Hot corners, sleep option

ive had my mac for a few years and and some times look at the available apple downloads page and cant seem to find anything to extend the options on expose hot corners, when i drag the mouse to the bottom left corner id like the mac to sleep (theres an option for the screen to sleep) has anyone found a program that can help with this
(wasent sure where to post this, no expose forum?)

That is very easy to do with an AppleScript and a little app called CornerClick.
Download and install CornerClick. It is a preference pane and can be installed for one user in ~/Library/PreferencePanes, or made available for all users by putting it in Mac HD/Library/PreferencePanes. Just double click CornerClick after you have downloaded it and it will install itself where you wish by answering the onscreen users question. Be sure to go to Sys Prefs/CornerClick/Settings and enable CornerClick.
Next create this tiny AppleScript with AppleScript Editor. You will find the Editor in Apps/Utilities. Cut & paste the following into the Editor and then save it as a Script. You can save it in Mac HD/Library/Scripts or in ~/Library/Scripts. I named it Sleep.
tell application "System Events" to sleep
After you have saved the Script go to Sys Prefs/CornerClick/Actions. Select the corner that you wish to use. Click + to create a new action for that corner. Select the trigger for the action from the dropdown menu below and any modifier key you wish to use. Choose Run AppleScript from the dropdown menu as the action to perform and then browse to the location where you have stored your script by pressing the Choose button. Close Sys Prefs because now you are finished and your new sleep action should be available by executing the trigger in the corner that you chose.
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