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Product Description:
OS X does some periodic maintenance tasks at specific times. There are daily, weekly, and monthly periodic tasks that are launched in the middle of the night. If your Mac is not powered up 24 hours a day, probably some (or all) of those tasks are never (or seldom) performed. You can find utilities around the net that allow you to manually launch those tasks, others (like anacron) that, once installed in the system, are repeatedly called to check any skipped cron task. PseudoAnacron takes a different approach: at login (it's a startup application) it checks if the periodic daily/weekly/monthly task was skipped and in that case the task is launched; after that, PseudoAnacron quits, wasting no more CPU cycles.
What's new in this version:
- Totally rewritten in XCode.
- New user interface and easier access to preferences.
- Added a Tiger/Leopard subversion with eye candy Quartz animation.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- 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 later
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Download JAW PseudoAnacron Version 1.5 (File Size: 831k)
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Still needed in Leopard? - Version: 1.5, 3/27/2008 02:33AM PST
(3 of 4 users found this comment useful)
Ronald P. Regensburg
Isn't it so that utilities like Anacron and PseudoAnacron are not needed anymore in Leopard because in Leopard launchd will run skipped jobs?
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- Still needed in Leopard?
- Still needed... (1 replies)
Useful for me 
- Version: 1.4.2, 11/12/2006 01:59PM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
Ronald P. Regensburg
For someone like me, who logs out or shuts down his Mac regularly, this is a very useful utility. It is easy to use (install it, add it to the login items, and forget it), it does not need installations in system folders or modifications of system files, and it works as advertised.
Not sure what the point of this app is - Version: 1.4.1, 6/30/2005 09:15PM PST
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Westside guy
Many people, myself included, don't generally log out of their Macs for weeks at a time - when you aren't using it, just put it to sleep. This application's approach basically would be useless for us.
The real anacron runs as a periodic cron job. It's not sitting there "wasting cycles" either. The advantage to anacron is it'll actually get those periodic tasks done regardless of whether you've logged in recently or not.
The real anacron runs as a periodic cron job. It's not sitting there "wasting cycles" either. The advantage to anacron is it'll actually get those periodic tasks done regardless of whether you've logged in recently or not.
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