Should I Sleep is a very innovative system utility that can prevent your Mac from going to sleep using a variety of sensors. Most of the times, your Mac going to sleep is not an issue, but it can be when you are doing important things like transferring a file, or when your computer is doing work for you.
The application comes with one free sensor, and you can purchase additional ones from the "Sensor Catalogs" screen, which uses In-App Purchases. The included sensor is called "Face detection". It uses your Mac's camera to take a series of pictures. The app looks for the features of a face: mouth, nose, eyes, etc. If it finds a face, it then prevents your Mac from going to sleep. There is a bar that you can adjust in the Preferences window that will determine how many pictures are taken by the app to scan for a face. The more pictures it takes, the more accurate the sensor will be, but it will use more CPU power and memory.
The other sensors include a camera motion sensor, a download monitor, an external display sensor, and a sound activity sensor. Each sensor costs $1.99, or you can purchase them all for $4.99 with free updates for any new sensors that are to be released in the future.
v1.8 [Mar 28, 2013]
- Added: Customizable time periods
- Added: Prevent by Time with display dimmed
- Added: Uncheck timer menu to restore sensors
- Added: Background detection after shift-ctrl-eject
- Added: Ability to hide menu items
- Added: Option to disable animations
- Added: Notification and Energy Saver quick access
- Added: Basic help instructions on the side bar
- Fixed: Occasional crash after expired timer
- Changed: New on/off button style
- Changed: Preferences text revised
- Changed: Improved preferences UI
Coming up next: Profile Manager (a way to group sensors and settings)
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