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Product Description:
NMS is a utility to force system sleep at a set idle time or on Screen Saver activation. It can follow Energy Savers settings in an "install and forget" way or operate completely independently. For me this solves the recurring problem of an invariably corrupt power manager preventing automatic sleep and the frequent dead batteries that result. Simple as this solution is it has worked great for me. My laptop ALWAYS sleeps. NMS now has provisions to allow for unattended wake events, like answering the modem or a scheduled wake-up, and per-application control over holding sleep, plus general improvements. If you can put your machine to sleep manually (short of being required to close the lid if it's a laptop) then NMS should be able to restore unattended sleeping on your machine.
What's new in this version:
This version is a Universal binary but is otherwise unchanged from v2.3 beta 3.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.9) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.9) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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A simpler way to put your machine to sleep... - Version: 2.4b, 4/11/2009 11:32AM PST
dsorel
If you want your computer to sleep without having to install a bunch of stuff on it, then try PleaseSleep. It's a very small app that puts an item in your menubar: http://www.dragonone.com/products/macosx/pleasesleep/ Very simple, and works as well as NMS.
Finally my G5 can sleep. - Version: 2.4b, 11/26/2007 12:29PM PST
imontague
My PPC G5 tower has had the USB derived no sleeping problem that is well documented on many forums. Basically hubs hung off the machine or non USB 2 devices plugged into those hubs, or added PCI USB cards, cause these machine to not sleep. If fact Sonnet says on their web side that their card does not support deep sleep. Well NMS has so far enabled my G5 to sleep without making any changes. So far the only this that prevents sleep is a card reader plugged into the hub. Once this is unplugged after use all is well. Thank you very much for the product.
Finally my G5 can sleep. - Version: 2.4b, 11/26/2007 12:28PM PST
imontague
My PPC G5 tower has had the USB derived no sleeping problem that is well documented on many forums. Basically hubs hung off the machine or non USB 2 devices plugged into those hubs, or added PCI USB cards, cause these machine to not sleep. In fact Sonnet says on their web side that their card does not support deep sleep in 10.4. Well NMS has so far enabled my G5 to sleep without making any additional changes. So far the only thing that prevents sleep is a card reader plugged into the hub. Once this is unplugged after use all is well. Thank you very much for the product.
