I often wanted to leave my computer on when I go to bed but don’t want it running all night – when downloading a torrent for example.
Here is a quick Automator script to use on your mac to do so.
I have used Growl for a couple of notifications. If you don’t have Growl installed you can just delete these actions.
The script is basic in that it doesn’t have any sort of validation of the user entered values.
Run the script and it will ask you to enter a sleep time in minutes. Hit enter and it will then wait to that time before it puts your mac to sleep. Simple eh?
Just open this up with Automator to check it out. It is easy to understand.