TUAW's Daily Mac App: Caffeine
Caffeine, like a shot of coffee at night, keeps your Mac awake and your screen bright. We first covered it a few years ago.
A tiny menu bar utility, Caffeine prevents your Mac from activating the screen saver or sleeping when idle. Presenting as a cup of coffee, the icon indicates whether Caffeine is active, denoted by a full cup of coffee, or inactive, when the coffee cup is empty.
Caffeine is activated by clicking on the menu bar icon. You can define a set period of activity from five minutes to five hours, or set it to be active indefinitely via a right-click or in the settings.
While you can replicate the features of Caffeine using System Preferences, having a quick and easy sleep preventer in your menu bar is a real boon. It's cute, effective, and best of all, Caffeine is absolutely free. Grab it now from the Mac App Store.
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The link provided starts up iTunes, which then declares that Caffeine is only available on the US Store, and would I like to switch stores?
I had to manually start the Mac App Store app and search for it but had no problems downloading when I did.
Why haven't they implemented direct-to-Mac-App-Store links like they have iTunes links?
(Or is this because I am still using OSX 10.6.6 ? Or Safari 5.0.4 ?)
How is this different than Jiggler?
June 14 2011 at 8:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOne of my favorite apps! I use it daily.
June 13 2011 at 10:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy would you want this? I don't see the use. Maybe for watching movies?
June 13 2011 at 5:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI used it when taking 3-hour, practice, actuarial exams on the computer. You don't move the mouse much, since you're busy working out problems out on paper, and rather than adjust my display settings all the time, I could just click the icon in the taskbar. Great little app!
June 13 2011 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi've also been using this since TUAW posted about it before, and i have loved it for years!! =]
June 13 2011 at 4:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've been using this for years, very handy
June 13 2011 at 3:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis has been one of my must-have Mac apps for ages now… it's great now that it's on the App Store, too, as once I log in I can pull it down along with a few other essentials in a snap.
June 13 2011 at 3:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNow you really CAN use a g4 iMac as a lamp...
June 13 2011 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs there any app similar to this that prevents your laptop from sleeping when closing the lid??
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