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SmartSleep – a better way to control your Mac’s sleeping

By Oliver Haslam On November 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A few days ago I posted about a Terminal command that allowed users to customize how OS X handles a machine going to sleep. The method worked, but wasn’t the most elegant of solutions. Reader ‘der Dennis’ wrote in the comments about a PrefPane alternative called SmartSleep so I tootled off to the [...]

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Make your MacBook drop to standby quickly

By Oliver Haslam On November 3, 2008 · 4 Comments

Yet more good to come from reading Paul Stamatiou’s blog is this handy little tip to make your MacBook go into standby mode quickly.

If like me you’re an impatient so-and-so, you’ll no doubt be bored of closing the lid on your machine and waiting for the standby light to start flashing. [...]

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