Category: desktop

How to get the best screen dimmer for Windows 10? Well, the best screen dimmer concept is already available as a Browser extension. And on the Mac, with the launch of the ‘Turn Off the Lights for Desktop’ for Mac computers.
Today we have great news for Windows 10 users! It is now possible to automatically protect your eyes late at night with the ‘Turn Off the Lights for Desktop’ Windows 10 App. When you installed the new app on your computer, you will see that it adds a white lamp button left on your clock. And just like in the browser extension, you can activate the black transparent layer with one single click or finger tap.

Screen dimmer for Windows 10 Desktop App

It’s the only and most advanced eye protection app in the Windows Store. That is all with the white lamp button in your taskbar. You can download the screen dimmer for Windows 10 Desktop app now on the Windows Store. The minimum requirement to install this new Windows Store app is Windows 10 anniversary 1607.

What can I adapt to this app?

It is more than just a regular white lamp button. Here is a brief overview of what you can adapt in the settings window:

• Change the opacity value;
• Show the solid color as the background (or your own chosen yellow light filter);
• Or choose your own Image background;
• Or use a video background as a dark layer when you click on the white lamp button;
• Customize the keyboard shortcuts, for lights on/off and increase/decrease the opacity value;
• Start automatically up the app when you start up your computer;
• Option to show a spotlight around your mouse cursor;
• Option to show the fade effects when activating the dark layer;
• Advanced Eye Protection schedule, this is to schedule when you want the lights off at night example at 11 pm on Friday and on the weekend at 9 pm;
• Highlight the currently opened program on top of the dark layer, such as the video player app.

The ‘Turn Off the Lights for Desktop’ Windows app is a free update for existing users. Previous users will get a coupon in their email box to download this new version for their Windows 10 computers. That has this easy and useful experience to dim the screen on top of all your open window applications. And to customize the dark layer to your favorite dark tint with more or less transparency.

The coupon is expired after 1 year automatically to get the latest Screen dimmer for Windows 10 update from the Microsoft Windows Store. (promo action is ended) If you need any assistance or help on how to use or setup up this screen dimmer you can contact us at Turn Off the Lights Support.

Turn Off the Lights for Desktop is one of the most customizable and advanced Mac app ever. That you can use to dims your whole screen. And today we are excited to update this experience even further. As a result, we added few easy control buttons in your Touch Bar (for Macbook Pro 13 inch and Macbook 15 inch late 2016 model), so you can easily dim your screen with one tap, change the opacity, and even change the color of this dark layer.

Touch Bar

You get the best experience on your fingertips, move the slider to left or right to get a comfortable feeling for your eyes. Furthermore, you can change the color of this dark layer live with a finger tap on your Touch Bar.

Notification Center Widget

You as a user can swipe with your two fingers and tap to change quickly the opacity value. This  Notification Center widget is movable in your sidebar. Move to the left, to decrease to opacity value of the dark layer and vice versa.

Translation Update

We updated also support for the following language Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Slovenian, Swedish and Romanian.

It is a free update, for all the Mac users who installed the Turn Off the Lights for Desktop Mac app. The Mac app is available for macOS Sierra. If you have any questions or need help, you can ask it on our support page.

A year ago we started secretly on a new project that answer to the question of many of our users said to us, in the Chrome Web Store extension review page and in our contact form. And that is to dim your whole screen with a single click on the lamp button.

We happy to announce that Turn Off the Lights for Desktop is available today in the Mac App store. It’s a new and unique app in the store, that allow you to dim your whole desktop from the top all the way down to the bottom. With more than thousand of options inside to customize the app to your look that make you feel comfortable. Turn Off the Lights for Desktop is compatible with MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro.

Turn Off the Lights for Desktop have more advanced features you have never seen before in an App. So we are going to highlight only three important features in this blog post.

Video Layer

You as user can change the color of the layer in the preference window to blue, green, red, orange, pink, yellow etc. And there is an option to show a video when you do the lights off. It’s sound crazy, but you can watch a full movie and type together your text document.

Also, we add the know Mouse Actions feature from the browser extension in this app, such as the spotlight around the cursor. And an option to cut the YouTube (and other video platforms) player out of the dark layer.

Focus the application you want

With this option enabled, each window you click will be on the top of the black layer. For example, if you click on the QuickTime player, everything around will be black.

Advanced Eye Protection Schedule

One of the feature that this application makes so unique is the advanced Eye Protection schedule. Here you can set witch day and time the lights must go on or off.

Turn Off the Lights browser extension is loved and used by millions of users worldwide already. Try Turn Off the Lights for Desktop today! If you have feedback for us, please don’t hesitate to contact us using Twitter, Facebook, or on our support page.