Hi James,
Thanks
On 5 Aug 2007, at 13:26, James Jolley wrote:
Hi,
The tip is a good one. You can restart your machine as well with
controll, command and eject, not to mention shutting it down
entirely with controll, option, command, and eject.
On 5 Aug 2007, at 13:13, James Austin wrote:
Hi James,
Not sure about screen savers, but i have heard that it doesn't
matter with these screens. By the way thanks for the tip on
manually putting the laptop to sleep with command option eject - i
didn't know that
James
On 5 Aug 2007, at 10:27, James Jolley wrote:
Hi Anne,
Right then, I have done this, but the big one to ask is will it
possibly ruine my screen by not having it on? I am using a mac
book laptop machine and I have an apple keyboard attached to it
via USB. I know those screens on the laptops are LCD so I was
just curious if it mattered.
Regarding sleep, I disabled that also and tend to put my own mac
to sleep whenever I am away from it with command, option, eject.
-James-
On 5 Aug 2007, at 08:42, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello everyone,
Unfortunately, when listening to a book or a podcast, there is
no activity on the screen, so if you set the Screensaver to come
on after the computer goes to sleep , it will still be activated
at these inconvenient times. The only solution is to set it to
Never.
HTH
Anne
On Aug 5, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
On 4 Aug 2007, at 22:23, louie wrote:
The bother is my sighted wife will tell me that the screen is
flashing and I must fix it.
And on 8/4/07, James Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added:
Also, it is irritating when your listening to something and
VoiceOver
screams "Screnn saver is on" that isn't fun.
Ah okay. In that case, screen savers provide no advantage over
the Mac
automatically sleeping; they're essentially power-wasting but
screen-saving decorations. A simple solution would be to set the
timeout for screen saver activation to be the same as or longer
than
the timeout for the Mac going to sleep. In effect, the screen
saver
will never be activated because the Mac will fall to sleep
simultaneously or first. Here's instructions:
1. Go to Apple menu.
2. Open System Preferences.
3. Open Energy Saver.
4. Select the Sleep tab.
5. Under "Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for",
slide
the slider to (for example) "1 hr".
6. Press the Screen Saver button.
7. Under "Start screen saver", slide the slider to "1hr".
8. Close System Preferences.
9. That's it. You're done! (in theory...)
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
