4/30/2023 0 Comments Hazeover windows![]() ![]() Either way, I think it could make your daily work easier and more productive. Or, you may use it for specific tasks like I do in my blog writing. You may just leave HazeOver on all the time for all your Apps. I think the whopping price of $4.99 is well worth it if you can use this type of productivity enhancement in your daily workflow. I think you can see, HazeOver is a well thought out App. You can assign all kinds of keyboard shortcuts for your workflow in the Shortcuts Tab. There are settings if you have more than one display. Also, you can change the darkening background color which is kind of cool. I like the “All front windows of active App” setting. Here is the Advanced Tab which has more settings that might be helpful to you. Here is the General Tab which is pretty self-explanatory. HazeOver has a fair amount of Preferences. You can see where you set the amount of darkening. I don’t keep it on all the time, but according to their website, some people do. When you click on it, you get a menu of things you can do one of which is to activate the slider which turns HazeOver on. If you are writing, it really does help you to focus on what you are doing. DeskCover also allows you to focus on your current task by highlighting the window of the currently active application. HazeOver is set to 64% to produce this background darkening effect. Here is what the HazeOver effect looks like. MarsEdit does not have a Focused Writing feature, so when I start an article I use HazeOver to darken the rest of the screen while I write. The best place I have found Focused Writing is in the Ulysses App, but I believe the MarsEdit App is better for blogging. I primarily use HazeOver when I am writing blog articles for Macessence. It can be helpful, here is what it looks like. It helps keep the App you are working on in front and in focus. Too many windows to manage? Large display? Or sometimes getting lost in multiple monitors? HazeOver is for you! This app automatically highlights the front window by fading out all the background windows. Enter a really neat little App called HazeOver Distraction Dimmer. Sometimes an App I am working on can get sort of lost. I really love this machine, but a 27” screen is fairly large. (You cannot currently change the keyboard shortcut, but the developer told me that he would be adding that ability to the app’s preferences soon.) And if you press the fn key when dragging something from one app to another, HazeOver fades away so you can see all your windows.I do a lot of work everyday on my 2019 iMac 27” computer. There’s a keyboard shortcut to toggle HazeOver’s functionality, so if you need to see all your windows for a while, that option is just a keystroke away. Another option lets you only highlight windows on the active display, if you use more than one. Depending on how you work, you may want to use the latter. ![]() It also lets you choose how long the fading animation lasts when you switch windows if it’s too short, I find it looks like a flash, so I have it set to 0.40 seconds, which means that the background windows fade away gracefully when I switch.Īnother option is to highlight just one window, or all windows of the frontmost app. HazeOver lets you tweak how much it dims your windows: you can choose to slightly soften their brightness, or you can block them out entirely. I haven’t had a problem with this, but once again, this is a pretty good use case for HazeOver, since it will dim all the windows that aren’t in the foreground, making the top window pop. You can change settings from the app’s Preferences window, or by clicking its menu bar icon. With the arrival of Big Sur, of course, there are a lot of complaints that it’s hard to differentiate between active windows. HazeOver dims all but the frontmost window. ![]()
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