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my only wish is that it could also stop sleep when you close the laptop, like how InsomniaX does.

Nice little app. I'm all for anything that let's me be even lazier than I already am. Well done!

I am an optometrist and use an iMac in the exam room to control a second monitor. If I leave Caffeine running, I prevent the second monitor from sleeping too! fantastic! and Thank You...

Great little app! The only thing I'd like is on options to set a default timeout period (so I don't come back in the morning with my iMac still wired and wide awake on caffeine).

gtcaz: you did see the "Activate for..." submenu when you "command click" on the coffee cup, right? So currently it defaults to "forever" but you can override that for a given session with the "Activate for..." menu. Were you asking for a way to change the DEFAULT timeout from forever to something else?

i so love it when i feel like "there should be some app out there to do this" and i find an app that does PRECISELY what i want it to do... no more, no less...

caffeine is indispensable... i wonder, however, whats new in the new version??

EDIT: nevermind, scripting support added... thats wats new... neat!

This app fits the bill perfectly! The only quirk is that it doesn't seem to recognize a right-click on the menu icon...you have to control-click. Maybe that's for nostalgic reasons...LOL. An extremely useful little app.

Anyone here know if it's possible to turn Caffeine ON/OFF via Quicksilver so I can use it to create a keyboard shortcut? Thanks in advanced!

viewer, Caffeine is scriptable. Open it with Script Editor to see its scripting dictionary. I'm sure you could run an AppleScript with Quicksilver.

Thanks for the help! Is it possible for me to make a script that turn caffeine on if it is off and off when it is on? Thanks in advanced!

I emailed the developer. The person who responded was extremely helpful. For anyone else trying to learn how to do it, enter the following script into the Script Editor app (which should already be installed in Mac OS X):

tell application "Caffeine"
if active then
turn off
else
turn on
end if
end tell

I love this app, but like some of the other commenters, I really didn't much care for its icon. Anyone looking for a change, I've found two coffee-cup icons that work really well as a replacement, and look a lot better than Caffeine's icon.

download (Instructions for replacing icons are also included.)

Hi, and for those of you wanting to automate some just add this in your script editor, and save it as an application with "stay open" checked:

on idle {}
my caffeineCheck()
return 5 -- execute every 5 sec.
end idle

on caffeineCheck()
if application "QuickTime Player" is running then
tell application "Caffeine"
turn on
end tell
else
tell application "Caffeine"
turn off
end tell
end if
end caffeineCheck

Edward

great for playing flacs i accidently.. erm. acquire. and with a built-in mp3 converter, i'll have them into my ipod in a jiffy.

lovely app indeed.....

The only things I miss is Last.fm and iWow!!!

It would be nice if the player window could be made as small as Itunes' minimized mode. The current height is quite important imho.

Been using this for a few days as I don't have my external hard-drive with full iTunes library plugged in. I love it! Sure, they could add playlists and a bunch of other features, but I don't think I'd like it as much. It's small, fast and hasn't crashed or stuttered once. I donated via their website.

it's great with VMware and Second Life. i guess a brand new Macbook still isn't good enough to run those while multitasking.

I used to use this a lot with VirtualPC back on my iBook, and I still use it with Doom 3 and Quake 4 on my MacBook Pro. Earlier versions used to have issues with relaunching background apps but that seems to have been resolved now.

The only issues I've had with it is that it doesn't seem to know what to do with the background apps installed and used by Mira and Disctop.