More flexible startup scheduling

By Ricky Buchanan • April 1, 2008

A question was recently submitted to Macworld’s Mac 911 section which is relevant to many of us with mobility or dexterity problems:

I have muscular dystrophy and have difficulty manually starting my iMac. I use the schedule in System Preferences to turn on the machine but it only offers daily, weekends, or weekdays options. Since I have a different use on weekends is there a way to have multiple schedules?

The other program mentioned in the article comments - iBeeZz - also looks useful and is cheaper than the one they mention.

Website: More flexible startup scheduling

- Ricky Buchanan

Categories: Environmental control, New Software, Other Impairment, Users
Tags: free trial, shareware, start computer automatically, startup schedule, turn computer off automatically, turn computer on automatically

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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