Its many uses include hiding desktop clutter and other distractions during on-screen activity such as tasks, presentations or video playback and Kino can be run from any USB memory stick or Flash drive making it a completely portable application. The user can adjust the opacity from full transparency to dimmed grey to full black with a slider control at the right side of the screen.
It can also be closed completely by clicking the red X symbol. Kino (Isolator is the Mac equivalent) provides ease of use with a simple green symbol which allows the program to be minimised to the desktop toolbar at any time and can reappear onscreen whenever needed. Controlling the ‘other’ screen when reading the information is unhindered as it would be normally as you scroll down the webpage or document. The amount that is visible at any one time is resizable at the wish of the user. This darkened area can be controlled with a slider control at the right side of the screen so that only the selected area you have chosen remains visible. Kino is a screen dimming tool that enables the user to select an area of the computer screen to be displayed in a viewing pane using a crosshair ‘cut’ while darkening the rest of the screen from full transparency to total black. Written by Oliver Whelton, Learning Support Tutor, UCC What Can Kino Do - Introduction to Screen Reading Software
