{"id":20,"date":"2006-01-04T19:52:55","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T03:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=20"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:34:22","slug":"laptop-power-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2006\/laptop-power-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Power Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re using your laptop in a live show, the last thing you want is for it to go to sleep on you.  While you&#8217;re running cues or performing, it might seem wide awake, but if there&#8217;s a 10-minute gap where you&#8217;re not touching the mouse or keyboard, it might decide to take a nap on you.  Make sure you have your power settings properly set before the show starts&#8211;here&#8217;s how you do it in OS X:<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b> First, find the <b>Energy Saver<\/b> panel in your System Preferences.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/power_settings01.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b> For Panther and earlier, choose <b>Highest Performance<\/b> to shut off all your sleep settings in one swoop.  (Be sure to change it back when the show&#8217;s done; no need to keep spinning your hard disk all day during normal use.)<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/power_settings02.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><br \/>\nThe same setting in Tiger is called <b>Better Performance<\/b>, and you can set it right from the menu bar:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/power_settings03.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p>One more power-management tip&#8211;no matter what you set here, your machine will probably be faster if it&#8217;s plugged in.  When you&#8217;re running on the battery, most laptops ratchet down their speed as the charge runs out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re using your laptop in a live show, the last thing you want is for it to go to sleep on you. While you&#8217;re running cues or performing, it might seem wide awake, but if there&#8217;s a 10-minute gap where you&#8217;re not touching the mouse or keyboard, it might decide to take a nap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}