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Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menubar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
The menu now has a sub-menu for deactivating Caffeine automatically after a number of minutes.
The menu now has a sub-menu for deactivating Caffeine automatically after a number of minutes.
What's New
Version 1.1.1:
- Fixed a bug where Caffeine was effective when another user account was active
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menubar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
The menu now has a sub-menu for deactivating Caffeine automatically after a number of minutes.
The menu now has a sub-menu for deactivating Caffeine automatically after a number of minutes.
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sebthedev reviewed on 25 Apr 2012
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Doug S. reviewed on 14 Apr 2012
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Have you right-clicked (or command+click) the Caffeine icon and set the options as you would like it to do anything?
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In the end I settled on using NoSleep, which might not be as feature-rich as this app bug actually works for me.
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I usually have my mac set never to sleep in the General Preferences and have been using this app just to prevent the display from sleeping. So maybe I'm not a typical user, you made me remember.
And Caffeine actually does not allow a MacBook to work in so-called clamshell mode if that's the thing wanted.
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So for anyone who wants to stop their Mac from falling asleep, this might do that but if you want to run it in clamshell mode without an external display this won't help you.
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Reowen reviewed on 11 Apr 2012
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crosstrainer reviewed on 09 Mar 2012
Free, simple, and easy to use.
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zuluwarrior reviewed on 27 Jan 2012
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dieselman reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
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Rshorts reviewed on 29 Apr 2011
Just perfect.
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iminlalaland reviewed on 13 Jan 2011
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I would like to have an option, so that it prevents the CPU from sleeping (programs keep running) but lets the screen sleep (LCD turns off).
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Zaraxul reviewed on 13 Oct 2010
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No info I can see on the developer site on how to update, AFAIK.
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That should help you with just unzipping and replacing 1.03 over the 1.02.
Best wishes
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This app is very helpful and works well. I hope the developer will post instructions for other users wanting to upgrade.
The instructions on how to show the menu is both on our web site and is displayed the first time you start Caffeine. Holding down either the command key or control key while clicking the menu bar icon will do.
Thanks,
Tomas, Lighthead Software
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It's not clear to this user that the command+click would allow you to QUIT the app - this could be indicated more clearly somewhere. And although I probably read the notice upon install a few weeks back- I didn't recall it.
I also am not able to get the menu to appear with a right click on my logitech mouse, which usually is the same as control+click in most of my applications and the finder. I'm unsure if this is a problem with my mouse, or Caffeine.
In any case thanks again for your help.
mlarroyd rated on 11 May 2012
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