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Control the keyboard backlighting on the Mac

Many Mac laptops have a keyboard with backlighting. But there's no way to control how bright the backlighting is. You can turn it on and off. But when it's on the brightness is automatically controlled and they don't give you any way to adjust it.

Until now that is.

Lab Tick (http://labtick.proculo.de/) is a small app that lives in the menu bar, and it allows you to manually control the brightness of the keyboard backlight. It's free, simple to use, and it makes the keyboard backlight feature much nicer to use.
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Rating: 50% positive, 2 total Votes
Categories: Mac keyboard menu bar customization free
Added: on Dec 11, 2008 at 7:18 am
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: keyboard mac bar free menu

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