{"id":218,"date":"2009-01-20T01:40:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T06:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/control-screen-saver-security-with-automator\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T01:40:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T06:40:44","slug":"control-screen-saver-security-with-automator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/control-screen-saver-security-with-automator\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Screen Saver Security With Automator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/files\/Set%20Screen%20Saver%20Security.action.zip\">Set Screen Saver Security<\/a> sets the time until the screen saver activates, and whether a password is required to unlock the screen saver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/preview.png\" alt=\"Preview.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"562\" height=\"155\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every company I&#8217;ve worked for that had an office also had a rule that any computer in the office had to be password-protected with a screensaver that kicked in pretty quickly.  But at home it&#8217;s annoying to have to unlock your own laptop when you get up to make a sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>If you use the same computer at home and in the office, <a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/imlocation\/\">IMLocation<\/a> can use this action to lock down your computer at work, but leave it easy-to-use at home.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/imlocation\/\">trying IMLocation<\/a> (which includes the Set Screen Saver Security action) for best results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set Screen Saver Security sets the time until the screen saver activates, and whether a password is required to unlock the screen saver. Every company I&#8217;ve worked for that had an office also had a rule that any computer in the office had to be password-protected with a screensaver that kicked in pretty quickly. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,42],"tags":[73,301,311,310],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-security","tag-automator","tag-imlocation","tag-password","tag-screensaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}