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My first Mac was a G4 Powerbook, and one of the principal “wow” factors was the sleep function – close the lid or hit the power button, and the machine would sleep more-or-less instantaneously. Waking up was just as fast, which was always good for impressing the Windows fanbois as they went off for a coffee or three while their Windows machines restarted.

When I upgraded to a Macbook, I found that the sleep function took a lot longer – not so much longer that it wasn’t still impressive to Windows users, but long enough to be irritating to someone used to a Powerbook. That’s because the Macbooks sleep AND hibernate, which takes a while as the contents of memory are written out to disk.

SmartSleep is a free-as-in-beer utility that installs as a preference pane in System Preferences, and allows you to change the default behaviour of the sleep function so that it just sleeps. This is dramatically quicker – but the clever part is that the utility will switch to sleep and hibernate if the battery level drops below a definable threshold.

All of which will save me, oh, minutes per day….

The Metropolitan Police have launched a campaign to make sure we all stay frightened alert for the imminent threat of being gunned down by trigger-happy coppers blown to bits by suicide bombers.

There are several suspicious behaviour traits, apparently – taking pictures, owning more than one mobile phone, and – er – apparently, using doors.

Since at last count I had three mobile phones, at least twenty cameras of various description, and a front door, I suppose I’d better save someone else the trouble and go and hand myself in…