Buffalo, New York – XCool Apps today is pleased to announce iBrightness, their latest app designed for Apple’s MacBook line of portable computers. iBrightness is now available on the Mac App Store, and is targeted at filling the gap for one of the most basic features that should have been built-in to each MacBook that Apple sells.

You see, whenever we turn the power adapter on or off, our MacBooks will automatically adjust the screen brightness. However, it switches the brightness according to what it thinks is right, sometimes depending on what it feels like, even when we switched off the automatic brightness setting.

We work on our Macs the whole day, and we grew tired of our MacBooks constantly forgetting the brightness level that we have set whenever we change power sources, so we came out with the idea for iBrightness.

Besides allowing you to freely adjust your brightness level straight from the menu bar, iBrightness sits in the menu bar, waiting for your Mac’s power source to change and then re-adjusts the screen brightness according to what you have previously set. No more guessing if the screen will be too dim when you move away from the power socket, or if it will be too bright because you turned to the power adapter. iBrightness is here to keep the guessing game away.

iBrightness features:
Automatically adjust your portable Mac’s screen brightness when switching power source
Separate brightness levels for each power source: battery or power adapter
Adjust screen brightness levels easily from the comfort of your menu bar
Option to run app on system startup (recommended)

Notes: iBrightness is designed for portable Macs like the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro running Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard or above. You may run this app on non-portable Macs, but with reduced functionalities.

System Requirements:
* Apple Macintosh computer
* Designed for MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro
* Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later
* 0.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
iBrightness 1.0 is available at a low price of $0.99 USD (or its equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available worldwide exclusively through Apple’s Mac App Store in the Utilities category.

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XCool Apps develops cool applications for Apple’s extremely popular iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and the Macintosh line of computers. Their previous release, AppSwitch “the missing app for iPhone and iPod touch” was a huge success and continues to be peerless in its category, while iType2Go Pro was awarded the 2009 NYTimes Pogie Awards for the Year’s Best Tech Ideas. Copyright (C) 2011 XCool Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.