Apple Remote

I often enjoy watching movies on my 24" imac in my bed, before falling asleep. One small issue I have is that after the movie is finished, I have to get up out of bed, and turn my computer off before falling asleep. This is a small hassle I know, but I was wondering if there's an App or anything that can enable my apple remote to also put my computer to sleep somehow, so I really do not have to touch my computer to put it to sleep. Any ideas?

You could always set it to go to sleep/turn off the display after being idle for an x number of minutes. I believe watching a video doesn't count as being idle, so it won't turn off a couple minutes in.

All Macs have this feature already built in with the remote. Simply press and hold the play/pause button in till the remote shows on the screen with the Zs floating around it. It will sleep.

Just tried it, definitely works. That was really neat, didn't know you could do that.

Kash said:

Just tried it, definitely works. That was really neat, didn't know you could do that.

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I should also point out that the computer can be woken up the same way, hold the pause/play button on the remote.

Oh great, they really have thought of everything.