Brightness Control
Sat, 8 September 2007
For some reason the brightness control on the new silver iMacs won’t let you dim your screen beyond certain point. While this is OK during the daytime, I find myself quite annoyed sometimes when using my computer late at night, when the only light in the room is a small table lamp. I’d like to reduce the screen brightness even further, but it doesn’t work.
I just came across this handy little application conveniently called Brightness Control, and it does exactly what I need, it lets me reduce the brightness of my screen even further.
Another thing that I love about it is that it adjusts the low light gamma of your screen. When I reduce the screen brightness on my iMac to the minimum, the contrast and the colours become somewhat pale and not so vibrant, when comparing to those at the higher brightness level. However Brightness Control takes care of this automatically and the contrasts and colours are still OK even when the brightness is all the way down to the wee hour levels.
Interested? Then go to the Splasm Software website and download the Brightness Control, it’s free.
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Kevin Donahue said: Sun, 16 September 2007 at 08:54
Thanks for this. I also use NOCTURNAL for late night use - does a great job of compensating in lights out or little light situations.
paris said: Fri, 26 October 2007 at 05:26
that is an awesome trick. thanks for finding it for us…. it’s not going to crash our macs and install spyware somewhere, is it?
amanita said: Sat, 17 November 2007 at 09:32
What can I do? My screen is black, I forgot to hit esc. and restarted iMac. Now I can´t see anything and I can´t do anything!!! What shall I do?? Please help! I write this on my MB.
Thanks!
Amanita
amanita said: Sun, 18 November 2007 at 00:02
Next day: iMac was open all night and in the morning: I coul seethe Screensaver and when I moved the Mouse, everything was OK!!! ??
Amanita
dj said: Thu, 29 November 2007 at 08:01
What is NOCTURNAL & where can I get it?
This works well, but doesn’t allow you to use screen calibrations. Unless anyone knows a work around?