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Category Archives: Design
Automatically Waking a Sleeping MacBook
We are often asked if it is possible to wake a sleeping MacBook or MacBook Pro with the lid closed and running on battery. Apple’s laptops do not allow this behaviour.
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How to Allow Non-Administrators to Run On-Demand Events
You may want to provide non-administrator colleagues with the ability to trigger on-demand events. This can be particularly useful where an event is used to perform back ups or run a script requiring elevated privileges. Let’s look at how to ease this security requirement. Continue reading
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Tagged /etc/authorization, dssw, pmrights, Power Manager
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How to Change On-Demand Behaviour With AppleScript
On-demand events are useful. On-demand events appear in Power Manager’s status menu bar and can be triggered with a single mouse click from within any application. Continue reading
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Tagged AppleScript, dssw, on-demand, Power Manager, recipe
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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. Continue reading