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InsomniaX

It always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on a Apple Laptop. Created by Semaja2

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Mac
Discontinued

It always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on a Apple Laptop. Who does not want to use it as a big juke-box or go warwalking. The best looking server ever, especially at about one inch height. This small utility is what you will want, this small utility acts as a wrapper to the Insomnia kernel extension.

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Discontinued caffeine prevent-screensaver prevent-sleep-mode sleep-mode system-tray-program

InsomniaX was added by XaRuS in May 2009 and the latest update was made in Feb 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jan 2019 There is a history of all activites on InsomniaX in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on InsomniaX or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

InsomniaX is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The software is discontinued from July 2017 http://semaja2.net/2017/06/thank-you-and-farewell-for-now/

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Comment by jamessezhi

about InsomniaX · Jan 2015 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Works on Yosemite - Appears to be better than Nosleep and Caffeine..

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