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LCD-Screens ::: Scrub it clean

February 7th, 2008 at 21:42

Just found a very great story via daringfireball.net

You can find the article from John Gruber here.

Its about a new application which can be used if your LCD-Screen has burn-in’s.

More details and the full story (and application for sure) can be found at toastycode.com

Quote:

Basicly its about a software which can be used if your LCD seems to have burn-in’s.

I set about building a screen saver module that would let me try different high-contrast patterns to see how they fared. Furthermore, since patterns with thin bright lines caused the problem, I set about using similar line patterns to ameliorate it.

It worked.

After a day of using the high-contrast patterns, the lines were almost invisible; the next day they were gone

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