Apr 16

Getting Sleepy

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Did you know you can easily put your mac to sleep by pressing command-option-eject (if you have a dedicated eject key on your keyboard). You’ll need to hold ‘eject’ for a couple of seconds.

How about just sleeping your display? try shift-control-eject!

Of course, if configured in system prefs, you can setup your mac’s power button to put your machine to sleep too.

Got an Apple TV? Put the video-output to sleep by pressing and holding the > (play) button. Note that this doesn’t put the Apple TV to sleep, it just shut’s off the video output.

How do I know all of these? If you don’t have a fast broadband connection, you tend to push a lot buttons. LOL!

Got any more sleepy tricks? post a comment!

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10 Responses to “Getting Sleepy”

  1. David Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Nice trick, thanks :D

  2. Gurubaran Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    This is cool tip! In addition to that, Command+Control+Eject will Restart the machine, Command+Option+Control+Eject will Shutdown

    Control+Eject will give you these various options to choose in between

  3. James Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    nice one gurubaran!

  4. The7thlover Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

    Cool tip! Question: How do i change the power button to sleep instead of shut down? Thanks

  5. Aaron Gott Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    You can also use the apple remote to put your macbook to sleep by holding the play button. It even shows a cool image of a remote with zzz’s flowing off of it before it goes to sleep.

  6. Rob Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 4:18 am

    I simply close my MacBook lid and it Sleeps.

    Can’t possibly get any simpler than that…can it? ;-)

  7. Nick Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    most iPods (except for shuffle and Touch) can be put to sleep by holding down the play/pause button

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