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Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
Caffeine is a small but useful desktop utility that enables the user to control sleep, dimming and screen saver timings of their screen. With one click on the menu bar icon you can prevent your screen of ever going into sleep mode, and if you wish to access the properties of the Caffeine for macOS, just hold down Command key while clicking on it.
This incredibly lightweight application (with size of around 250 KB) is not useful only for Mac laptop users that want to have better control over their battery life by tight management of their screen power usage, but also to desktop users who don’t want their data to be showcased on screen too long if they are not sitting and working on their Mac. Configuration screen of Caffeine is incredibly simple, offering just few options – launch app at start, launch app at login, notify user when this app is launched, and set time duration how much the app will remain active after you turn it on by simple clicking on it at your menu bar (from few minutes to indefinitely). As an added feature you can also set up a timer for deactivating Caffeine for Mac, for example after your work hours are done. Even though this app does not offer anything groundbreaking, its simple execution and ability to tweak one part of Mac OS X system that can affect anyone makes it very attractive to a large amount of people. Give it a try. Related Articles
Caffeine is a small utility that prevents your Mac computer from sleeping or from displaying the screen saver as long as you keep Caffeine enabled. This is an especially useful utility for situations when you are presenting for a meeting from your Mac and you do not wish the screen saver to launch at some point during the meeting. This utility enables you to easily toggle its behavior so you can keep your default power saving settings intact and only temporarily use Caffeine to keep your system awake when you wish.
Download and install the latest version of Caffeine from the App Store on your Mac.
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Click 'Automatically start Caffeine at login' in the 'Welcome to Caffeine' window if you wish to have this application run every time you log in. This setting will not necessarily keep your machine awake. This setting only puts the Caffeine icon in your top menu bar.
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Click 'Activate Caffeine at launch' if you wish Caffeine to be enabled, which means prevent your machine from sleeping, as soon as it is launched. Click 'Close.'
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Click the Caffeine icon in the top menu bar to toggle Caffeine's activity. If the coffee cup icon appears as a full cup of coffee, then Caffeine is enabled. If the icon appears as an empty cup, then Caffeine is not enabled.
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Granby, John. 'What Are the Directions for the Caffeine App on a Mac?' Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/directions-caffeine-app-mac-64721.html. Accessed 23 March 2020.
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