May sound stupid, but can you setup an iMac to wake up by simply saying something like "Hello Mac"?
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Can you wake up an iMac with your voice
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I know that there are applications that can do things like take a picture of anyone that moves the move or presses a key. Basically software that is used if you think someone is messing with your computer while you are away. I thought that maybe someone knew of anything like I am looking for, but I guess it is a bit far-fetched. I guess my next thought would be, can I set my iMac to wake itself up at a certain time of day? If so, I could maybe run a script to open up news sites and such in the morning. I sort of dream of having a computer that I could say good morning to and have it serve up my favorite sites like a morning newspaper. 
You can use Automator to load a specific URL - or several - and then create an event in ICAL to run the App created at a specific time each day (as the alarm).I know that there are applications that can do things like take a picture of anyone that moves the move or presses a key. Basically software that is used if you think someone is messing with your computer while you are away. I thought that maybe someone knew of anything like I am looking for, but I guess it is a bit far-fetched. I guess my next thought would be, can I set my iMac to wake itself up at a certain time of day? If so, I could maybe run a script to open up news sites and such in the morning. I sort of dream of having a computer that I could say good morning to and have it serve up my favorite sites like a morning newspaper.
Automator is a great toll for this type of thing. It can even convert tect to speech to greet you each morning.
Great. Thanks. I have not messed with Automator yet but have seen some video tutorials on it. I guess I need to study up on it.
Hmmm, I never knew about that either, so I actually bought an alarm clock
I wonder if this can really be done. Not exactly sure how I would go about it. I've not seen anything in iCal that looks like it would kick off an app. Can anyone clarify how this would be set up?
I know that there are applications that can do things like take a picture of anyone that moves the move or presses a key. Basically software that is used if you think someone is messing with your computer while you are away. I thought that maybe someone knew of anything like I am looking for, but I guess it is a bit far-fetched. I guess my next thought would be, can I set my iMac to wake itself up at a certain time of day? If so, I could maybe run a script to open up news sites and such in the morning. I sort of dream of having a computer that I could say good morning to and have it serve up my favorite sites like a morning newspaper.
sounds like you are looking for one of these:
ICAL Event Alarm Open File - choose the app/file you want to open.
Or create a script to do more complex things and run the script at the designated alarm time.