Auto-launch after wake

At the end of my work day, I quit all applications and put my computer to sleep. I'd like certain applications to auto-launch when I wake the computer up the next day. Any suggestions?

Nice idea!
I'm not aware of anything in Mac OS directly that will respond to the machine waking from sleep, however there are a few things you could try.
If you log out, you could add the items to your 'Login Items' and they'd start as soon as you log in.
- OR -
You could create an 'automator' task that launches all your favourite programs, you could save this as an App and put it somewhere easy to find, like on the desktop. You'd need to double click it, but that would be it.

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WARNING:This post may contain profanity or otherwise bear witness of my ignorance and poor upbringing.
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Message was edited by: yappley

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