When I first got my Mac I was really annoyed with how it handles flash videos, when I played a flash video that was longer than the sleep time on my Mac it would always just go to sleep and end my video. Super annoying!

The solution, either wiggle the mouse ever now and again or install Caffeine, its is a tiny program (240 KB) that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Its really simple, you click it to prevent your Mac from ever automatically going to sleep again, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again and the default settings are resumed.

Off

On

Holding down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

The Caffeine Menu

I think this is an essential app for that does lots of downloading or streaming of flash based video, it couldn’t be any simpler and I cant think of any functionality that could usefully be added, oh and did i mention its free.

(5/5) Stars

Download it here