TUAW's Daily Mac App: Shuttie

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

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.

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.

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.