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During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun. Say
by nickb 18y ago
During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.
Say what? Look like the sun? CFL or LEDs are just white light sources. Most of them are not even full spectrum and they're not mean to 'look like the sun' at all.
All this program did was cast a yellow/pink overcast over my screen. If you're doing some graphics work, this is useless.
If you're on a Mac and your eyes feel tired from a lot of light late in the evening, give this a try: http://docs.blacktree.com/nocturne/nocturne http://docs.blacktree.com/nocturne/nocturne
- nazgulnarsil 18y agodoes an app of this sort exist for windows? I have done this to my computer manually but a simple theme would be cool.
- sh1mmer 18y agoNocturne uses a feature of Mac OSX to help with the screen inversion. It might be possible on windows but I've not seen it. You can actually screen invert on Macs without Nocturne using the universal access (accessibility ) preferences, but Nocturne smooths out the rough edges. Accessibility preferences on windows might also have this feature.
- tdavis 18y agoI hate to nitpick, but they are in fact meant to "look like the sun" due to the fact that most monitors generally run at a color temperature of 5500K which is (approximately) the same color temperature of sunlight. When set to a "night" setting it isn't creating an "overcast", it is merely changing the color temperature of the monitor to something more in line with moonlight (4100K) or lamp (3400K) light sources, something you could do manually by adjusting your monitor settings.