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Sleeping Screensaver 1.0
Sleeping Screensaver is a beautiful screensaver, that comes with a pulsing Apple logo in the middle of the desktop more>>
SleepNow 1.0
SleepNow - Put the computer to sleep from the command line more>>
The advantage is that SleepNow can be run while logged in to the machine from anywhere on the net.
SleepTight 1.0.1
Lock your Mac when it goes to sleep. more>>
Since the screensaver is the only Apple-supplied method of locking your machine without logging out, this means that a machine which has been put to sleep may wake up unlocked if the screensaver did not start on its own before the sleep timeout. This is especially frustrating for PowerBook users, who typically put their machines to sleep by closing the lid. Since the lid closure doesnt start the screensaver, the PowerBook will awaken unlocked.
Apple will be fixing this in the next version of MacOS X (10.3 Panther, see the new features). In the meantime Jaguar users can use SleepTight.
Sleep Script 1.0
Sleep Script - Assign a hotkey to sleep function more>>
By assigning this handy AppleScript application to one of the function keys you can accomplish the same task with a single keystroke.
To allow for an accidental function key hit, the script gives you five seconds to cancel or confirm (on later versions of the Mac Operating System) before putting your computer to sleep. This allows you to hit one key and walk away.
Sleep USB 1.0
Sleep USB - Quit out of any applications running from non-startup drives more>>
This script will attempt to quit out of any applications running from non-startup drives, eject these drives, and then eject the USB card before putting the system to sleep.
Sleep Display 2.1
Sleep Display provides users a very useful Mac OS X Dashboard Widget. more>>
Sleep Display 2.1 provides users a very useful Mac OS X Dashboard Widget. If you have a beautiful new iMac, you know how nice and bright the screen is. Thing is...sometimes a bright screen isn't what you're going for. Enter this widget.
It allows you to IMMEDIATELY sleep just your display so that you can continue running your background jobs. It doesn't permanently affect your energy settings, so when you start working again, your monitor will not sleep immediately. It's a simple widget, but it solves an annoying problem.
Enhancements:
- Added ability to define time until display sleeps
- Updated icon
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (Universal)
<<lessKyle Hatridge - Sleep Display immediately sleeps just your display so that you can continue running your background jobsDeep Sleep 1.1
An hibernation widget for Mac OS X more>> You work hard to take great photography and should be rewarded for your efforts. Watermarking your images is a way to reduce theft and to get recognition for your creative talents.
DropWatermark is an application that allows you to watermark your images quickly and easily. You just configure your watermark and then can create new watermarked images quickly. Your images will be ready to go on the internet and show off your talents.
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Matthieu Beaumel - Deep Sleep - An hibernation widget for Mac OS X. Deep Sleep. The default behavior of Mac OS X is to put sleeping computers in hardware suspend mode, duringSmartSleep 2.6
SmartSleep is created to be a professional preference pane which gives you the ability to dynamically set the sleep state of your machine. more>>
SmartSleep 2.6 is created to be a professional preference pane which gives you the ability to dynamically set the sleep state of your machine. It's a successor to Hibernate.prefPane. The Problem Your macbook or macbook pro knows the following sleep states: sleep: machine will go to sleep only (saves state in RAM only, battery keeps RAM contents) sleep & hibernate: machine sleeps and hibernates. (default) hibernate only machine will go to hibernate only. (saves state on disk, battery will not be used) Just sleep means that the notebook will go to sleep fast, but you loose the ability to change the battery as the battery is needed to keep the contents of the memory (RAM).
Just sleep and hibernate will wake the computer fast, but sleeping will take ages as the contents of the memory are saved to disk before entering the sleep. The solution SmartSleep lets your notebook just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level drops below a certain point ( default is less then 20% or 20 minutes ) it will switch to sleep and hibernate. So you have the best of both worlds.
Enhancements: Fixed permissions on installed directory.
Requirements: mac notebook
iTunes Sleep Timer 1.0
iTunes Sleep Timer - A sleep timer for iTunes more>>
iTunes Sleep Timer is my sleep timer thingy. It lets you type in the number of minutes or hours before iTunes shuts off.
Completly freeware.
secureSLEEP 0.3.1
secureSLEEP - Password protects your Mac during sleep more>>
Besides the security feature, secureSLEEP can automatically eject removable media before going to the sleep mode. This can be enabled/disabled using the preference panel that is included in this bundle.
Especially for those, who do not like to use "hot corners" to activate the screen saver before launching the sleep mode.
Enhancements:
- Automatic password protection!!!
- Now ejects "idle media"
- Icon.
SleepWatcher 2.0.5
SleepWatcher is an effective utility which monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac. more>>
SleepWatcher 2.0.5 is an effective utility which monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac.
It can be used to execute a Unix command when the Mac or the display of the Mac goes to sleep mode or wakes up or after a given time without user interaction. It also can send the Mac to sleep mode or retrieve the time since last user activity.
A StartupItem, sample start and sleep scripts and the source code for sleepwatcher are included in the download. A little bit knowledge of the Unix command line is required to benefit from this software.
Enhancements: Now compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
Bernhard Baehr - SleepWatcher - Execute commands when sleeping or awakening. SleepWatcher. SleepWatcher is a command line tool (daemon
Super Sleeper 1.0.3
Super Sleeper is such a professional and useful application which allows you to quickly change the type of sleep that your Intel based Mac performs when it goes to sleep. more>>
Super Sleeper 1.0.3 is such a professional and useful application which allows you to quickly change the type of sleep that your Intel based Mac performs when it goes to sleep.
By default OS X will not only sleep to RAM but also writes out a hibernate file just in case power is lost while the system is sleeping. For many people who are close to power all of the time, the use of a hibernate file is overkill.
If you are willing to sacrifice the safety net of hibernate, then using RAM based sleep is much faster when putting your notebook to sleep. On a MacBook Pro the difference is time is 10-30 seconds versus 2-3.
- Mac OS X 10.4 or newer Intel Based Mac.
Squeaky Zipper - Super Sleeper offers you a free application allowing you to quickly change the type of sleep that your Intel based Mac performs when it goes to sleep