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`Caffeine` App Gets Its Indicator Back With New 2.8 Release

| Date: January 16, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: appindicator, caffeine, linux, screensaver, ubuntu

Caffeine is a tool used to temporarily prevent the activation of the screensaver / lock screen / sleep mode when using full-screen windows. The application is useful when using video players that don't do this automatically, when listening to music while not using the computer, etc.

With the 2.7.x release, Caffeine stopped using an Ubuntu AppIndicator, a feature that many considered essential, resulting in various forks being developed. 

Caffeine indicator

Well, there's no need for that any more because the latest Caffeine 2.8, released today, brings back the Ubuntu AppIndicator, which allows to inhibit the desktop idleness manually. You can continue to use Caffeine without an indicator: simply launch "Caffeine" from the menu / Dash. If you want to use the indicator, launch "Caffeine Indicator" instead:

Screensaver / Lock Screen Inhibitor `Caffeine Plus` Brings Back The Screensaver Toggle Option

| Date: August 20, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: appindicator, caffeine, linux, screensaver, tips n tricks, ubuntu

Caffeine is a tool used to temporarily prevent the activation of the screensaver / lock screen / sleep mode when using full-screen windows. The application is useful when using video players that don't do this automatically, when listening to music while not using the computer, etc.

Caffeine Plus AppIndicator

The latest Caffeine version (2.7.x), released back in May, no longer comes with an Ubuntu AppIndicator so you can't manually toggle it on/off any more, feature which was considered pretty important by many of its users. If you're one of them, you can now use Caffeine Plus, a Caffeine 2.7 fork which restores the Ubuntu AppIndicator icon, allowing you to manually toggle it on/off.

Caffeine 1.0 For Linux Released

| Date: October 21, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: applet, caffeine, gnome, linux, screensaver, software, ubuntu

Caffeine is a Gnome applet which basically prevents your computer's screensaver and power saving to activate. The applet works simple but effective: a coffee-cup will be displayed and when you click it, the coffee-cup fills up and keeps your computer from going to sleep.

Caffeine in activated state


Caffeine in deactivated state

Compare Search Results Between Google and Caffeine, Side-By-Side

| Date: August 20, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: caffeine, google, search, web

Google is in the process of implementing some very major changes to their search algorithms and this can therefore alter the existing rankings of your web pages in Google Search results of the future.

For instance, if one of your web pages is currently ranked in Google at #3 for the phrase "wallpapers", it’s quite possible that the position may shift either ways after the new version of Google goes live.

Google has created a preview site (Caffeine) where you can play around with the upcoming changes before these get pushed to the main google.com website. And that is expected to happen in the next few weeks itself.

google search side-by-side caffeine

If you like to compare the existing Google ranks of your web pages with that of the future, check out Compare Google - this tools places the top 20 results from the old and new search engine side by side so you can easily figure out how your site will perform in the future.

Another Google comparison tool is located at Cartercole.com which, unlike Compare Google, displays Google search results in their original form - this is perfect for queries that trigger Google Universal Search so you can know what images and video clips results will get displayed in Google Caffeine for your queries.
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