Long-time Mac users probably have different solutions for this problem, but as a newbie, the screen going dim after a certain period of time - without an intuitive way to switch this off - drove me crazy! I wanted to enjoy my slideshow, video, presentation, reading something etc. and suddenly it all went dark. Arggghhh.

So I was delighted when I found

Caffeine, a super-light program sitting in your menu bar that prevents your Mac from going to sleep/starting screen savers.

Note that Caffeine doesn’t help if you close the lid - if you want your Mac to stay awake in this case, InsomniaX is your thing - it disables the sleep when closing the lid so you can listen to music/control your Mac with the remote etc.

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