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Product Description:
Shades is a FREE utility for controlling the brightness of your screen. It runs in the background providing easy control over the brightness of your display via a slick Mac-like interface, with greater dynamic range and finer granularity than the built-in controls.
Unlike other solutions, Shades works by obscuring your screen with a darkened overlay. It doesn't change your display settings and won't screw up your colour profile. It also means you won't lose your cursor!
What's new in this version:
- Tooltips, iTunes visualiser, screensavers, Firefox contextual menus, etc no longer appear at full brightness when running Shades.
- White overlay now correctly appears over menu when first launching Shades with brightness set low.
- Failure to respond to clicks when menu icon is first used after launch has been eliminated.
- Vertical white line that sometimes appeared at top-left corner of screen has been eliminated.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS 10.3 or higher
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Download Shades Version 1.1.2 (File Size: 4.8M)
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Download Shades Current Version (File Size: 6.0M)
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | Not rated (0.0) | Price: | (5.0) |
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Snow Leopard support - Version: 1.2b2, 9/5/2009 06:21AM PST
provkitir
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- Snow Leopard support
Thank you, thank you, thank you! - Version: 1.2b2, 8/10/2009 09:38PM PST
red_ridinghood
wonderful!!! - Version: 1.2b2, 4/4/2009 04:10PM PST
apple--guy
my new 24" imac was burning my eyes out until i found this great app. my new 24" imac is so ridiculously bright, and the normal brightness control in display system prefs only dims the display to what i would call a normal brightness. it was unbearable working at night with the room lights dimmed.
btw, thanks to the reviewers about screen calibration. i will check into this, although, after turning on shades my calibration looks perfect to my naked eye.
Shades is one of the best applications I have downloaded for my iMac. It works perfectly until I upgraded to snow leopard. After the upgrade, the Shades Preferences became unresponsive and the shades program cannot be shut off and restarted, also, the brightness bar on the menu cannot be tuned and it is stuck at the level of brightness prior to the upgrade.
I'm not sure if others are having the same issues, thanks again for this great product!
Tom