Desktop Lighter

[jason]

Late night sessions on the computer - and the glare from the monitor is blinding.

Falling asleep in bed with a winamp playlist loaded on the laptop - I couldn't find a happy medium between a a blinding light brighter than 20 suns or just turning it off.

Then quite by accident - I stumbled across "Desktop Lighter". Now I have a dimmer switch/slider for my laptop & desktop monitors.

http://www.dimxsoft.com/dlighter/

Simple. Works Perfectly. Remembers Brightness levels between reboots.

[jason]

Change display color temperature based on time of day.

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.

Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. F.lux will do the rest, automatically.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

[Anupam]

f.lux was featured on the TSA main site, some days back. I like Desktop Lighter better... personal choice though.

[jason]

Different result though - one alters brightness, one alters whiteness.

[rhiannon]

Originally Posted by jason

Late night sessions on the computer - and the glare from the monitor is blinding.

Falling asleep in bed with a winamp playlist loaded on the laptop - I couldn't find a happy medium between a a blinding light brighter than 20 suns or just turning it off.

Then quite by accident - I stumbled across "Desktop Lighter". Now I have a dimmer switch/slider for my laptop & desktop monitors.

http://www.dimxsoft.com/dlighter/

Simple. Works Perfectly. Remembers Brightness levels between reboots.

Dimmer
It dims brightness, which works for me.
f.lux didn't agree with me.

[Anupam]

Thanks for another suggestion rhiannon. I have been using Desktop Lighter for a while now... and its serving well. I have put it to autorun, and it automatically reduces the brightness on startup. Pretty helpful... and I think similar to Dimmer.

I tried f.lux, but didn't like it... makes the colors go all weird, and it feels weird too after that .

[rhiannon]

Originally Posted by Anupam

Thanks for another suggestion rhiannon. I have been using Desktop Lighter for a while now... and its serving well. I have put it to autorun, and it automatically reduces the brightness on startup. Pretty helpful... and I think similar to Dimmer.

I tried f.lux, but didn't like it... makes the colors go all weird, and it feels weird too after that .

I got the same result from f.lux. The colors on the screen looked so strange. It was one of those "that can't be right" moments while staring at the monitor.