Shades Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Monitor too bright? Put on some Shades

by TJ Luoma (Oct 18th, 2009)

This one goes out to all the night owls. As much as I love my iMac, I was surprised to see how little control it gave me over the screen's brightness. I often work on my iMac late at night in an otherwise darkened room, and even at the lowest brightness setting, the iMac is really, really bright. ...

Shades: application color customization

by Brian Liloia (Feb 6th, 2007)

You know those paint color sample strips that you typically see in home improvement stores? They usually have different shades of the same color on individual strips so that you can easily compare and fine-tune your color choices. Shades 1.0 applies this same methodology of color selection to the ...