After much delay, the Caffeine developers are pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Caffeine, an applet that disables the sleep and power saving modes of your Linux system. Version 1.0 adds one major feature: Automatically activate for user specified programs Some applications like games, fullscreen or not, take mouse and keyboard input but don’t prevent the screen-saving and sleep modes. Instead of having to click on the icon before playing games, Caffeine 1.0 automatically activates for any process you want. Read more

UPDATE: Caffeine 1.0 is out, read the details.

The Caffeine developers (Brad Smith, Tommy Brunn, and me) are pleased to announce the 0.3 release of Caffeine, the program that sits in your notification area allowing you to quickly and temporarily prevent your computer from screen saving or “sleeping”. Several important features that are new to 0.3, Read more