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Power Manager is the solution for reducing the energy costs of Mac computers. Use Power Manager to assert control over when your Macs are available and when they are switched off.
Power Manager extends the scheduling functionality provided by Mac OS X's Energy Saver. Unlike Energy Saver, Power Manager is aware of multiple users, offers unrestricted schedules, provides greater customisation, and supports a wider range of actions.
Power Manager includes the ability to schedule applications, launch documents, and run scripts.
Includes AppleScript support,
Power Manager extends the scheduling functionality provided by Mac OS X's Energy Saver. Unlike Energy Saver, Power Manager is aware of multiple users, offers unrestricted schedules, provides greater customisation, and supports a wider range of actions.
Power Manager includes the ability to schedule applications, launch documents, and run scripts.
Includes AppleScript support,
What's New
Version 4.1.2:
- Bug: Fixed timer drift after sleep (Mac OS X 10.7; rdar://9855350).
- Bug: Fixed incorrectly configured local socket warning (Mac OS X 10.7).
- Bug: Fixed minor memory leak in new editor.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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Power Manager is the solution for reducing the energy costs of Mac computers. Use Power Manager to assert control over when your Macs are available and when they are switched off.
Power Manager extends the scheduling functionality provided by Mac OS X's Energy Saver. Unlike Energy Saver, Power Manager is aware of multiple users, offers unrestricted schedules, provides greater customisation, and supports a wider range of actions.
Power Manager includes the ability to schedule applications, launch documents, and run scripts.
Includes AppleScript support, Automator actions, command line interface, and programming interface.
Power Manager extends the scheduling functionality provided by Mac OS X's Energy Saver. Unlike Energy Saver, Power Manager is aware of multiple users, offers unrestricted schedules, provides greater customisation, and supports a wider range of actions.
Power Manager includes the ability to schedule applications, launch documents, and run scripts.
Includes AppleScript support, Automator actions, command line interface, and programming interface.
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This is most evident as the price of their product absurd. They want € 40 for it !!!!!!! And if you bought the previous version for € 22 and you have it before 1. April 2010 (Only after that date can upgrade for free...), you need to invest the entire product DSSW € 22 (Version 3) + € 40 (version 4) = € 62!!!!!! (The annual savings of this amount shall be repaid in approximately 10 years!!!! But then it would be possible again, and version 5 will cost how much? € 70??????) And hurry, because the official support for version 3 of the DSSW end of the last December 2010 !!!!! :-) Really brilliantly conceived! (Look: http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2010/07/19/power-manager-3-supported-until-31st-december-2010/)
Given their stated annual savings count yourself how much you pay on this product ....
Really absurd licensing policy - a pity that the program ...
But - who are so greedy - will ultimately lose a lot. Goodbye DSSW.
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Paulsrandall reviewed on 17 Jul 2010
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When it was a $30 application, one of the complaints was that it was overpriced. Now at $50 it just got worse. Their upgrade policy; "There are no upgrade discounts."
They do have some ROI "studies" on their website, and even those show that generally speaking this is NOT worth the investment.
Maybe the software itself is good, but at this price I'm not interested in giving it a try.
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Fariborz reviewed on 15 Jul 2010
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It's a great program - no doubt about it - but licensing policy DSSW is mildly insane and puff!
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As with previous versions, licensed customers of Power Manager 4 will continue to receive upgrades and new functionality for the lifetime of version 4.
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2008 = one per year
2009 = one per year
2010 = no update
For current users still valid equation: 29 + 50 = $79. (Or comparison purposes only - Adobe Photoshop cost $79). Absolutely no discount. Nothing. Hmmm ... Thank you - I do not want.
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Lpeting reviewed on 31 May 2010
My only complaints are the price and that the interface is a little unwieldy. The price being a little high might be because they are aiming for business customers, plus the bad exchange rate with the Euro.
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In more detail: Energy Saver allows you to set up a scheduled shutdown time. However, if the Mac is sleeping at the appointed time, the shutdown never happens.
A related question I asked was whether it could successfully shutdown if Safari was running. Energy Saver's scheduled shutdown can't: it says that the shutdown was canceled by Safari.
I haven't gotten any response from the developer.
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I've been using PM for years and its been very reliable. Energy saver NEVER worked for me, but PM does what Energy Saver should.
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Power Manager will shut down to a schedule. Any running applications will be quit. Power Manager will quit applications that traditionally block the shut down or log out process.
If you have any questions, please get in touch via: support@dssw.co.uk
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A recording will start at the right time but in 10.4.10 it never sleeps after the recording is done.
Trust me, I've trashed prefs and all that...if anyone has any suggestions or if I'm missing something, please me know.
Thanks
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Using Energy Saver in System Preferences to schedule computer turn-on/off/sleep works well enough.
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I will read the man page of pmset and maybe additional create a cronjob or a LaunchDaemon.
My choice!
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Jetcurieux rated on 10 Dec 2010