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HazeOver: Distraction Dimmer™ update

HazeOver looks cute on MacBook Neo. Especially if you match the color.

Xcode 26 Beta 5 lets you activate ChatGPT in a VM. No longer tied to Apple Intelligence. A bit ironic that they use ChatGPT, but its Swift knowledge is from 2023. While Sonnet 4 says September 2024 and Opus 4.1 says January 2025. That is for something that has 2026 in its name.

HazeOver 1.9.6 released with localization updates across 33 languages and bug fixes. Fully compatible with macOS Sequoia. Works on macOS Tahoe 26 Beta as is, with full support and UI enhancements coming soon. Try it! hazeover.com/download.html

@robhope @lesley_pizza @whale awww… I’m so glad someone appreciates such details too

@lesley_pizza @whale yup! and they have the sweetest meta video thumbnail that plays video if you share the site URL in apps like iMessage

Cheers @whale for heads up on HazeOver "Distraction Dimmer" - puts a dark overlay on background apps to focus on current work window. Just grabbed it for $5 from AppStore and after a few mins in I'm puzzled why this isn't native to macOS. So good. → hazeover.com

@mitch_tabian Don’t mean to sound basic, but basic

What was the first coding language you really LOVED?

@dustin Aww, thank you!

@pointum just wanted to drop in to your @’s and say I really enjoy HazeOver!

@iSiannath If you’ve upgraded to macOS Catalina and you’re still interested in scheduling HazeOver, you can now do that with with a Focus Filter. Let me know if you need help setting it up. And it’s still an option to tie HazeOver state to Dark mode on Catalina and later.

@pointum Oh, my Mac cannot run Mojave nor Catalina :-( but if you use that could be a welcomed improvement for lots of people, of course! If I used Catalina, I would use Automatic Dark Mode.

Hey @pointum, I know that @HazeOverApp is automatable via AppleScript, but it would be great if you add the option to auto-enable HazeOver at night and leave it disabled during daytime. Anyway, thank you for your app!

@avrampetru If you’re still interested in scheduling HazeOver, you can now do with with a Focus Filter in macOS Ventura. Let me know if you need help setting it up.

@avrampetru thank you! I’m considering something that would help with scheduling. I’ll let you know when it’s available.

@HazeOverApp If it's not too much trouble can you add a scheduling feature to HazeOver to be able to change the shade during the circadian cycle? I find myself fiddling a lot based on the lighting conditions. Thanks! It's a Great App !

@Muurtegel thank you for pointing that out. I haven’t tested Universal Control yet. I’ll let you know if I make some relevant changes.

Trying out macOS Ventura beta? DM me if you want to try out a beta version of HazeOver as well.

@DanielAtik @HazeOverApp I’ve released a beta version of HazeOver for macOS Ventura. Please DM me if you want to try it out.

@pointum @HazeOverApp Perfect!! Thanks for all!! You must know I bought “Window Focus Dim Screen” and “Focus - Highlights front Window” and all of them have the same issue. But I love HazeOver, is the best!! 🤗

@HazeOverApp Hi there! this is Daniel and I recently installed your app HazeOver in my MacOS with latest Ventura Beta but it does not run propperly. Could you confirm me. It will run with MacOS Ventura? thanks!

@godbout Hey! Yeah, that’s a huge bummer. I’ve submitted FB a couple weeks ago. Hopefully having FB from numerous apps affected will get attention to the bug 🙌

@pointum not sure if you’re aware but ordering windows below doesn’t work in macOS Ventura. seems like a bug. will report. hopefully Apple will not ignore (again). this will affect HazeOver (this affects both my apps @kindaVim and @wooshyapp)

@OstynHyss @markgurman

@markgurman Me

@neilsardesai They are just moody youtu.be/vH2AGG2yBOc

oh no im going to verizon jail

@Niqueish something like that (highlighting on mouse over) is a feature I've had requested for HazeOver. This animated approach is not what I have in mind, but it looks fun.

@hexFR I you have a Mac OS you can actually use HazeOver app

sometimes you gotta tune down the render distance💩

@icanzilb Sounds like mac/OS/X upgrade speedrun 100%. Make a video 🤣

@icanzilb VMware Fusion next? I have Ventura guest in it, but it was a Monterey upgrade, which probably was a Big Sur upgrade. I.e. don’t remember if clean installs worked. But it helped making snapshots between different stages.

@icanzilb @ronyfadel You’ll get other VM related issues with M1 😅

@icanzilb @ronyfadel I’ve been using UTM for a few months since I got M1. AMA

@ronyfadel @icanzilb Looks like Parallels

@icanzilb Is this VirtualBox?