nocturnal
A Dimness and Night Shift menu bar app for macOS 🌙 (by joshjon)
free-sidecar
Enable Sidecar on Unsupported iPads and Macs running iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina (by ben-z)
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| over 1 year ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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nocturnal
Posts with mentions or reviews of nocturnal.
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- Why is this happening?
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Anyone else photosensitive all the time, even when you're not having an attack?
Applications that dim in a different way than typical brightness/contrast settings. For Windows I use pangobright. For Mac there is Nocturnal, though I've not tried it. It appears to have similar methods for brightness and contrast reduction. What Pangobright does is puts a layer of gray over bright white/lighter colors. It was a godsend when I had migraines on top of IIH.
free-sidecar
Posts with mentions or reviews of free-sidecar.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.
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Not sure which macOS version you’re running but you can try your luck with Free Sidecar. It enables unsupported Macs and iPads to also use Sidecar. It’s worked for me in the past, problem was I was trying to enable support on an iPad Air 2 and Sidecar only works with an Apple Pencil (IPA2 does not support Pencil) so it did not work regardless. But it may be able to help your situation.
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Any way to get Sidecar/Universal Control to work with an iPad Air Gen 2?
My Macbook meets all of the requirements to run Sidecar and Universal Control perfectly fine, but my iPad is just one generation too old. I feel like it should still be capable of supporting Sidecar since I've already found what looks to be a working method to run Sidecar on much older Macs and iPads ("Free Sidecar" https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar). This method would not work for me though, I believe because my Macbook is updated to Monterey and this was designed a while ago for Catalina. If my iPad can go as far as running Universal Control, that would be even better.
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Desperate for Sidecar to work HELP IF POSSIBLE!! plz&thnx!!
Also, when following this guide found in a different post (https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar), I try the first step to make a backup file for Sidecar, by running this in Terminal: cp /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SidecarCore.framework/Versions/A/SidecarCore ~/Downloads/SidecarCore.bak
- Using Universal Control and Sidecar at the same time..
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Just Ordered M1 Mac Mini w 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
I'll leave this here https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar, you can always try it before upgrading to a better iPad.
- [Question] is there any tweak that turns your older iPad 5th generation into a duel monitor? I’m on iOS 14.4 so I don’t have the native iPad functionality that enables this and all the other options cost money in the App Store.
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how do i get sidecar to work? open core big sur
-ben-z's free-sidecar ONLY IF your SMBIOS doesn't support Sidecar natively. I don't know for sure but if it can run Big Sur odds are it can run Sidecar. The method covered in this git readme might not work though if Big Sur changed codesigning.
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I created Deskreen. This is a free open source desktop app that makes any device with a web browser a second screen for your computer. Built with ElectronJS, React and other web technologies.
Nice work, but check this out: https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nocturnal and free-sidecar you can also consider the following projects:
finicky - A macOS app for customizing which browser to start
FeatureUnlock - Add Sidecar support to unsupported models
MinimalClock - MinimalClock: a MacOS screen saver
deskreen - Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
billboard - 📰 Add a text to your Mac menu bar
Legacy-Video-patch - Fix Old Graphics card in macOS Catalina 10.15++
pibar - PiBar for Pi-hole - Manage your Pi-hole(s) from your macOS menu bar!
SlideOverCard - A SwiftUI card view, made great for setup interactions.
reminders-menubar - Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source.
Google-Chinese-Results-Blocklist - 我终于能用谷歌搜中文了……
macinbox - Puts macOS in a Vagrant box
purge-wrangler - AMD & NVIDIA eGPUs for all Thunderbolt Macs.
nocturnal vs finicky
free-sidecar vs FeatureUnlock
nocturnal vs MinimalClock
free-sidecar vs deskreen
nocturnal vs billboard
free-sidecar vs Legacy-Video-patch
nocturnal vs pibar
free-sidecar vs SlideOverCard
nocturnal vs reminders-menubar
free-sidecar vs Google-Chinese-Results-Blocklist
nocturnal vs macinbox
free-sidecar vs purge-wrangler