Blackout

Blackout is a small software application developed specifically for helping you place a frame on your desktop that can cover specific areas of the screen and highlight important data.

Straightforward approach

As soon as you open the program, it automatically adds a black frame to your desktop. You can access the utility’s configuration settings by right-clicking on the frame.
What’s more, you are allowed to resize the frame according to your preferences in order to hide several items from your desktop and focus solely on an active document, project, or window. You may also appeal to a help manual in case you have extra questions about the dedicated parameters.

Tweaking options

Blackout offers you the possibility to switch between a screen frame and single cover mode. The first one adds a frame around the bottom, upper, left, and right side of your screen, while the single cover mode gives you the freedom to place multiple black rectangles on your screen which can be moved to the desired position using drag-and-drop actions. You may also resize the rectangles according to your liking.
What’s more, you can change the looks of the frames with the aid of several preset colors, namely black, grey, silver, or white. If you press the ‘Esc’ key, the tool automatically restores the size of the frame to its default value. On the downside, you cannot alter the transparency level of the frames.
Tests have shown that Blackout carries out a task quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

Final remarks

To sum things up, Blackout provides a simple software solution for helping you make use of colorful frames in order to point to certain windows on your screen. The basic configuration package makes it easy to tweak by rookies and professionals alike.