MacBooks are among the best laptops for media consumption. The MacBook Pro, in particular, has a gorgeous display and large stereo speakers that fire upward. Both the 14 and 16-inch variants have ...

The MacBook Pro‘s screen brightness is a hardware control with a well-defined maximum setting, yet there is an app that can unlock tons of display intensity that would otherwise never be seen. The Mac ...

When you watch HDR videos on the mini-LED screens of a Pro Display XDR or a 2021 MacBook Pro, the displays can crank out up to 1,600 nits of brightness. But under most conditions, they’ll emit about ...

Even though the MacBook Pro Mini-LED screens can reach a maximum of 1,600 nits of peak brightness, this is only possible when watching HDR videos by default. Under normal circumstances, users can ...

Developers Jordi Bruin and Ben Harraway have released an application called Vivid that allows Apple’s new MacBook Pro models and Pro Display XDR to achieve double the brightness systemwide—something ...

Pixel phones have a default flashlight brightness of 50%, and unlike many Android devices, they lack a built-in way to adjust brightness directly from Quick Settings. Users can increase the flashlight ...

Researchers from the German “Loss of the Night” project have developed an app for Android smartphones that counts the number of visible stars in the sky. The data from the app will be used by ...

With iOS 14 last year, Apple added a new Adaptive Lighting feature to HomeKit. This feature allows lighting that can change to be automatically adjusted throughout the day. A new third-party HomeKit ...

Apple has changed its mind about the popular screen brightness management tool F.lux. Apparently, the company claims F.lux’s developers weren’t allowed to use Xcode or the iOS standard developer kit ...

This is a cool idea and props to the developers. Considering the price, the developers' slightly odd trumpeting of their own cleverness, and the caveat about the risk of the app breaking in the future ...