Rooster Wake

Rooster Wake is for a computer that should be asleep by default, awake while it is being used, and there when you need it. Send a machine to sleep from the sofa, or from another country. Hold it awake while a long job runs, and let it drop back to sleep ten minutes after the last activity. Wake it before you sit down at it. See what the arrangement saved. THE MACHINE'S DAY • Sleep — one tap, and the machine suspends in seconds • Keep awake — hold it up for a window you choose, and it sleeps again by itself when the window ends • It holds itself up while it is genuinely in use: a remote session, a file transfer, a download, a coding session — and lets go ten minutes after the last activity • Restart and shut down, with every action confirmed rather than assumed • Wake it before you sit down at it, or on a schedule that keeps to the clock through the daylight-saving changes WAKING: THE…