iLid 1.0

iLid Preference Pane is a small utility that does one thing: It lets you "flip the switch" that tells your Mac laptop not to wake up when you open the lid. Thats it.

Sometimes the laptop will wake up during the trip and when you open up your bag, youd think there was a piping-hot pizza inside and not a super-cool computer.
The reason for this is that, by default, all Mac laptops are set to wake up when the lid is opened.

While this is a very nice feature, "opened" doesnt always mean the same thing to your laptop as it does to you. Even worse, it seems to vary from laptop to laptop. Some laptops wake up when you press the latch and others when you tap the lid. And, as your laptop gets older and the latch gets flakier, the problem just gets worse and worse.

Strangely, while Apple does provide a way to prevent Mac laptops from waking up when the lid is opened, they dont provide an easy way to access it.