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Since I got another laptop (netbook actually) I spend less time with my mac, but I still need it up and running 24/7.And when I am far away from it I have to close the lid (my cat has some stupid ideas from time to time). Of course when I close the lid MBP goes to sleep, and you can’t change that. It is pretty anoying that Apple didn’t build into the system any tool to disable that feature. Even Windows has it!

But , as always, there is a way to fix the problem. There is a speciall app to prevent your MacBook from sleeping. It is called InsomniaX.

I have my MacBook up and running 24/7. Usually, when I am away from it I turn off the display, but I am not closing the lid. I also enabled automatic display dimming when computer is not used for 2 minutes. I know it is a short time, but those settings work great for me. Unfortunatelly sometimes when I read for example a long artice auto-dimming display is a bit inconvinient. So I tried to solve my problem in other way than constantly changing settings.

And then I found a small app called Caffeine. It prevents your Mac from dimming display. It is really useful, when you watch youtube or megavideo. It sits in menubar. You can accitwate it by clicking on the icon.

I love HTC interface. It is very elegant and efficient. And I decided to make something similar to it on my desk .

And here it is:

Finally, after a month Gameloft updated one of theirs best game ports for iPhone: The Settlers. Previous version had problems with the last mission in every campaign (in my case game simply crashed when I defeated one of the oponnents).

Now game is 3MB heavier (229.0MB in total) …and for now we don’t know what’s new.

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8.02.2010
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After a couple hours of gameplay I can truly say: they made it! There are no bugs in the game now. I only have one problem now: how to end mayans campaign (it is not as easy as romans).

I was finally able to finish the last mission in Romans campaign

My desk for the rest of the year.  This time I chose a simple wallpaper with some info from GeekTool 3.