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Sleep sound on my PowerBook
I use SleepWatcher to play a sound every time my PowerBook goes to sleep. In particular, my
.sleep script basically invokes a cmd-line sound player app* such as found here or here. (Experienced AppleScripters could probably do some similar magic with osascript or something.) The sound I have the PowerBook play comes from here.
Yes, it's silly. Yes, it's stupid, but besides making me laugh, it actually does has a practical effect -- it tells me that the PB has shut down successfully before I tuck it away in a carrying case and begin hefting it around. In the past, I've run into a sporadic problem of the PB not sleeping properly when I closed the lid. This created a problem with trapped heat and increased the risk of toting around a unit that I thought was safely asleep that wasn't. --- * BTW, if you are a user of the excellent TextMate text-editor from MacroMates.com, there's an (apparently) undocumented cmd-line sound app already tucked away inside it. Hint: TextMate/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/play) |
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