ScreenShade is a tool for further dimming a screen (or screens) past the capabilities of the OS X brightness display settings. This utility is especially useful for people who find themselves using their computer in a low-lighting situation.
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What's New
Version 1.3:
New: Added a welcome screen and mini tutorial
Fix: Tweaked automatic update reporting to not always open the release notes URL
Fix: The option-plus and option-minus hotkeys are no longer backwards
Fix: ScreenShade no longer starts at 100% dark on the first launch
Still failing to launch on login. Tried deleting prefs, repairing permissions, even redownloading the app and installing on a fresh copy of the OS. A lot times just opening the prefs takes a minute of two of spinning beachballness. While I like the features and love the app when it works, it doesn't work as it should often enough to warrant more than 3 stars.
I really like this app, more than Brightness even. My only complaints are that there's no keyboard command for toggling ScreenShad, which means you have to hit opt-plus/minus multiple times, and quite often the program does not launch automatically at login despite repeated attempts to troubleshoot the issue. For some reason the option becomes deselected on its own.
Thanks for a very useful program. It has made my new Mac much more joyful to use. My first question is why does the installed program create a alias to the applications folder and can this alias folder be deleted? Second, is it possible to have the option +/- change the shade in a finer increment or to make the size of the "steps" set by the user? And lastly, I notice that when playing the apple chess program, the pieces do not appear to move when screenshade app is running. Toggling screenshade on and off does not provide the same effect as quiting screenshade.
[Version 1.3]
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ScreenShade is a tool for further dimming a screen (or screens) past the capabilities of the OS X brightness display settings. This utility is especially useful for people who find themselves using their computer in a low-lighting situation.
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Kris-K. reviewed on 29 Sep 2011
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a dude reviewed on 02 Sep 2009
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a dude reviewed on 10 May 2009
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gmattie reviewed on 24 Apr 2009
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I guess it's "Shades" for me!
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gcoghill reviewed on 01 Nov 2008
Showells rated on 22 Aug 2011