CNET Editors' review
Isolator is a small, simple application designed to enhance your productivity by reducing visual distractions. Isolator can blur, cover up, or hide all other application windows and the dock, with a quick keystroke or by clicking on Isolator's icon in the menu bar.
You can set blur intensity, background color, opacity, and fade speed, and you can choose from several options for how Isolator is activated and whether it opens on start-up. The developer behind Isolator has done an excellent job of adding functionality in successive updates (like the blur effect and support for multiple monitors) while making sure that this free application still feels smooth and streamlined. Anyone who wants help staying focused should definitely check out Isolator.
Publisher's Description
From Ben Willmore:
Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.
What's new in this version: Fix auto-update problems. NB This version is not compatible with 10.4 -- hopefully the next version will be.
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"Great tweak! I've been looking all over for this!"
Version: Isolator 4.4
Pros
Provides flexible options to make your front-most windows take prominence while windows from other apps recede visually into the background. Choose from various levels of dimming the background windows, blurring or softening the background windows.
Cons
COuld uses slightly more control over the blur effect to make it softer or lighter. It would be nice to combine effects (blur + "bloom") or have few additional effects
Summary
Nice way to give focus to a busy screen.
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"Fantastic! Exactly what I needed."
Version: Isolator 4.4
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This little utility is easy to set up, has just the right number of options, and simply makes the Mac more usable. No more Option-Command-H (Hide Others) every two minutes! -
"A Must Have"
Version: Isolator 4.4
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Simply brilliant. I run this with menu eclipse or simply configure the mac menu to hide using presentyourapps and you've got a distraction free work space. You can turn any program into a distraction free program with Isolator. I've tried the others but this is the best out there.
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