Overview

What is PowerController 1.3?

Schedule events to wake your Mac/perform tasks.

In depth

A closer look at PowerController 1.3

PowerController allows you to schedule an unlimited number of events which will wake your computer from sleep, play an iTunes alarm (which will wake your computer from sleep if necessary), or put your computer to sleep.

PowerController is mainly meant to be used as an iTunes alarm clock. There are a lot of alarm clock programs out there, but PowerController has the following advantages over the competition:

Wakes your computer from sleep
Integrated with iTunes
iTunes alarms can play any playlist you have created in iTunes
iTunes alarms can set the initial system volume and iTunes volume
iTunes alarms can have a gradually increasing volume
PowerController can shut off your alarm if you don't dismiss it after a designated time period (so that your neighbors don't call the police when you go away for the long weekend)
You may schedule an infinite number of events
PowerController runs in the background -- you don't have to have an app hogging Dock space
You don't have to enter an administrative password every time you want to set an alarm
Snooze feature
A status item may be kept in your menu bar for easy access to info about scheduled events
Free, unrestricted 30-day trial

Verdict

Should you download PowerController 1.3?

PowerController 1.3 runs on Mac OS and is available under the Shareware license — the installer is 397 KB. We’ve catalogued it under System.

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