Free idle software for mac

IdleLed is a very small Cocoa program for MacOS X that installs a virtual LED in your system status bar. This software LED will signal your Macintosh idle/busy activity.

You can alter the basic behavior of the IdleLed.app. The slider "Precision" allows to adjust the update speed of the Led. The default value is 1 s.

Of course, the lower is the refresh interval the better the Led will reflect the real idle/busy status of your Mac. However, a short update interval will be more CPU consuming. You can also decide to invert the basic behavior of the software, having the led OFF when busy and ON when idle (or viceversa).

The Idle Interval scripting addition enables you to develop more responsive AppleScript Studio applications. It gives you precise control of the idle interval, the time interval between invocations of your idle handler.
As an AppleScript Studio developer, you may have tried using an idle handler, and wished it had a more flexible scripting interface. Currently, the only way to set the idle interval is to return a new value from the idle handler. This can cause both inefficiency and inflexibility.
For example, if your idle handler returns 60, you can not change the idle interval for the next 60 seconds. To maintain efficiency without sacrificing responsiveness, your idle handler must return a compromise value, too short for some situations and too long for others.
Also, you can not get or set the idle interval from other handlers in your own script, or from other scripts outside your application. This limits the power and flexibility of process flow control scripts.
Also, you can not set the idle interval using fractions of seconds. Some applications would benefit with an idle interval less than one second, or between one and two seconds. Other applications may need irregularly but precisely scheduled, or event-driven, invocations.
The Idle Interval scripting addition solves these problems. It provides scriptable timing options for each AppleScript Studio application: reference interval, idle interval, idle frequency, next idle interval, next idle date, notification handler, and modify permission.
Main features:
- Get and set the timing options any time, from any handler in your script, and even from scripts outside your application.
- Set the idle interval, idle frequency, and next idle interval using fractions of a second, or disable your idle handler indefinitely by setting the idle interval to zero.
- Schedule your idle handler as a one-shot timer, invoked once at an arbitrary date and time.
- Measure time intervals shorter than a second using the reference interval.
- Receive notification whenever anyone modifies the timing options.
- Restrict access to the timing options, so only you can change them.
- Load the scripting addition from inside your application, to ensure compatibility and to avoid modifying the host system.
Enhancements:
- Universal Binary built with Xcode 2.4.1.

Window Cleaner 1.8 provides an easy way to run in the background and hides applications which are open but you are not using.
Major Features:

1. Ability to choose how long an application needs to be idle before it is hidden
2. Add blocked application which will not be hidden
3. Automatic updates

Slacker is a basic no frills anti idle tool for Mac OS X. Applications like iChat will keep your status set to available and never go idle (not MSN yet!) and your computer will not go to sleep or go to a screensaver.

Various new features are planned including MSN anti idle, email operations and more!

Nap Time is a small application that allows you to enter the amount of minutes you would like to elapse before the computer goes to sleep.

For example, if you wish to encode a long QuickTime movie, you can start it before you go to sleep and have NapTime sleep the computer after a reasonable period of time has elapsed.

When running, Nap Time will attempt to block the automatic idle sleep which is specified in the Energy Saver portion of System Preferences. This feature may not work reliably, however. If the computer sleeps prematurely, just disable idle sleep in the System Preferences while you are using Nap Time.

Nap Time uses a negligible number of CPU cycles when running, and should not adversely affect any computationally intensive applications you may running simultaneously.

Display Agent By SW 1.5 provides you a functional software containing a runtime agent which periodically forces the screensaver "idle time" to 15 minutes, as a security measure. Great for Managed OS X environments where these "ByHost" preferences are not easily managed...especially when you want to offer the ability for a client to change their desktop/screensaver pictures while restricting their ability to turn off their screensaver.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later