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By: danco

danco — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:24:14 +0000

I use Jiggler rather than Caffeine, because Jiggler is an ordinary application which I can open or quit using a script (AppleScript or shell script). I have not yet found a way to do this with Caffeine, and there are situations where I wnat to be able to script turning the functions on and off.

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By: Elmak

Elmak — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:22:59 +0000

Bruce A- I use a laptop. My energy settings are generally pretty low. Around 15 minutes. However if I’m doing something that I want me screen to stay on indefinitely, such as watching videos on the internet or other processes that don’t override your energy settings.

Sure, I could change the energy settings every time- but that’s a bunch of steps- and I have to remember to set them back or my laptop winds up with a dead battery. Caffeine uses I think 3mb of memory (smaller than the system clock!) and I’ve not even seen it take 0.1% of CPU time when I sit there clicking on it!

And it’s freeware- I’m not paying for this feature. (Though I own a different software product from the same developer, so I like to think I’ve supported it.)

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:14:22 +0000

You know what keeps your Mac from going to sleep? Telling it not to. System Preferences> Energy Saver> Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for… Drag that slider to Never. Problem solved. Don’t like that option? Well, give it a longer time before sleep. You can go up to three hours. I’ll never understand the appeal of apps to keep a computer awake when the tools to do so are in the system already.

By: ljun

ljun — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:08:09 +0000

best “UNINSTALLER” app is Hazel. You don’t have to open it, it’s always running (sys pref pane), nice interface!

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By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:47:42 +0000

I love Apptrap! Whenever you delete an app, it simply pops up a window asking if you’d like to delete it’s associated resources.

AFAIK, it should be built into OS X. It’s brilliant!

Thing is, you don’t need to think about ‘uninstalling’ apps with this software. You simply drag it to the trash – the Mac way!

By: Steve Wozjobs

Steve Wozjobs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:13:19 +0000

The best app for cleaning the trash and getting rid of the associated files is APP ZAPPER (http://www.appzapper.com)

I’ve been using App Zapper for the past year and it’s doing wonders on my macbook pro.

Have a great day,

Steve Wozjobs

By: Lisa Hoover

Lisa Hoover — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:08:16 +0000

Hi Blaze,

Actually, I do because I review and test new software nearly every day, but don’t keep all of it :-)

Lisa

By: Blaze

Blaze — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:04:55 +0000

Do you really uninstall apps so frequently that you need an app running constantly in the background for this?

By: Robosheep

Robosheep — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:30:44 +0000

Caffeine is far better than Jiggler.
I’m going to go and say that AppCleaner is probably a better fit for my uninstalling needs also.
And as a final note, I find Growl to be more of a distraction from getting things done than useful, but I don’t think growl is about being productive in the first place.

By: Karsten

Karsten — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:25:17 +0000

two other usefull background apps: Camouflage (www.briksoftware.com/products/camouflage) to constantly hide the desktop-icons and UnPlugged (www.briksoftware.com/products/unplugged) to notify when the powerplug unpluggs, or if running on battery it notifies every couple percent of how much power is left.

Karsten

By: Elmak

Elmak — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:53:17 +0000

I used to use Jiggler, but I don’t like how it moves the mouse a little bit as a method of keeping things awake. It tends to pop up the display bar on VLC.

I prefer Caffeine. It sits in the menu bar and toggles on or off with a click- no dock space required.

http://www.lightheadsw.com/caffeine/