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- Blackout has been discontinued
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Developer
BravoBug Software
Blackout is a unique screen-dimming and focus aide which helps you concentrate on your work - while saving your eyesight. Blackout provides instant screen dimming without affecting your hardware or gamma settings.
Blackout also provides unique 'Spotlight' and 'Soft Edges' modes: use the Spotlight mode to have a circle of light follow your cursor, or stay fixed on an important area of your screen. Use the Soft Edges mode to subtly dim the corners of your Mac's monitor, helping you stay concentrated on what counts
Blackout also provides unique 'Spotlight' and 'Soft Edges' modes: use the Spotlight mode to have a circle of light follow your cursor, or stay fixed on an important area of your screen. Use the Soft Edges mode to subtly dim the corners of your Mac's monitor, helping you stay concentrated on what counts
What's New
Version 3.3.1:
- new system status menu buttons and controls
- an improved help menu
- a better keyboard shortcut recorder
- improved dual display controls
- a new app icon
Blackout User Discussion (Write a Review)
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Blackout is a unique screen-dimming and focus aide which helps you concentrate on your work - while saving your eyesight. Blackout provides instant screen dimming without affecting your hardware or gamma settings.
Blackout also provides unique 'Spotlight' and 'Soft Edges' modes: use the Spotlight mode to have a circle of light follow your cursor, or stay fixed on an important area of your screen. Use the Soft Edges mode to subtly dim the corners of your Mac's monitor, helping you stay concentrated on what counts
Blackout also provides unique 'Spotlight' and 'Soft Edges' modes: use the Spotlight mode to have a circle of light follow your cursor, or stay fixed on an important area of your screen. Use the Soft Edges mode to subtly dim the corners of your Mac's monitor, helping you stay concentrated on what counts
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Emrys0821 reviewed on 17 Jan 2011
MacUpdate should have a field for discontinued apps.
I'm sorry to read at the developer's site, that he has moved on to other projects. Blackout still is (until it breaks with an OS update), one of my favorite utilities.
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Musubana reviewed on 03 Apr 2010
What a relief to my eyes. What a great concentration helper!
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Ffass reviewed on 19 Feb 2010
there's an option to set a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the brightness without quitting Blackout, so that's good. Pretty much addresses my issues in another way, so I'll this 4 stars.
Hey MacUpdate: allow reviewers to revise their posted reviews!
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Ffass reviewed on 19 Feb 2010
1) MINIMUM BRIGHTNESS SETTING. Nothing worse than accidently sliding a brightness setting to the mininim setting (which is 100% black) and then releasing the slider. Do that and your only option may be to invoke "Force Quit" and then blindly quit your running apps one-by-one 'til Blackout is quit. The minimum brightness setting should be selectable in the preferences settings.
2) MAXIMUM BRIGHTNESS SETTING. Currently the maximum brightness setting is something like 85% or so. This means that you have to quit Blackout if you momentarily need to have full screen brightness. The maximum brightness setting should be "OFF", or full brightness.
Also, though not essential it would be nice to have user-defined keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease brightness.
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st8181 reviewed on 05 Sep 2009
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