Practical guides on staying active, protecting focus, and the strange world of the status dot.
Three ways to keep a Mac awake, and why only one of them stops Slack and Teams from marking you away. A plain comparison of the built-in caffeinate command, the Amphetamine app and a mouse jiggler.
Microsoft's free PowerToys includes a tool called Awake that keeps Windows from sleeping. Here's how it works, when it's all you need, and the one job it can't do.
Zoom sets your status to Away after a few minutes without input. Here's where that setting lives, what you can change, and what to do when you're stepping away for longer.
Share your invite link. Your friend gets their first month free, and when they start paying, you get a month free too. Here's how it works.
Your status stayed green while you were gone. Now VMJ also tells you what happened: every notification that came in, grouped by app, waiting for you when you get back.
We built Insights to answer that with real numbers instead of guesses: total hours saved, your last seven days, and how much of it you were genuinely away.
That little grey dot isn't measuring your work — it's measuring your mouse. Here's how idle detection actually works, and why it quietly shapes how you're perceived.
USB dongles, mechanical cradles, and software apps all promise the same thing. They're not equal — here's the trade-off between them.
Teams is aggressive about flipping you to Away. Here are the real options — from status tricks to keeping your machine genuinely active.
The honest answer to the question everyone asks before downloading. What's safe, what to check, and how to use one responsibly.
You can do great work and still need to walk the dog. A practical playbook for protecting your focus and your status at the same time.
Long downloads, renders, and installs get cut short when your machine sleeps. Here are the built-in settings, their limits, and the set-and-forget alternative.
Short answer: yes, when they're built right. Here's what separates a jiggler that reliably keeps your computer active from one that gets ignored.
macOS sleeps hard, especially on a MacBook. Here's how to keep your Mac active for long tasks without draining the battery or fiddling with settings.
Corporate power policies love to override your Windows sleep settings. A lightweight jiggler sidesteps that entirely. Here's how.
Hardware and software jigglers carry very different detection risks. Here's an honest breakdown of what shows up and what doesn't.
A big upload or an overnight render is the worst time for your screen to lock. Here's how to keep the session alive from start to finish.
Free jigglers are everywhere. Some are fine, some are risky, and most stop where the useful features begin. Here's how to tell them apart.