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Daily Trick 2. Total Darkness
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Usually, in order to adjust the brightness of our Mac to 0%, we will press and hold the function button all the way until the light from our Mac is gone. And I am not satisfied with this usual stuff as it's not giving me immediate darkness to my Mac.
I've mentioned this trick somewhere in previous articles, we can use single keystrokes to get total darkness of our Mac.
0% Brightness
Shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-Eject.
This will sleep only the display without turning your Mac into sleep mode.
And this saves more battery power compared to turning on screen saver.
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7 Comments
caschy
Thanks - love this tricks!
coltrane
great, thanks
sk_dakota
Better idea to define an active corner (system preferences - exposé and spaces) and choose here "hibernate mode of the display".... quicker and easier to deactivate (like a screensaver) and if you in addition shut off the screensaver and configure a short time in the power settings for activate the "hibernate mode of the display you will have the perfect power saving screen dimmer
monthsforever
nice trick. i like it a lot.
techEnthu
this is my primary way of extending my macbook screen. LCD panels has its operating time.
i leave my mac on overnights. zeroing the brightness on MBs wont turn the screen off they just darken it. u can see the screen but no backlight. So as a result the LCD panel is working all night until it auto-sleep as set.
I knew about this useful key combo from one of the apple tech friend i've been talking to and I use it regularly.
gr8 tips =]
Peter
A word of warning: this turns off output to ALL displays connected. There is currently (as far as I'm aware) no way of turning off an iMac's built in screen and using just the externally connected screen. I have a 40" TV as my main monitor with a 24" iMac sitting near it. I don't use the iMac's screen, and I want to save energy (and possibly cool down my Mac a bit).
Adi N.
From where can I find your wallpaper?
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