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Here’s what’s new in version 2.1:
All of the sub-components of PowerController are now built as Universal Binaries, providing better performance on Intel Macs. Previously, one of the sub-components was not Universal and thus ran under Rosetta on Intel Macs.

This update is ONLY for OS 10.4 (Tiger). If you are using another version of OS X, please download the appropriate version of PowerController from http://keakaj.com/powercontroller.htm.

PowerController is an iTunes alarm clock that is simple to use and packed with amazing features:

• Wakes your computer from sleep
• Integrated with iTunes
• Plays any iTunes playlist
• The initial system volume and iTunes volume are customizable
• iTunes alarms can have a gradually increasing volume for a soothing wake experience
• 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 a long weekend!)
• iTunes alarms and wake events can launch an application, open a file, or run a script
• Set a different wake time and playlist for every day of the week!
• You may schedule an unlimited number of events
• PowerController runs in the background — there is no app hogging Dock space
• Configurable via System Preferences
• Admin password is NOT needed to set an alarm that wakes computer from sleep
• 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

PowerController can also be used to schedule times for your computer to go to sleep or wake up (with or without an iTunes alarm).

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We’ve added 2 new free carriers to our SMS widget for your Apple Dashboard.

Now you can send free text messages to Unicel and SaskTel Mobility, in addition to the free carriers already supported. The SMS widget now supports sending free SMS messages to 29 carriers in the USA and Canada.

The SMS widget lets you send free SMS text messages to phones in the USA and Canada, and cheap messages worldwide!

The free SMS carriers now include:

• ACS Alaska, Alltel, Arch Wireless Pager, AT&T, Boost, Cellular South, Cingular, Cricket, Dobson, Metro PCS, Metrocall Pager, Midwest Wireless, Nextel, Sprint, SunCom, T-Mobile, Unicel, Verizon, Verizon Pager, Virgin Mobile, Qwest, and “Beats me!” in the USA.
• Bell Mobility, Fido, MTS, Rogers, SaskTel Mobility, TELUS, Virgin Mobile, and “Beats me!” in Canada.

We’ve added 4 more free carriers to our SMS module for your personal Google homepage.

Now you can send free text messages to Dobson Cellular, Metrocall Pager, Unicel, and Virgin Mobile Canada, in addition to the free carriers already supported. The SMS Google module now supports sending free SMS messages to 28 carriers in the USA and Canada.

The free SMS carriers now include:

• ACS Alaska, Alltel, Arch Wireless Pager, AT&T, Boost, Cellular South, Cingular, Cricket, Dobson, Metro PCS, Metrocall Pager, Midwest Wireless, Nextel, Sprint, SunCom, T-Mobile, Unicel, Verizon, Verizon Pager, Virgin Mobile, Qwest, and “Beats me!” in the USA.
• Bell Mobility, Fido, MTS, Rogers, TELUS, Virgin Mobile, and “Beats me!” in Canada.

We’ve also added an SMS address book feature, so you can quickly select your contacts and send them free SMS messages.

The SMS Google module also lets you send cheap SMS messages worldwide, with reliable SMS delivery to over 180 countries. In Worldwide SMS mode, you can specify your Sender ID, receive SMS delivery acknowledgments, and view your SMS history online.

Here are the exciting new features we’ve added to our worldwide SMS service:

• Added option to receive delivery acknowledgments by email. You’ve always been able to see your message status on your history page, and now you can get notified by email as soon as your message arrives on the recipient’s phone.
• Added option to always use a delivery route that supports delivery acknowledgment.
• Added option to always use a delivery route that supports Sender IDs.

All of these new features can be enabled by checking the appropriate checkbox on your account page. Do you need an account? It’s cheap and easy… get started now!

Features of worldwide SMS:

• Type messages using a full sized keyboard instead of a tiny phone keypad.
• Quickly send messages from your Dashboard using the SMS widget. The widget integrates with your Mac OS X address book.
• Send messages from any web browser.
• Reliable delivery to over 180 countries.
• View your message history online.
• Specify a Sender ID. In most cases, this allows the recipient to see who messages are from and reply to them.
• Supports all of the ‘special’ characters! For example: € £ ¥ è é ñ ç ß ä å ¡
• In the rare case a message can’t be delivered, you will be notified by email.
• It’s cheap! Just 9 cents or less (€0,09) to send a message to most countries.

For a list of supported countries and the number of credits for each country, check our coverage table.