Don't Sleep! For Mac

Don't Sleep! is an unobtrusive status bar menu application designed to help you prevent your Mac from going to sleep for certain periods of time, without having to adjust the system settings by going through the System Preferences.

All the Don't Sleep! features can be accessed via the status bar menulet, which makes the application extremely intuitive to use. The utility comes with predefined time periods (forever, 4/2/1 hours, or 30/15/5 minutes), so all you have to do is select the one you want to activate, and then press the “Don't Sleep!” entry.

Don't Sleep! will automatically start a timer when you activate the function, so you will be able to see in the status bar menu for how long will your Mac be forced to remain active. The status bar icon will be crossed by a red circle to help you see at a glance if the app is active or not.

Taking advantage of the OS X energy saver functions is highly advisable: you get to preserve the battery of your portable Mac, or you can avoid unnecessary power consumption on desktop computers. However, in certain situations you need to make sure your Mac will remain active until a certain task is done.

Don't Sleep! is a small yet efficient tool designed to help you deal with this task without having to go through the System Preferences. The best part is that you can limit the going to sleep prevention only for a certain period of time: Don't Sleep! will automatically deactivate, and the system rules will be back in place.

As a result, you do not have to remember to make the necessary adjustments when you don’t need your Mac to remain active anymore.