Caffeine control

We're once again talking about Caffeine from lighthead Software (makers of Papaya), the freeware menubar app that keeps your screen awake. It's now at version 1.0.2 with one new feature that makes it even more useful: time-limited activation.

A command-click on the coffee cup icon in your menubar presents a menu that allows you to set a variable duration for Caffeine to be activated. Got a 10 minute video to show a friend, but your screen is set to dim or go into Screensaver before the end? Set Caffeine for 15 minutes and forget about it.

We covered Jolt a while back, and this feature was available... for a small, $5 fee (of course, it's worth mentioning that half of those five dollars are donated to charity). But Caffeine has caught up and it remains free. Update your copy or take it for a spin at lighthead's website.

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We're once again talking about Caffeine from lighthead Software (makers of Papaya), the freeware menubar app that keeps your screen awake....

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Aaron Davies

Anyone know of something for doing the opposite, putting your mac straight into screen-off mode on command? basically i have a laptop and want to be able to turn the screen off completely at night w/o waiting for a timeout and w/o fooling with the dimmer keys (which take multiple seconds to respond for me) all while having a sane (~hour) setting on regular screen dimming in energy saver.

April 17 2008 at 2:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Roger Mugs

I'm still using jiggler.app... LOVE it

April 13 2008 at 10:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jason

caffeine is awesome. very cool (and useful) feature!

April 13 2008 at 9:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Please ignore me.

April 12 2008 at 8:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

I bought Jolt and don't regret it. $5 bucks, I like the icon much better, and the interface is easier and better too.

Not there is anything wrong with Caffeine, but if you really like it you should take a look at Jolt and consider supporting Mac developers for the lowly cost of $5.

April 12 2008 at 8:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam Major

Only one small downside â€“ one is now unable to command-click&drag the icon elsewhere in the menu-bar. I already emailed lighthead to make sure they were aware of the subtlety.

April 12 2008 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mason Cantar

This may sound dumb, but it that Terminal in the menu bar?
Hell, can you tell us what all of those are?

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Brett Terpstra

Left to right: Caffeine, Visor, Skitch, iClip, TextExpander, SoundSource... and Time Machine, but you knew that one.

April 12 2008 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Brunner

You pay for this?

I just have the "Custom" Energy Saver settings, in System Preferences and Menu Bar, set to "Never" and "Never", and unchecked the first 2 out of 3 boxes in "Options" so I can select quickly when I don't want my screen to dim...

I don't see why you pay for this fuction when you can already quickly turn it on and off...

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austin

but you dont pay for it...

April 12 2008 at 8:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

C. Grant

This is perfect for Hulu. Thanks for sharing!

April 12 2008 at 5:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Off topic, but what's the headphone icon in the menu bar in the screenshot?

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Justin