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.

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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.