UPDATE : USE SmartSleep.prefPane the sucessor to Hibernate.

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 Mac’s I decided to venture into this realm and write a nice interface to it - Hibernate.prefPane was born.

I quickly found out that hibernation wasn’t 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 let’s 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 fast :-) So 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:

UPDATE : USE SmartSleep.prefPane the sucessor to Hibernate.