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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Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, one function I’ve missed is the ability to toggle the Keyboard Viewer on and off with an applescript.
It looks like Apple modified the Keyboard Viewer utility for Mac OS X 10.6 (or a possible tablet, who knows…) and the old applescripts don’t work.

I’ve finally come across a method for getting this to work in Snow Leopard again, although it’s not as easy as it was in Leopard, and it seems to be as slow as hell to open.
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There’s a fix for working on Snow Leopard, just read on MacDuff. Thanks to David and Januz for this!

Recently, I’ve been looking for a script to toggle my screen-saver password for my MacBook.
While out and about I want to make sure my Mac is safe from stray fingers by making sure a password is required before waking, but when at home or in university there’s no need for this extra layer of protection.

Searching the web I found absolutely nothing, except a few scripts that were old and broken.
The only solution; I decided to write my own. You can download the applescript here in zip form (10.6 – Snow Leopard compatible version here), or view the script in your browser here (10.6 – Snow Leopard compatible version here). (Warning – it’s not the easiest thing to read!)

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