Take Back Control of Screen Brightness: 40% off this weekend

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Take Back Control of Screen Brightness: 40% off this weekend - Published on 11/28/14

California based indie developer, Alaric Cole announces Brightness Widget 1.4, an update to his screen utility for Mac OS X. Brightness Widget gives you finer control over the brightness of your Mac. Adjust the brightness of your display easily, and beyond normal limits. Brightness Widget lets you quickly change your monitor's brightness from Notification Center's Today view. Or, use the classic menu item that works just like the volume control slider you're familiar with.

San Francisco, California - Indie developer, Alaric Cole is pleased to announce the release of Brightness Widget 1.4, an update to his screen utility for Mac OS X. Are you working late, even on the holidays? Do you often find your screen is too bright, late at night? Take control over it, reducing brightness even further. And, get better sleep by not screwing around with your body's natural impulses.

Brightness Widget gives you finer control over the brightness of your Mac. Adjust the brightness of your display easily, and beyond normal limits. Brightness Widget lets you quickly change your monitor's brightness from Notification Center's Today view. Or, use the classic menu item that works just like the volume control slider you're familiar with.

200% Darker than the default is even possible - great for working Late. The app can also compensate for the blue tint of displays, improving Sleep by not messing with our bodies' natural circadian rhythm. It simply warms the colors, shifting to a more red spectrum once you set the brightness to a certain threshold.

Note: Other Apps Waste Your Battery And Can Damage Your Screen:
This app lets you adjust your monitor's brightness in the normal range like you can do with your keyboard's brightness controls, but can also dim the screen to almost completely black. Access the settings at any time by clicking the gear icon. The app works just like the Volume control slider you may use in your status bar. This makes it accessible at any time, non-intrusive, and lightweight. In fact, it's one of those apps that works like it should have been shipped with the OS.

Why Brightness Is The Best:
We're the first and only with a widget, but that's not all. There are many imitations on the App Store now that use the vertical slider UI, but Brightness was the first, and is still the best. Feel free to try them, and you'll see they don't match up. One big problem is they don't adjust for the native brightness first. Instead, they change the gamma or apply an overlay shade only. This means They Are Wasting Energy and are causing unnecessary wear and tear on your displays! This app first lets you adjust the native brightness of the display, then through the lower half of the slider you can continue lowering the brightness via our system-wide reduction algorithm.

Version 1.4 introduces a new Brightness widget, right in the Today view of Notification Center, ready for Yosemite. The app also features a cleaner design to match Yosemite's new look.

System Requirements:
* OS X 10.10 or later (OS X Yosemite and above)
* 64-bit processor
* 1.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
For a limited time, Brightness Widget 1.4 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Utilities category.

Brightness Widget 1.4: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brightness-widget/id424164948?ls=1&mt=12
Screenshot 1: https://s3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple1/v4/c6/75/60/c6756040-7099-7ed8-ee7e-abd90fcd604d/mzl.iesrnvui.png?downloadKey=1417542414_737ae931daaa0b057009d7c3ee7e2117
Screenshot 2: https://s5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple3/v4/ed/a4/c2/eda4c24e-30f7-0e2d-70ef-7f6e45a34bf4/pr_source.jpg?downloadKey=1417542414_a8cf1e992ea3999268c8e38b70158232
Application Icon: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple1/v4/7c/91/47/7c914785-4ac7-99ae-eb46-aef1e4088272/icon512.png


Alaric Cole has been developing indie apps in San Francisco since 2008. He's even had a few hits in health, photo and video, utilities, and entertainment. Copyright (C) 2014 Alaric Cole. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac OS X and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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