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Shuttie

Ever wanted to leave your Mac running unattended at night, but don't want it running all night long? Today's Daily Mac App will help you do just that.

Shuttie allows you to bind one of six actions to a countdown timer, allowing you to shutdown, restart, sleep or logout of your Mac, or fire off an AppleScript or an alert. You select the action you want, the countdown time and hit the activate button. Shuttie will provide periodic Growl notifications as it counts down to zero, as well as a timer on its dock icon, and then it will initiate whichever activity you've got selected. Loading an AppleScript is a drag-and-drop affair while your desired alert text is entered into a text box.

Sure, there are other ways of doing this kind of thing, but Shuttie is a good way to set up these tasks to be performed remotely. It's US$1.99 in the Mac App Store.



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Shunnabunich

I found a free Dashboard widget which does it, called, simply, Off. It was in Apple's widget directory.

May 11 2011 at 8:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Thomas

Thanks for the Off recommendation. I'm going to try that one out.

May 17 2011 at 6:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
south

Whenever I use a shutdown timer on my mac, I always wake up in the morning to find some unsaved document dialog, or unresponsive application, has canceled the shutdown. Yeah, I know this is sometimes my fault.

May 11 2011 at 5:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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brian

Technically, yes, the unsaved documents are your fault. :-) What I *really* hate are Illustrator and Excel--both will stop shutdown to ask "There is a large amount of stuff on the clipboard.* Do you want to discard?"

Instead of telling your machine to shut down, try setting it to sleep instead. A sleeping Mac uses almost no energy. (My Kill-A-Watt shows zero watts when asleep.) And it can sleep in any state.

* Stupid Excel will show that message if you copy 51 blank cells. Thanks, MS, that was really slowing down my multi-gigabyte machine.

May 11 2011 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Allen

Some of this capability is built into the OS under energy saver settings including startup, wake, sleep, restart, and shutdown on various schedules.

May 11 2011 at 3:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tuaw

"Sure, there are other ways of doing this kind of thing"

And they are free and come with Mac OS X.

May 11 2011 at 3:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Samuel Gibbs

Agreed, but then 'built into OS X' doesn't make for a great Daily Mac app ;) We didn't say every app featured would be stellar, or be the only way to do something, only that there would be an app featured and we'd tell you what we thought.

Frankly, if any of you, our dear readers, have wanted to do this, you'll probably have found some sort of app, or system to do it already. But on the off chance, here's an option to consider :)

Theory is that by covering one a day, we'll have a good library to choose from in the near future.

May 17 2011 at 6:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tuaw

I guess I'd rather see articles about apps with new or improved functionality than about those that just duplicate what comes with the system.

May 17 2011 at 2:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
someone

I prefer Lullaby. Much simpler, unobstrusive and great looking.

May 11 2011 at 3:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The Jesus

Had an app for this for a long time. (more widget-like) Save your $2.

http://www.macshareware.com/review/iwannasleep

May 11 2011 at 3:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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