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Safe sleep not so safe on unsupported machines?
More evidence that one should always be cautious with hacks: according to this Accelerate Your Macintosh! reader report, using the PatchSleep utility to enable safe-sleep on Matthew's 12-inch 867Mhz PowerBook resulted in overheating and ultimately ...
Safe Sleep for the rest of us
With the latest iteration of PowerBooks Apple just released, a new feature called Safe Sleep was introduced that Fabienne covered a couple weeks ago. In case you missed it, the short of the long of this handy new feature is that it works like the ...
Safe Sleep for new 15 and 17 inch Powerbooks
When the new Powerbook announcement was made we missed the fact that the two larger models (15 and 17 inch) include a new "Safe Sleep" feature. Macbidouille even had a chance to test this new feature. They report that the feature does ...
Widget Watch: Deep Sleep
Safe Sleep is basically a 'deeper sleep' feature that debuted on the 15-inch and 17-inch PowerBooks last year, and as far as I know, it's included (and enabled by default) on all of Apple's MacBook/Pro portables (and yes, I hear it's basically like ...
Put your laptop to sleep with SmartSleep
You know the drill. Close your laptop's lid or select "Sleep" from the Apple Menu and it does just that - it goes into low-power mode, or "sleep." That's just not good enough. Check out SmartSleep, which puts your MacBook or MacBook Pro into either ...
Snow Leopard extends Wake-on-LAN feature... if your config is right
It's been a stealth feature of modern Macs for years: the ability of a sleeping machine to respond to a 'magic packet' delivered over Ethernet and wake up on command, either triggered by a specialized app or by Apple Remote Desktop. Handy, especially ...
Leopard Boot Camp "fast switching" disappears
Last week we pointed to an interesting addition to Apple's Leopard Boot Camp page: support for faster switching between Windows and OS X using safe sleep in OS X and hibernation in Windows. Well apparently something has changed. As Mac Rumors notes, ...
Hands-on with the underwhelming Apple TV 3.0 update
Regardless of some of the breathless comments coming out about the Apple TV 3.0 update, it appears that Apple TV is still a "hobby" to Apple. That is my impression after updating my Apple TV this afternoon and giving it a short run around the block. ...
Sleep Display, put your monitor to sleep instantly
Sleep Display does one simple thing: run it and it puts your display immediately to sleep, no fuss, no muss. Of course you could turn manually down the backlight, go to the Energy Saver Preference Pane, or even put the entire computer to sleep, but ...
Mac 101: Sleepy success for the portably inclined
Welcome back to Mac 101, our series of posts aimed at novice Mac users and veterans who like the occasional refresher.
If you've owned a Mac portable for any length of time, chances are pretty high that you have had your Mac wake up while stowed ...
Tiger vs. Vista part 2
Way back in August, Paul Thurrott wrote the first in a series of articles comparing the Windows Vista beta to OS X (10.4) and he has just posted the second part of the series. While I still have a problem with comparing a product in beta to a fully ...
Mac 101: 7 tips for Data Privacy Day 2009
Today is Data Privacy Day, a global initiative to highlight information security rights and practices, especially among teens, professionals, corporations, and the government.
As part of the celebration, TUAW (along with our sister blog Download ...
Keep your Mac awake with caffeine
Our Macs work hard, and sometimes they get sleepy. But that doesn't mean they can slack off on the job! To keep your Mac alert and ready to go, check out Caffeine. It's a tiny little app (and at 48KB, we mean tiny!) that puts an icon in your menu ...
Ask TUAW: Choosing an iPhone, used Mac disposal, wake from sleep, podcast software and more
Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about getting an iPhone, disposing of old Macs, wake from sleep issues, exchanging a recent Mac purchase, podcast hardware and software, and more.
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Reports coming in of DST-related Snow Leopard issues
If you experienced some odd performance problems on your Snow Leopard-running Mac early this morning -- say, right around the time of the Daylight Saving 'fall back' to standard time -- you're apparently not alone. The Apple support boards are ...
