GoodNight 1.2

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6 EUR

"My Mac goes to sleep after idle time, so why should I use GoodNight?"
Some applications prevent sleep. I wrote GoodNight, after using a download manager, that has the option "put Mac to sleep when all downloads are finished". The server, I was downloading from, stopped responding for some unknown reason, and the download manager tried over and over again for several hours, so my Mac did not go to sleep.

"How much does GoodNight cost?"
GoodNight is 6 Euro ShareWare. It can easily save you more than this amount on energy costs.

"How can I register?"
Send 6 Euro via PayPal to goodnight@inode.at. Together with the payment you can tell me the preferred name you want to use to register GoodNight. I will send you a mail with your serialnumber as soon as possible, usually within 24 hours. Open GoodNight and choose "Register" from the menu. Enter your name and serialnumber to register GoodNight. If you don't want to use PayPal, you can pay via bank transfer from EU-countries that use Euro (send me a mail to goodnight@inode.at for details). From other countries the bank transfer would cost too much, so please use PayPal, its free and easy.

"Will it run on my Intel Mac?"
Yes. GoodNight is UniversalBinary, running nativ on PPC and Intel Macs.

"Will it run on Mac OS X 10.3.x?"
Sorry, GoodNight requires 10.4.

"What are all these settings?"
Choose a speed with the "Speedlimit" slider. If speed drops to (or below) this value, and stays there for the time you have set with the "Timelimit" slider, GoodNight will send your Mac to sleep. The speed is calculated as a "one-minute-average", so if you have non-constant transfer rates, GoodNight will still work. Sometimes, especially in P2P networks, download speed can drop for some time, just to rise again some minutes later. This is, why I made the "Timelimit" function. On some Networks (e.g. BitTorrent) it can take some time until download speed reaches reasonable values, on other networks (e.g. Hotline) you may have to wait in a queue until your download starts. GoodNight has an option to "Wait until speed has exceeded the set limit". Choose this option to prevent sleep before your download (or upload) has begun. Check "Give up waiting after xx minutes" to send your Mac to sleep if speed still did not go high enough to reach your set limit after xx minutes. In the "Settings" drawer you choose the port GoodNight should watch. If you use EtherNet this will be en0 in most cases, Airport is en1 on some Macs. fw0 is FireWire. If you use none of them, enter the Name of your port in the field. In NetworkUtility (in your Utilities folder) you can see all the ports your Mac has. Choose whether Goodnight should watch your download or your upload traffic. Choose whether you want GoodNight to quit Azureus before sending your Mac to sleep. Don«t forget to click the "Go" button!

"How can I contact you?"
goodnight [at] inode.at

Version History:

1.0 b7

• first public beta

• corrects a bug, that prevented GoodNight to watch ports other than en0
• the speed field is wider now, so the text is not cut on high speeds (>10000 k/s) any more

• final release
• needs registering

• Expanded the 'Quit Azureus' option to quit 'Vuze' and/or 'Azureus'

• The time limit can be set higher (up to 60 minutes instead of 10)
• The names of available network ports are listed in the preferences (e.g. "en1 (Airport)" instead of just "en1"
• You can choose to watch more than one port at the same time (especially useful if you often switch from Ethernet to Airport. Just watch both.)
• Option to start GoodNight activated
• Option to keep GoodNight active, after it has sent your Mac to sleep. So on next wake up, GoodNight is active again.
• Option to watch the sum of download and upload traffic. If you have a download and upload running at the same time, and don't know which will finish first, use this option.