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Two years back, a feature called hibernate silently went into newer Powerbooks. With a nv-ram setting it was possible to enable hibernation on old Powerbooks as well. A friend of mine pointed me out to this and having done no Cocoa programming at all on Macs I decided to venture into this realm and write a nice interface to it - Hibernate.prefPane was born.
I quickly found out that hibernation wast a feature I wanted and the program lay dormant for the last two years.
I recently bought a new Intel Probook - aeh MacBook Pro - and since then I was annoyed by the hibernation feature which just takes too long to get my Mac to sleep. I remembered Hibernate.prefPane yesterday and gave it a whirl, cause it lets YOU DECIDE which sleep mode you want your Mac in.
It didn't work.
Five minutes later commenting out some stuff ( swapfile encryption works now ) and adding an Intel check ( there is no nv-ram patch needed on Intel ) I was back in the game.
My Mac falls asleep very fastSo I actually thought about renaming it to FastSleep. Which would have provided me an opportunity to refer to an Orson Scott Card book called Hot Sleep which I like. On the other hand hibernation has something to do with bears.
FastSleep would require drawing a new logo - which I'm not good at.
So the name stays - enjoy the bear:
• sleep
• hibernate & sleep
• hibernate
In any case use this software at own risk. There might be a reason why apple enables hibernation only on newer machines.
New in version 1.0:
• Now works correctly with Intel Mac enabling to use JUST Sleep on Intels.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, PowerPC.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.jinx.de/teclog/2007.09.17.hibernate-or-should-i-rename-my-bear.html
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