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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. The best way to schedule your AppleScript, is to create an event and include the AppleScript within the event itself. …
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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. With Power Manager’s Schedule Assistant, you can create events that: …
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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. …
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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. …
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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 The above AppleScript asks the Finder to begin the shut down process. Sadly this short and simple method is not perfect. …
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Buy Now Available in Your Preferred Currency
We are now accepting web site payments in US Dollars ($ / USD), Euros (€ / EUR), and Great British Pounds (£ / GBP). When buying any of our energy saving solutions, you can now select your preferred currency and purchase immediately, without conversion fees and exchange rates getting in the way. …
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Power Manager 4 Preview
Power Manager 4 introduces a lot of new features. We have been helping our customers save energy with Power Manager for over a decade, and we believe we can help you save even more.
Today I am pleased to announce the first public preview of Power Manager 4. The preview is free and available to download immediately. This is a preview of our latest work. As a preview, Power Manager 4 is not yet feature complete and some elements may be omitted or restricted in function. …
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Applying EU Energy Star requirements to an iMac
A detailed look at how the EU Energy Star specifications apply to an Apple iMac, 21.5 inch, 3.06GHz (model MB950) computer.
In my previous post, I looked at the European Union (EU) Energy Star specifications for computers. This week, I decided to apply the specifications to a computer that is currently available to purchase; I walk through the calculations used to determine whether the computer meets the Energy Star requirements as set out in Commission Decision 2009/489/EC. …
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