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Universal Binary! Works Great With Intel-Based Macs!
Laptops are great. You can be working on a project at the office, close the laptop to put it to sleep, pop it in a carrying case and then, when you get to the house, take it out, open it up and be working again in seconds.
Sometimes, however, the laptop will 'wake up' during the trip and when you open up your bag, you'd 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" doesn't 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 don't provide an easy way to access it.
That's where the iLid Preference Pane comes in. It only does one thing: It lets you "flip the switch" that tells your Mac laptop not to wake up when you open the lid. That's it.
So, just click here to download. Then, unzip the file, and double-click on the .dmg file and then follow the simple installation instructions in the "Read Me.rtfd" file. (Note that the iLid Preference Pane requires Mac OS X v10.4 or later.) If you like it, and decide to keep it, all we ask is that you consider making a small donation. |
