Tag Results For: sleep

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InsomniaX: Disable Sleep On Idle Or Lid Close While On Battery Or AC [Mac]

MacBooks, like all other laptops, go to sleep when their lids are closed. The benefits of this simple function are multiple; you can close the lid and leave your MacBook with the assurance that it will be locked, and should you have forgotten to power it off, the power consumption will be minimized. That, nevertheless, doesn’t [...] (more…)

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Sleep Timer: Automatic Shutdown With Countdown, Inactivity & Time Modes

A lot of times, we have to leave our computer on overnight for a download or file transfer to finish. You can let your computer run if you are sure to be around it when the download or process completes, but a lot of times, we have to go out or go to sleep and [...] (more…)

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KeepAliveHD: Prevent External Drives From Going Into Auto Sleep Mode

Some external hard drives go into sleep mode after a period of inactivity (which is usually 10 minutes). While this option can be prevented by going to Advanced Power Options in Windows and disabling the hard disk sleep feature, a better alternative can be to customize the sleep mechanism of an external drive. For instance, [...] (more…)

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PleaseSleep Forces Your Mac To Sleep When Certain Apps Keep It Awake

You must have noticed that Mac OS X turns its screen off after 5-10 minutes of inactivity. Although the previously reviewed Caffeine allows keeping Mac OS X awake as long as you want, sometimes you may want Mac OS X to automatically go to sleep without noticing those processes and applications which attempt to forcibly [...] (more…)

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Use Caffeine To Keep Your iPhone Or iPad Awake For As Long As You Want

Don’t you just hate it when in the middle of watching a video or playing a gyro-based game on your device, the screen turns itself off and goes to sleep? When you are wide awake and having fun, your screen should cooperate, right? Life would have been much easier if you could have given your [...] (more…)

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NoSleep Wakes Up Your System And Hibernate It At Defined Time [Mac]

Are you planning to download or transfer heavy files till the better part of the night? Before you begin, you need to make sure that your Mac will not go into hibernation state. To achieve this, you can use previously covered Caffeine, but if you want an application which can provide both functionalities – preventing Mac [...] (more…)

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Prevent Your Mac From Going To Sleep With Caffeine

Often it attempts with everyone that our Mac will suddenly go to sleep or start a screensaver when we’d left it unattended for the set time period. Most of the times, this happens when a user is installing some software, or waiting for a download to complete, or such similar scenarios that require patience on [...] (more…)

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How To Stop Your External Hard Disk From Going Into Sleep Mode

Some external hard disks automatically go into sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity. This is definitely not the case with my latest Western Digital 3200ME external hard disk, but it does happen with majority of other external hard disks made by various manufacturers. Going automatically into sleep mode is a bit absurd, and [...] (more…)

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How To Change The Action Of Windows 7/Vista Power Button

By default, when you click the Power button in the Start menu, it goes into Sleep mode. To turn off your Windows Vista system, you’ll have to click the arrow (next to the Power button), and select Shut Down in the drop-down list. If you find it tedious, you can change the Power button action [...] (more…)