![]() True to its name, Caffeine is like coffee for your computer. Double-clicking it again refills the pot, and will keep your machine awake. Double-clicking the icon empties the coffee pot (that’s what the icon is) and temporarily disables the program. ![]() The icon is shown above – it’s the leftmost one in the task tray, and this is all you see. Select ‘Extract All’ then click ‘Extract’ to confirm. Left click once on the file to select it, then choose ‘Extract’ from the Explorer options at the top of the window. Next, click ‘Open Folder’ and find the file named ‘caffeine.zip’. If you are using Microsoft Edge click ‘Save’ to copy Caffeine to your ‘Downloads’ folder. Scroll up and click the link marked ‘caffeine.zip’ to begin the download. Open your web browser and navigate to the Caffeine download page. Once the Setup Wizard launches click ‘Next’ to continue. Click ‘Yes’ to allow the installer to make changes. ![]() To do this, open your web browser and navigate to.Ĭlick the ‘Download’ button then choose ‘Run’ to begin installation. And since it’s free? You’ve got nothing to lose in trying it out.Caffeine is written using Microsoft Visual Studio, so in order to use it you must first install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86). Once it’s installed, you’ll forget that it wasn’t something that shipped with the computer. Once on, Caffeine will keep your computer from going into screensaver or putting the display to sleep.Ĭaffeine is simple and just works. You can tell the app is running because the cup will suddenly appear half full rather than empty. To turn on Caffeine, it just takes a single click on that menu bar cup, and you’ve activated it. Or you can just set it to run indefinitely once invoked. Finally, you can choose how long the shot of C 8 H 10 N 4 O 2 will last. Once installed, Caffeine sticks a small coffee cup icon in your menu bar, and presents you with its preference screen:Īs you can see, there are only a few choices: to start Caffeine upon booting your system to start the system with Caffeine turned on and to always launch the preferences screen. You can download it from their site or from the Mac App Store. ![]() Fortunately, it turns out that you can use the same thing to keep your computer awake that you use on yourself.Ĭaffeine is a small, free app for Mac users by lighthead software. For instance, I don’t want my screen saver coming on while I’m giving a talk or teaching a class. On the whole, I’m good with this but sometimes you just want your computer screen to stay on. Once computer screens got better, screen savers weren’t really necessary any more but they hung on as a vestige because, well, who doesn’t like flying toasters and the perspective of flying through space? These days, my computer isn’t as likely to go into its screen saver as it is just to turn off its monitor to save power. So it’s time to correct this oversight.īack in the early days of personal computing, CRT monitors could develop screen burns, and so the screen saver was born. To my total surprise, however, I discovered that the little menu bar application that I use more than any other except Skitch is something that we’ve never reviewed. My fellow authors are constantly bringing new productivity tools to my attention, and I linked to the different reviews of those tools in that post. It turns out that ProfHacker has been responsible for many of the small applications that sit in my menu bar. A couple of days ago, I reviewed Bartender, a great application for tidying the menu bar on your Mac.
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