Jan 21

Closed lid with open eyes

A MacBook can close it’s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you.

One of those moments could be

  • A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don’t want anybody to touch it and to see what is on your screen.
  • It is bedtime and you want to listen to my podcast or some other music and set your sleep timer, but the display is too bright.
  • You have a time intensive task like defragmenting harddrive, backup or downloading and want to prevent dust getting on the keys.
  • The screen is no longer used while watching a movie on an external monitor.
  • Just you want it!

A tiny freeware tool called InsomniaX puts some matches into the menubar to simply enable or disable the sleep functions.

Would you require such a function?

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January 21, 2010 • Posted in: Cool Mac OS X Apps

2 Responses to “Closed lid with open eyes”

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  2. Senthil - January 22nd, 2010

    Hi Markus,

    This is a great and cool stuff, I was always thinking of this while listening to songs. Thanks a lot.

    Senthil. T

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