It can auto-deactivate itself when your Mac’s battery drops below a set threshold and re-activate when you connect the Mac to power. Amphetamine can automatically kick in upon yours connecting to a specific Wi-Fi network and will keep your hard drives and solid state storage awake, too. You have numerous activation time presets at your disposal and can create your own, too. For instance, Amphetamine features system-wide hotkey support and supports scheduled activation and deactivation for specific times of the day. It basically does everything Caffeine does, and then some more.

Oh, and if you’re unhappy with its menu bar icon, you can use your own custom icons for Amphetamine’s menu bar images. Amphetamine, a full-on Caffeine replacementĬreated by William Gustafson, Amphetamine supports high-resolution Retina displays, looks good in Yosemite’s dark mode and features a bunch of options to customize it to your liking. That said, I want to share with you a pair of apps that one-up Caffeine at its own game. Its icon, for example, is not Retina-compatible and looks odd in Yosemite’s dark mode. Yesterday, my colleague Anthony ran an informative tutorial that does a good job covering two ways to keep your Mac from sleeping, dimming or showing a screensaver: one is based on a little bit of Terminal magic and the other involves using a free of charge utility, called Caffeine.Īs easy to use as Caffeine is, it suffers from not having been updated in years so it has some issues with OS X Yosemite and El Capitan.

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