{"id":746253,"date":"2013-04-12T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=142698"},"modified":"2013-04-12T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:50:45","slug":"le-dimmer-helps-you-avoid-distractions-and-stay-focused-on-your-pc-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746253","title":{"rendered":"Le Dimmer helps you avoid distractions and stay focused on your PC work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-75010\" title=\"innovation lightbulb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/innovation-lightbulb.jpg?resize=378%2C245\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"245\" \/>If you\u2019re working on some important PC task and want to avoid distractions, then maximizing your program window is usually a good place to start. But if you need to monitor several programs -- or the window just can\u2019t be maximized -- then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/30014-le_dimmer\" >Le Dimmer<\/a> may offer a more interesting approach.<\/p>\n<p>The program is tiny, portable, and has just a single task: after launching, it dims everything on your desktop apart from the current window.<\/p>\n<p>The effect can be quite restful on the eyes, depending on your applications, with all the usual brightness reduced by a considerable degree. (Although if you run a program with a white background then the contrast becomes greater, so it won\u2019t work for everyone.)<\/p>\n<p>It all runs entirely automatically, too. There\u2019s nothing to do, no complex interface to navigate, the program just works. All you have to remember is to right-click the system tray and select \"Quit\" if you decide you don\u2019t need the effect any more, and want to resume normal operations.<\/p>\n<p>If you do need more control, though, there is a useful command line switch available. Pass the program a number between 0 and 255 (\"LeDimmer.exe 150\") and you\u2019re setting the \"Dim factor\". 150 is the default; increasing this will darken the dimmed part of the screen even further, while reducing the value will brighten it. (Check the program\u2019s ReadMe.txt for details.)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-142701\" title=\"Le Dimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Le-Dimmer-600x449.jpg?resize=360%2C269\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"269\" \/>Le Dimmer isn\u2019t quite bullet-proof. We changed our screen resolution while running the program, and not only did it not notice, but after a few clicks it also managed to crash Explorer. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Still, no data was lost, even with this extreme test. The rest of the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/30014-le_dimmer\" >Le Dimmer<\/a> worked just fine. And if you\u2019re looking for a way to focus your attention on one task, while not entirely losing track of some others, then the program could prove very useful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-168430p1.html\" >kentoh<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" >Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=rfIao03Kdiw:LAamFRNl00k:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=rfIao03Kdiw:LAamFRNl00k:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/rfIao03Kdiw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re working on some important PC task and want to avoid distractions, then maximizing your program window is usually a good place to start. But if you need to monitor several programs &#8212; or the window just can\u2019t be maximized &#8212; then Le Dimmer may offer a more interesting approach. The program is tiny, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4800,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-388l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}