Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.
Now that it is the Halloween season, it is that time of the year you dress up as your favorite scary person and go around the neighborhood for Candy. Over time, Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, doing costumes, and eating treats.
Halloween or Hallowe’en, less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day.
Sissy (2022) Halloween movie with the atmosphere lighting feature around the video player
Thereby here is the best pick for a really scary one, in order for you to feel the spirit of the Halloween season. These 3 brand new Halloween movies you watch on YouTube:
Sissy (2022) Teen best friends Cecilia and Emma, after a decade run into each other. Cecilia is invited to Emma’s bachelorette weekend. However, she gets stuck in a remote cabin with her high school bully with a taste for revenge.
Hocus Pocus 2(2022) It is about three young women who accidentally bring back the Sanderson Sisters to modern-day Salem and must figure out how to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking havoc on the world.
Halloween Ends (2022) Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers has not been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can’t control.
Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.
In Europe and Nord America, the upcoming winter proves to be harsh, and there can be an electric power shortage. So a power outage can be possible. To avoid selective power cuts, you can use a battery such as the Tesla battery. That reduces the heavy use of your electric usage from the power grid.
On your side, you can use the Turn Off the Lights browser extension, it reduces the use of your battery and electric power. Here with these simple tricks, you browse many hours on the internet.
User action you can take today to avoid an electric power shortage
Here is an overview of the features you can use and enable to save electric power shortage.
1. 🔅 Dim your screen
Reducing the brightness of the computer screen can reduce power consumption. And that is especially useful with laptops. And with Turn Off the Lights, you can even dim it further and let only the video be played on top of this dimmed web page.
2. ⏯ Automatically block media download
Another powerful options are the use of the AutoStop feature, which stops automatically downloading and playing the HTML5 video in your web browser. That resource will be not loaded when you open a new web page.
3. 📽 Reduce the video quality
When you have a groundbreaking performance and an amazing battery laptop, you want to see everything hair sharp. That with the highest video resolution such as 8k 60fps HDR Dolby Vision. But that increased video quality is not always necessary to see the video. Because of the choice of your high video quality usage, the data center server in your country to download and stream this YouTube video will receive highly intensive use. And will consume a huge use of electric energy and that will increase more C02 into the atmosphere.
Reduce the video quality on YouTube to reduce electric energy consumption and prevent the electric power shortage
To reduce this massive power consumption on the Google data centers, you can enable the YouTube AutoHD feature in the Turn Off the Lights browser extension. And choose to force to play the video at 720p and block the 60FPS. Then each new video will be played on that video resolution at the normal 30 FPS.
4. 🌚 Dark Mode reduces battery usage
Convert all your websites to dark mode, when you use the Night Mode feature, all websites will be converted to your harmonious dark theme. And because you are using 100% black, that screen pixel on an OLED screen is not activated. As a result, it can save more battery power. Then a bright website you visited every day, such as Google Search or YouTube website.
Electrical Energy Usage
If you want to measure your electric energy saved (that to avoid an electric power shortage), you can. When the gray lamp of the Turn Off the Lights browser extension is visible in your web browser toolbar. You can click double on the gray lamp button to get the mini settings panel. Then you can navigate to the Analytics tab. And you will see this panel in your web browser:
The double-click panel on the Analytics tab, that said the total electrical energy saved with the use of the Turn Off the Lights browser extension
This provides you with more valuable information about the electric energy you saved, and it will calculate how much time you dimmed that web page and see the total saved in KWh. With a realistic example to compare that saving amount. Such as saving the lights on for up to 6 hours. For further detailed information you can open the Turn Off the Lights browser extension Options page, at the Analytics you can see how much electric energy you can save by each website, and on what day of the week.
Everyone can experience an electric power shortage. If it is not today, it can be tomorrow an electric power shortage. But now you know the handy tips to try to avoid electric power shortage in your country.
To enable one or more of these useful and optional features, you can download the latest Turn Off the Lights browser extension today on the official Turn Off the Lights website. It is the only free and Open-Source browser extension that provides you this promise to the users, to get the best web experience in your favorite web browser. If you love the Turn Off the Lights browser extension, please do not forget to support our hard work by making a small contribution. Each contribution will be much appreciated to continually improve this experience and get the extension available for everyone at the store.
Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.
Today you can get the latest Turn Off the Lights Safari Extension on your iPhone and iPad, which uses the browser extension Manifest version 3 technology. That has better privacy, performance, and security for the users. And you can syncing Safari web extension on your iPhone and Mac.
Turn Off the Lights for Safari with the Atmosphere Lighting effect enabled on the iPad Pro. And the iPhone on the new brand home page.
The new Turn Off the Lights for Safari on iPhone and iPad includes an improved welcome guide. Where the visual images are bigger and with a bit of information about the feature you can use. And with steps on how to enable the Safari extension on your device. Furthermore, the home screen of the app has been redesigned, with an overview of the community and how to be connected with other members.
Syncing Safari web extension across devices and platforms
Last year, Apple introduced Safari extensions on iOS and iPadOS. One of the new features in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura this year is that users can enable extension syncing across their iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. Syncing Safari web extension will so easy in the Apple ecosystem.
In Safari 16 or later, when a user has installed your Safari web extension on one device, they can install your extension on another device directly from Safari Extensions Preferences, without visiting the App Store. When a user enables or disables your extension on one device, the system syncs that change to the user’s other devices that have the web extension installed. The user can disable syncing for a specific extension. Syncing works for all Safari web extensions, including content blockers.
Turn Off the Lights for Safari is a universal app, which means it is free on iOS and Mac. And you can get it on both platforms. So syncing Safari web extension will be syncing the Safari web extension to your iOS device and Mac computer in a seamless way.
How to share Safari extension across devices from iPhone and iPad on iOS 16
Open the Settings app on your iPhone and iPad
Scroll down until you see the menu item Safari, and tap to open it
Next, tap on Extensions
Finally, turn on the toggle switch to enable the Share Across Devices option
Night Mode with a dark filter for all the images
In this new version, you can dim all the images. So the images are not so bright for your eyes (late at night). You can customize the image-dimmed layer with dark and grayscale filter options. The feature is available for desktop and mobile users.
Night Mode option to dim all the images with a dark grayscale filter
Control your video with your Game Controller
Do you have your iPad at a far distance from you? Then you can use your wireless PlayStation Controller or Xbox Controller to change instantly the volume of that video player, but also to skip or go to the next YouTube video. Now you can choose also on what website you want to allow this feature (such as only on the YouTube website).
PlayStation DualSense wireless controller
You can download the latest Turn Off the Lights for Safari for your iOS 16 today using TestFlight, and it will be released later on the public release date of iOS 16. It is the only free and Open-Source Safari extension that is available for both Mac and iOS. If you love the Turn Off the Lights in Safari extension, please do not forget to support our hard work by making a small contribution. Each contribution will be much appreciated to continually improve this experience and get the app available for everyone at the Store. And when the macOS Ventura is publicly available you can be syncing Safari web extension and more.
Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.
