Lights Out is an application designed to give users more control over Apple's Energy Saver. It helps solve the problem of Energy Saver insomnia. Many software packages, scanners, and other peripherals interfere with the Mac's normal sleeping patterns. Lights Out offers a secondary idle timer to put your Mac to sleep even when Energy Saver fails to do so.
The application also offers hot corners to instantly put your Mac to sleep, or keep your Mac awake. Lights Out includes the ability to customize Energy Saver settings for individual applications. When configured, sleep settings are automatically adjusted depending on the active application.
This can be useful for long downloads, iTunes streams, cd or dvd playback, etc. Lights Out offers easy control of Energy Saver. Lights Out can even logout or shutdown your Macintosh after a specified idle period.
Features:
· User configurable idle times for dimming the screen, spinning down disks, and CPU sleep
· Customize Energy Saver settings for individual applications
· User configurable idle time for logout
· User configurable idle time for system shut down
· User definable hot spots for CPU sleep and never sleep
· Easily switch sleep on and off
· Application based for easy installation and stability
· Simple to configure and use
· Illustrated Documentation
