Nocturne: "night vision mode" for your Mac

To reiterate one of the earlier questions.....does this save battery life?

Of course I had to try it to see what it looked like to actually tint the monochrome inversion instead of the standard screen inversion. One thing I noticed is that text didn't look as good when I first switched Nacturne on. It could be because subpixel antialiasing only works when the image will be displayed as it thinks it should be (white is white, black is black ("I want my baby back")).

I also find white text on black annoying to read at any length. It burns horizontal lines into the retina, which are really annoying when you look at something lighter (a normal black-on-white window, a piece of paper, etc).

Night-vision for iSight!
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses

My mac seems to do this already. I have 10.3.9, but I also have quicksilver installed. Not sure if that is why it does it. It switches to the inverse colours then a few ms later it goes completely gray-scale.

I am currently trying to revise like mad for my exams coming up and I have just installed this app and set my text to yellow with everything else black and it really helps me to focus just on the text I am trying to read/write.

I set the text to yellow because apparently it helps you to retain the information better - even if this comes to do placebo then I am happy about that!

it would be cool to be able to set it to automatically switch nocturne on when the sun goes down every night. any thoughts?

This is fine for use during night time flights where you don't want to keep the people around you awake. But the irony is, a dark screen uses more power, so it's not ideal for battery conservation.

Otherwise, I've been using DarkAdaptedX for a long time. It has a lot more truly useful settings.

excellent, i've finally achieved that 'first scene from The Matrix' look i've been searching for for so long.

For astronomy, you don't really want any other color than red. You don't want white, that's for sure. And you especially don't want it at a dark site with other astronomers. They'll beat you with their equatorial mounts. :)
Well, probably not, but it's excessively rude, especially if others are doing astrophotography.

well, I'm red/green colorblind, so almost everything is monochrome to me anyway.