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Keeping Your Screen Awake

I have used the following programs to keep my screen awake on my computer.

For Mac OS:

  • Amphetamine. This replaced Caffeine for me as my de facto keep-awake utility. This will do the simple “keep on” that you may need. Also supports time-based sessions, keeping the screen awake when certain programs are active, and various other triggers. I have not experimented enough with triggers to have an opinion on them yet, but they look very powerful.
  • I used to use Caffeine. This is a simpler version of Amphetamine. Works great. This specific version isn’t available in the App Store, but there is one there with the same name (I haven’t used that one).