Northern Softworks Updates Lights Out With Performance Mods

Northern Softworks has released an update for Lights Out, bringing it to version 2.1. Lights Out is an energy saver utility designed for expanding Jaguar sleep control. The update features performance enhancements and bug fixes. According to Northern Softworks:

Northern Softworks today announced the release of version 2.1 of Lights Out, its new Energy Saver utility for Jaguar.

Lights Out is an application designed to give users more control over Appleis Energy Saver. It helps solve the problem of Energy Saver insomnia. Many scanners and other peripherals interfere with the Macis normal sleeping patterns. Lights Out offers a secondary idle timer to put your Mac to sleep even when Energy Saver fails to do so. The application also offers hot corners to instantly put your Mac to sleep, or keep your Mac awake.

Whatis New in Lights Out?

  • This release offers improved performance and minor bug fixes
  • It adds limited support for powerbooks
  • It adds the ability to perform a logout after a user specified period of inactivity
  • It adds the ability to run in non administrative accounts

You can find more information about the latest Lights Out update at the Northern Softworks Web site. Lights Out 2.1 is free for registered users, while the full version is available for US$7.95.