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Screen Cleaner Brightens Fading Displays
Dirty Screen Boy writes "Over time, your LCD or CRT monitor will gradually fade in brightness and contrast. This fading is inevitable, because the backlights for LCD screens eventually fade, and the photo-reactive substrate on CRT monitors eventually degrades.
ScreenCleaner Pro rectifies this situation by altering the gamma of your monitor to compensate for monitor degradation, so it will look as good as new. Don't toss out that old monitor, just run ScreenCleaner Pro on it, and watch your old monitor gain a new life.
Simply let ScreenCleaner Pro run in the background, and it will automatically analyze your monitor's gamma curve and relative luminescence. After enough calibration data has been collected, ScreenCleaner Pro will adjust your monitor to like-new condition.
The analyzation/calibration process can take up to 10 minutes, but you can work normally while ScreenCleaner Pro is analyzing your monitor; simply let it run in the background."
get a "cloth" and "wipe" the display.
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I mean c'mon, its already April 2nd in Europe...
I think we should all give cmdrtaco a round of applause.
I want to know how this was able to anylyse anything in my monitor? I ran it for awhile and it didn't do anything, then suddenly 10 minutes later it's like its wiping large amounts of dust off the screen. It's made a really good difference to the screen.
Is this permanent or something I will have to run often? its not going to shorten the monitor life is it? I have a CRT.
It's for Mac OS X...
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
kerosene soot, you know. gets all over the insides. say, who's the new gatekeepers at slashdot, they have a fine sense of news and are adept at sorting out all the political lies. these guys should take over for good. anybody hear any good rumors about the new apple device for bathrooms called the iPeed?
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Every CRT monitor actually ships with a built-in dustcloth (or, in some higher-end models, a tiny man with a squeegee), but it's rendered unusable through trickery. Most monitor companies disable it by cutting a trace, while others disable it using firmware.
Firmware's trivial to bypass, but the cut traces... now that's tricky. What this software does is actually increase the speed of the electrons inside your monitor so they can jump the gap -- much like an Olympic long jumper -- and activate the cleaning circuitry.
If you take your monitor housing apart and turn out the lights in the room while running the software, you can actually watch this occur several times per second. It's fascinating to see.
... where it alters the gamma of the user.
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One user, now being transported to an undisclosed military base in Nevada, said, "I tried this screen cleaner program, and all of a sudden, I felt
Aww, it's too bad that this program isn't available for Windows 95 or 3.1. :( I could use that program. I'll try to find a Mac G5 to connect my monitor to.