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Category Archives: AppleScript
How to Perform an Event with AppleScript
Power Manager lets you build events capable of performing complex sequences of actions. Power Manager also lets you schedule these events to occur on specific triggers, such as the time of day or after user inactivity. What if no trigger suits your needs? In this situation, you will want to perform the event yourself. Continue reading
How to Make Your Mac Sleep
This article shows how to put your Mac to sleep using a variety of methods. We will walk through how to make your Mac sleep using AppleScript, Automator, and the command line. Continue reading
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Tagged AppleScript, Automator, command line, sleep
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How to Extend Power Manager with Growl
Power Manager supports the open source notification utility, Growl. Growl lets you customise how and when you see notifications from your favourite applications. Continue reading
Posted in AppleScript, PM4, Power Manager, Recipe
Tagged Growl, notifications, open source
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How to Display a Message After a Long Task
Power Manager is frequently used to start long running tasks. While any event is running, Power Manager’s menu bar changes to show a small cog. Sometimes this small indicator is not enough. Continue reading
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