Usage

Caffeine puts a coffee cup icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click the cup to toggle whether Caffeine is active or not -- a full cup means Caffeine will prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. An empty cup means your Mac will sleep normally.

For more control, right-click (or ⌘-click) the icon to show the menu. From here, you can access the preferences window or set a timeout if you only need Caffeine to prevent sleep for a little while.

Caffeine dropdown menu showing duration options

Caffeine preferences window with startup and timer settings

Caffeine is intended to be simple, yet powerful. Options you can configure include whether to start Caffeine automatically every time you start up your Mac, whether Caffeine should activate every time it starts, and a default duration if you always want Caffeine to turn itself off after a set time.

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Chesscom proxy sites are a cat-and-mouse game. As soon as one proxy domain gets blacklisted, three more pop up. For the casual player stuck behind a firewall, tools like CroxyProxy or the Google Translate trick offer a lifeline to the 64 squares.

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Proxy sites act as intermediaries between your device and the internet. When you use a proxy site to access a website, your request goes through the proxy server, which then forwards your request to the target website. This can help mask your IP address, as the website sees the proxy server's IP address instead of yours.

A proxy site acts as an intermediary between your device and the Chess.com servers. Instead of connecting directly to the restricted chess platform, you connect to the proxy server, which then fetches the content from Chess.com for you. chesscom proxy sites

Nothing is more frustrating than having a winning endgame, only to have the proxy disconnect. Free proxies are notoriously unreliable, leading to frequent "Game abandoned" losses and rating drops.

Chess.com relies heavily on WebSockets and complex JavaScript to sync live board states between players. Most free web proxies fail to translate these scripts properly. You may load the homepage, but the live play interface will often crash, freeze, or fail to pair you with an opponent. 3. Account Security Threats Chesscom proxy sites are a cat-and-mouse game

School firewalls often block URLs containing keywords like "game" or "chess." Proxy sites hide the destination URL behind a harmless-looking domain, fooling the firewall into allowing access.

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Support

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Source Code

Caffeine is open source software. It's licensed under MIT license and the source code is available on Github.

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