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Dim everything but the active window
Authored by: bdhond on May 01, '03 12:36:31PM

After one look at what this program does I was sold on it.
And processor use is minimal (0% in ProcesViewer) if you put the update time to, say, 0.1 seconds. At 0 seconds, the default, processor use soon was up to 30 percent on my 800 Mhz iBook.

I was also curious to see whether dimming half the screen area would increase battery time. But I don't see it making any difference to the 'time remaining' item of the battery menu so far




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Dim everything but the active window
Authored by: sebastienb on May 01, '03 12:44:33PM

This isn't the same as dimming the screen. Dimming the screen actually lowers the backlight of the LCD; this program only 'dims' the other apps by changing its windows brightness.



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