Markus Zeller Blog » power http://www.markuszeller.com Life is just a game Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:09:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Closed lid with open eyes http://www.markuszeller.com/closed-lid-with-open-eyes http://www.markuszeller.com/closed-lid-with-open-eyes#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:32:56 +0000 Markus Zeller http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1487 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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