Theine For Mac

Mac OS X comes with built-in energy saving solutions that can help you prolong the life of your battery. At the same time, you can avoid any unnecessary power consumption.

However, putting your Mac to sleep can lead to annoying situations especially when making long presentations. Theine is a minimalist OS X app that can help you change the power management rules with a simple mouse click.

The Theine user interface is represented by a simple icon placed in your status bar. The design is featuring a cup: when empty, your Mac can go to sleep. On the other hand, if the cup is full, the computer will not enter the sleep mode even after long periods of time.

This arrangement makes sure that you can always see the currently active power management rules and change them in no time. Note that your Mac can overheat, especially during transport, so make sure to always check the icon’s status.

The Theine application does not come with any customization options, yet the icon design matches perfectly the OS X Yosemite design, both when full and when empty. Even a simple task as adding the utility to the list of login items has to be performed manually.

The good part is that Theine is released as an open-source project, which means that you can use if free of charge for as long as you like. The utility is using power assertions to change the power management settings, and runs in sandboxed mode, so it won’t place resources files in various locations.

To conclude, if you are looking for a simple solution that can help you manage your Mac’s going to sleep permissions without having to go through the System Preferences, Theine might be just what you need.