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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."
And its actually a problem that can be remedied with some simple soldering in of a new resistor. Our ACM at Hopkins has taken to relieving people of monitors with this affliction and fixing them for ourselves resulting in a dramatic increase in 19" & 21" monitors in our office.
Just to explain for those of you who haven't looked hard enough...
(spoiler alert)
The program slowly dims your monitor for 10 minutes, then brightens it back to how it was. Yes, it's an April Fool's joke. Probably the only one today that actually fooled people....
Grab.app wasn't able to properly capture the dustcloth while it was moving, but this should give you some idea of what Screen Cleaner Pro looks like.
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