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RedScreen
RedScreen 2.0.1
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(2) 3.75

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RedScreen is a useful utility for night vision. It serves just one purpose: to preserve your dark adapted eyes, so you can work with your Mac in a dark environment. It does this in two ways:

1) It makes your screen red. Red affects your night vision less than other colours.

2) It can darken the screen. It does this by reducing the backlight, and also darkening the colours on screen. It can go Very dark.

RedScreen controls the video hardware directly, so it works with all applications and it restores the system to your original settings as soon as you
What's New
Version 2.0.1:
  • Redesigned interface
  • Auto-update added. The application will now check for updates regularly.
  • Many more enhancements.
Requirements
  • PPC / Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
  • Red filter and darkening should work with any screen.
  • Backlight controls require a compatible Apple LCD screen.



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RedScreen User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 2.x:
(2)
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Overall:
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burypromote
+3

+3
LandiTrance commented on 17 Mar 2010
Hello very nice app.
It does that's says .
Thank you very much .
Keep it nice job .
[Version 2.0.1]


burypromote
+2

+213
Yoshinatsu commented on 25 Feb 2010
Actually, it's red for me. It probably has to do with your display profile. I use Apple RGB, for example, and it's just fine.
[Version 1.2]

1 Reply

burypromote

+12
Mjk replied on 25 Feb 2010
Good deal. Fixed my color profile (Apple RGB looks funny on my screen for whatever reason, so I have a custom color profile) and now it's red instead of pink. I'd forgotten about that. Thanks.
burypromote

+12
Mjk commented on 25 Feb 2010
Overall not bad, though the redness is not quite red enough to be truly effective. It's more like pink. Also, would be good to have an option to automatically switch to white on black (inverted color mode) when activated. Yes, I know I can do that in the System Preferences or by holding option-control-command-8, but why not have it in here to streamline it a bit?
[Version 1.2]

1 Reply

burypromote
+1
Interealtime (developer) replied on 04 Mar 2010
I've added support for inverted colours (works nicely with the red filter too!) in the next version. It should be available in the next few days (there's just one more feature to add, and a bit more testing).

Yoshinatsu is right about the colour profile - if it's not right, the screen will look pink (or other colours in extreme cases). Worse, you'll be getting the same 'wrong colours' in all of your applications. It's worth going through the 'calibrate' option under the display prefs.
There are currently no troubleshooting comments. If you are experiencing a problem with this app, please post a comment.


+64

hugelshofer rated on 25 Oct 2011

[Version 2.0.1]



+6

Elsamiro rated on 25 Feb 2011

[Version 2.0.1]


Downloads:4,210
Version Downloads:2,603
Type:Utilities : Desktop
License:Free
Date:18 Mar 2010
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price:Free0.00
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RedScreen is a useful utility for night vision. It serves just one purpose: to preserve your dark adapted eyes, so you can work with your Mac in a dark environment. It does this in two ways:

1) It makes your screen red. Red affects your night vision less than other colours.

2) It can darken the screen. It does this by reducing the backlight, and also darkening the colours on screen. It can go Very dark.

RedScreen controls the video hardware directly, so it works with all applications and it restores the system to your original settings as soon as you close the program. It's very simple to use. Press the 'Activate' button to make your screen red. Control brightness with the 'Backlight' and 'Dimming' controls. You can turn off the red filter if you just want your screen darker.

There's a few settings to disable or replace the standard OS X screensaver (if the normal screensaver activates it can briefly disable RedScreen), and an option for greyscale (this can also improve display quality with the red filter active). RedScreen is totally free to use, but please contact us if you want to distribute it.
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