Turn your Retina Display into a CRT monitor with the Blinky text editor
While Apple's busily creating slimline iMacs and Retina Display MacBook Pros, some people hanker after the days of old, when text was green and monitors were bulky CRT affairs. Their prayers have been answered, in the form of the Blinky text editor app from Secret Geometry – available to download from the Mac App Store for £2.99.
Blinky replicates the experience of using an old monitor with effects adding 3D curvature to the screen, reflection, burn-in, scan-lines and the dated-looking fonts of old. It can turn your images into text-based affairs via its 'text art' function and there's even a webcam feature built in for viewing friends and family in the lowest quality.
Although it sounds like ocular torture compared with Microsoft Word, the actual presentation of the menus is impressive. Within seconds you'll have a nostalgia-tinged display that'll go perfectly with your Instagram photos and collection of retro gadgets.
[Blinky via DesignBoom]
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Comments
paskinmj
24 weeks ago
I work in Broadcast, and we have a Grade 1 HD CRT Monitors. This is used to QC our HD programmes. WHY? Because they're better quality than ANY LCD/PLASMA or LED monitor!! Thats why!! Who researches for this magazine? CRT monitors have not be bevelled as you described since the late eighties..... (sigh)!
wakrafhan
24 weeks ago
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. Here's the site to read more…… http://www.bing30.com