Caffeine is a tiny little app that keeps your Mac awake when needed; be it when you’re watching a video (for some reason, Adobe Flash doesn’t keep your Mac awake), reading something off your screen, or anything else.

It sits in the menu bar waiting to be summoned when needed, and dismissed just as easily.

Being the lazy type I am (thanks to the inevitable Quicksilver), dragging the mouse over to click the icon is just too much work. Below is an applescript which I run from Quicksilver with 3 key presses (I could set it as a trigger if I really wanted) and it switches it on or off, or even opens it if it’s not running.
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Listening to music whenever at my Mac, I’ve come to realise iTunes shuffle doesn’t actually shuffle as you might expect.
That is, it’s not completely random. Tracks are selected based on skip count and play count.
If you’ve skipped a track a few times, it’s less likely to be played in shuffle mode than those with a higher play count.

Now, in need of some kind of method to make sure ALL of my tracks get played (I had some un-played from over a year ago because of iTunes’ lack of shuffling) I set up my own custom smart playlist to sit alongside the ‘Recently Played’ playlist.

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