Dim the OS X menubar using MenuShade

November 28, 2006 by guestauthor in Apple,Tech with 6 Comments

MenuShade dimmed menubar

Paranoid that your LCD screen may suffer from eventual burn-in due to the white menubar that runs across the top of your screen (OS X)? Check out freeware MenuShade. MenuShade will dim the brightness on your menubar giving your LCD and eyes a rest. In addition, the free download offers a faux transparency option which will sample your current desktop wallpaper in order to create the illusion that your menubar is translucent.

Simply keep the tiny 192KB application running in your dock in order to see similar results to the screenshot above.

http://www.ashley.phpfora.com Ashley

Do you really think that the menu bar will burn your screen out? eyes are important just as a £1000 mac!!
Jeffy

I really liked it until I noticed it shows up in the Dock whenever it’s open…I’ve got my icons customized with minimalistic text so it looks funny, thanks though :)
matt

@jeffy

I agree =(
http://5thirtyone.com Derek

Yeh yeh, minimalistic dock types the lot of you… Use Dockless and stop complaining. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18195

It works. It’s PPC but you only need to run it once.
Andrew

I thought LCD’s don’t burn in? Just CRT, Plasma, Etc..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor_burn-in
http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

Maybe “burn” was too strong of a word… Apple prefers “image persistence” http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88343

Dim the OS X menubar using MenuShade

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