SleepLess - 2.6.2

This is a simple little utility that sits in the menubar and allows you to control the sleep mode in the Macbook (Pro). You can close the lid and the machine will continue to do important processing, say when you travel with it in your bag etc. I would not expect any problems with heating although of course one uses these kinds of things with own responsibility --- after all, expect there to be plenty of sensors inside your brim that checks the temperature e.g. of the processor. Also, the Macbook (Pro) indeed IS designed to run also with lid closed e.g. with an external monitor and it is just silly that Apple does not buy this piece of software and puts it into Mac OS X Snow Leopard! Anyway, well worth the symbolic fee (shareware). Try it out first, that's the idea of course.

I am using SleepLess to keep my powebook from sleeping when I close the lid because I keep a VPN running while I'm wireless and it's a pain to have to reconnect as I run around the office to meetings with my laptop after it goes to sleep every time I close the lid. I had dabbled with using insomnia before (http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/meltmac/), but I found the lack of interface clunky. SleepLess provides that interface I needed to make insomnia useful. The only problem I experienced is that the version of insomnia that came with the SleepLess package (/Applications/SleepLess.app/Contents/Resources/insomnia.kext) wouldn't load for me. I had a copy of the kext file I had previously downloaded from the insomnia site and replaced the one included with the package and everything works great now. I've only been using it for a couple of days, but no problems so far.