[RooneyX]

They keep nicking my ideas! Cool. Steve-O, just ask and I'll tell you what I think of those widgets.

[Stradlater]

I got another idea in keeping with the whole big cats, jungle and Safari thing. It's called Torchlight.

Basically it allows you to work in the dark with laptop screen brightness set to almost zero. It shines a sphere of light, like a torchlight, around the area you are working on only while leaving the rest of the screen dark (though not totally). So the light would appear around either mouse or text cursor. It should be configurable too. Adjust the brightness of torchlight, the raduis of the torchlight and the darkness of the unlit areas. It should also be activated with one key press or shortcut.

Before one asks what is the purpose for this feature I will explain. Some people use their laptops on fieldjobs in the dark. This feature not only saves battery power by illuminating just a section of the screen but also helps keep their work discreet. Others use their laptops on planes and other public areas and don't want people snooping over their shoulders and reading the contents of their whole screen.

It's basically the same as using a small light when reading a book or writing. To work properly it might need some hardware implementation because current LCDs aren't able to reduce the brightness of parts of the screen while highlighting other parts.

Well it's ALMOST the same thing

[timmerk]

Nice try RooneyX! hehehe

[funkboy]

Wow, I'd really like that idea.

However, that's a hardware design issue... to truly save battery life, you'd need to be able to turn on/off the backlight behind each individual pixel (or small grouping of pixels). This isn't doable right now... but for safeguarding data, yes, it's a neat idea.

[C.J. Moof]

I use the app formerly known as NightVision X to not get blinded by the display at night. It's useless for color correction, but for websurfing without being blinded, it works.

Combine it with Corner Click and you've got an easy to implement solution.