Brightness by bergdesign

What is Brightness?

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Brightness adds a menu bar item for adjusting the brightness of your Mac's built-in display. And, and if your MacBook or MacBook Pro has a backlit keyboard, Brightness adds a second menu bar item for adjusting it.

Installation

Drop Brightness into your Applications folder or any other folder of your choice, then double-click its icon to launch it.

To make Brightness always available after a restart, you should add it to your login items:

Open up the System Preferences
Click on the “Accounts” item
Click on “Login Options”
Choose the “Login Items” tab and add Brightness to the list

If you need to quit the app, simply open the Activity Monitor, select “Brightness” from the list of processes and press the “Quit Progress” toolbar button.

Purchase

What's it cost? Nuthin'. Nada. Zip. It's freeware :)

Download

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Brightness_1.1.2.dmg

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later

It is recommended that you install Brightness in the "Applications" folder, but it can be installed anywhere on your system if you prefer. Simply drag and drop the application to the destination folder of your choice.

Want your fn keys back?

Most of the time, the special function keys for sound and brightness are nice. But sometimes you need your normal function keys back for apps like Photoshop, and you hate chording the "fn" key to get them.

In the system prefs, you can turn on the keyboard preference for "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys," but then you lose the ability to adjust screen brightness because Apple doesn't provide a menu extra to do it like they do for volume. Instead, you have to open the System Preferences and use the slider in the Displays pane for screen brightness.

Well, Brightness is the solution.

Have an Axiotron Modbook?

Then you'll love Brightness since there's no way to adjust the display backlight without opening the System Prefs.