager’s ability to save you time, energy, and money. Power Manager 4 introduces a new energy saving engine. The new engine is capable of supporting features that previous versions could not. New features include the ability to schedule events containing sequences of actions, multiple triggers, and complex criteria. …
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Power Manager 4 Preview - Improved Automatic Updating
Today, we released an update to Power Manager 4 Preview. This preview includes a few bug fixes and a new software update mechanism. You can update directly from Power Manager’s System Preference pane, or by using the download link on the Power Manager preview page. …
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AppleScript now available in Power Manager 4 Preview
Today, we released an update to Power Manager 4 Preview. This preview is the first release to include support for AppleScript. We have been working extremely hard to provide great AppleScript support. Improvements include more natural terminology and support for the make, duplicate, and move verbs.
Today, we released an update to Power Manager 4 Preview. This preview is the first release to include support for AppleScript. This preview includes changes to the event format and application programming interface (API). Existing preview users will need to recreate their schedule after installing. …
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How to Shut Down Your Mac Using AppleScript
To be nice to anyone using our Mac, we want to provide a little notification before shutting down. Let's create an event that will shut down your Mac in ten minutes time. To do this, we can use AppleScript to create a scheduled shut down event.
You can automatically shut down your Mac using AppleScript. The following AppleScript snippet shows the simplest method: tell application "Finder" shut down end tell …
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