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There he was, alone in a “near-dark” romantic cafe.
His girlfriend has just called and said that she would be “a little bit” late.
He understood too well what “a little bit” meant for her.
So, armed with his MacBook, he tried to make use of the waiting time by being productive.
His eyes also started to feel sore and watery.
He tried to dim the display, but it was already at the lowest brightness level possible.
One more scale down would be total darkness.
What should he do?
Here are three alternative applications to adjust the brightness on Mac.
Brightness Controlis a small stand-alone utility with a simple interface.
Just slide the scale to the left to decrease the brightness of your display.
Closing the app will restore everything back to normal.
This app hasn’t been updated since 2006 but works fine under Leopard.
Shadesis a Preference Pane item on your Mac which adds smoother screen brightness controls than the defaults.
The developer’s site provides three kinds of installer: PowerPC, Intel, and Universal Binary.
Shades allows users to activate “Hot Keys” to control its functions using keyboard combinations.
The one hot key that should be remembered is the emergency brightness restore: Alt + Esc.
Brightnessadds a menu bar item to adjust the display’s brightness.
But since it’s pretty useful and also related to controlling
screen brightness, I included it here.
One of the ideas is to help users free the function keys that were used for brightness control.
