Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-19 Thread Todd Higgins
Actually, hibernation mode is a part of operating systems power management feature. Windows has had it for a while, and it looks like Linux does too, but only within the last year has it become reliable. :-) Regards, Todd On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 20

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jim Sims wrote: > > This tip is very helpful! Some nice applescript on that web page. > It looks like Todd has provided the most brilliant solution; well for recent equipment anyway running OS X. The beauty is that pmset has options for Desktops as well. The lin

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Sims
On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=17554 My initial thoughts would be to work with the listed Documents, not Applications. Have the user set the Recent Document to a reasonable number. By sorting chronologically you should be able to remove a

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Todd Higgins
The simplest solution to this problem would be just make the machine hibernate instead of sleep. Here is the command: sudo pmset -b hibernatemode 1 When on battery power and the sleep command is issued, the laptop will write the memory to disk and then powerdown the machine. I tested it

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Todd Higgins wrote: > Does you friend have a newer Mac (Powerbook G4 SD and newer)? If so, I > would tell him to just put it to sleep. By default the contents of RAM is > written to a disk image. Details on Safe Sleep can be found here: > > http://support.apple.

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Todd Higgins
Does you friend have a newer Mac (Powerbook G4 SD and newer)? If so, I would tell him to just put it to sleep. By default the contents of RAM is written to a disk image. Details on Safe Sleep can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1757 You can even enable it on slighter older mac

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Sims
On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: then again I doubt that my kind of behaviour is normal. Sounds familiar :-) People been saying that about me for years now ;-) sims s...@ezpzapps.com Skype: sims.jim iChat: techietours __ Opportunity by Design

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Bernard Devlin
I don't know how commercially viable such an application is, but circa 1992 OS/2 had this feature built into the GUI, and perhaps in a slightly different (more sophisticated?) way. One just selected a property on a folder to make the folder a "work-area folder". From then on whenever that folder

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Looney
Jim, "The customer is always right." ;-) Best wishes. Paul Looney On Mar 18, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Jim Sims wrote: On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Paul Looney wrote: I agree Colin, Some years ago I was working on a document in Nashville, Tennessee. I closed the lid on the PowerBook, drove 2,000 mil

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Sims
On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Paul Looney wrote: I agree Colin, Some years ago I was working on a document in Nashville, Tennessee. I closed the lid on the PowerBook, drove 2,000 miles west (visiting customers on the way), did not open the PowerBook for almost a week. When I opened the lid in

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Looney
I agree Colin, Some years ago I was working on a document in Nashville, Tennessee. I closed the lid on the PowerBook, drove 2,000 miles west (visiting customers on the way), did not open the PowerBook for almost a week. When I opened the lid in Los Angeles, the cursor was flashing where I'd le

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Jim Ault wrote: but no other levels of automatic restore that I can think of. My first thought would be a set of AppleScripts using Automator (built in to OSX), then have a MyScripts menu to trigger 'save configuration' or just trap events and ask for user in

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Ault
If using ... Firefox, get the add in "Session Manager" - indispensable BBEdit, setup project windows, and it remembers all the open docs/ windows, and their positions across 3 monitors. Photoshop, I use an Applescript to record open images, then reopen the list with a double click on an app.

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Judy Perry
SIMS, You mean, sorta, kinda, like the Safari version of History -> Reopen All Windows From Last Session? I SO love that feature! My MP keeps "losing" its airport card when I have, like, nearly a dozen open search windows going... Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:51 AM

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Terry Judd
Hi Jim - nice idea! I had a look but couldn't get any open files to show up in the file list (is this supposed to be an editable field?). How does this bit work? Terry... On 18/03/09 7:51 PM, "Jim Sims" wrote: > I have a confession to make. > > My question "I'm curious about how many apps the

Re: [ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Luis
Miles away... Although I would assume that even if you 'came clean' in the first instance you'd also get replies, probably even more so. Cheers, Luis. On 18 Mar 2009, at 08:51, Jim Sims wrote: I have a confession to make. My question "I'm curious about how many apps the people on this

[ANN] I have a confession...

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Sims
I have a confession to make. My question "I'm curious about how many apps the people on this list usually have loaded during their work day?" was really market research. I wanted to find out how many apps and files people had opened as they work. About three weeks ago a busy photographer