Brightness for Mac
- By Bergdesign
- Free
- 1.1.2
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Aiseesoft Video Enhancer for Mac
Aiseesoft Video Enhancer for Mac comes with three powerful tools, in order to enhance and edit your video files in order to make them as crisp-looking as possible. You can choose from upscaling resolution, optimizing brightness and contrast, and removing video noise, or you can choose all three. Key Features include: After effects video stabilization: fix shaky video issues and stabilize them with the stabilization tool. Rotate & flip: Aiseesoft Video Enhancer has a convenient function to rotate videos. Cut and Merge: cut a video to get a certain video clip or merge several video clips into one. Adjust video's brightness/contrast/saturation/hue/volume. Crop Video: Crop the video to get rid of the black edges so that it will suit your screen. Add Watermark: Add a text or image watermark to your video to make it personal. Using Aiseesoft Video Enhancer for Mac is very easy. To add videos simply import them via the 'Add Files' button on the main interface. Next select your enhancement options. There are three options to choose from to enhance videos. You can upscale the resolution, optimize brightness and contrast and remove video noise. Finally, click the 'Convert' button in order to begin the enhancement process. Overall, Aiseesoft Video Enhancer for Mac has some really good features and can be very useful, particularly if you have old, grainy looking video that needs cleaning up. The interface is fairly clean and well laid out; not difficult to manoeuvre around, and it's easy to use. What more could you need?
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f.lux for Mac is a really handy tool that allows you to adjust the colour temperature on your display. If you stare at a screen for too long, then the glare from the display begins to hurt your eyes. To start with, turning down your monitor's brightness may help you, but brightness is not the really issue. The colour temperature is what causes the problems. Most computer screens emit a bluish light, which looks great in daytime, but it becomes uncomfortable to look at when the sun dips below the horizon. Not only can your screen become uncomfortable to look at, it can also affect your sleep patterns.* F.lux for Mac works by calculating the approximate sunset time for your location. At sunset, your computer screen will mimic nature, gradually warming up the colours. This, in turn, blends in better with the surrounding light. The app is very easy to navigate and configure in a few clicks. the adjustments can be made with sliders across the main window, which alter the daytime and night time calibrations. If you spend a large amount of time looking at your computer screen, then f.lux is definitely something that you should check out. *There has been research which suggests reading on a tablet for a couple of hours before you go to sleep can delay your sleep pattern by approximately an hour. Looking for the Windows version of f.lux for Mac? Download Here
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