Subliminal Message Pro
Brief Description:
Subliminal Message Pro (SMP) helps you explore the idea of subliminal messages. Does it work? You decide. SMP flashes text messages on top of everything on the desktop. Messages are grouped into categories; messages displayed are selected from messages that are checked in list order or at random. Subliminal Message Pro is $10 shareware. The Demo Mode includes all features but shuts down ten minutes after each launch. This limitation is removed after you obtain and enter your registration info.
Version 1.3.0 lets the user randomly offset flashed messages horizontally and vertically. Plus, messages are split into multiple lines if they do not fit on a single line.
Click here to see the version for Windows XP.
Click here to see the non-subliminal text message version.
Click here to see the subliminal image version.
When you launch Subliminal Message Pro you see the Control Window. Set the top slider for the on-screen time (1 ms [1/1000 of a second] to 50 ms). Set the middle slider for the period between flashes (2 to 30 seconds) and set the bottom slider for the darkness of the text message. Above, you see that the on-screen time is set for 10 ms, messages are set to be displayed every 2 sec and the text is set for 100% dark. Text color is set for black; bold is turned on and font size is set for normal. As you move the bottom slider, the darkness of the sample text changes to show you the result of this setting. Choose whether messages should be chosen in list order or at random and whether messages should be offset randomly. At the top of the Control Panel there is an "Auto Minimize" checkbox. If "Auto Minimize" is checked, the SMP Control Panel will be minimized immediately after launch. Note: Minimize the Control Panel by clicking on the small yellow button at the top left of the window and let SMP run as you work in other applications. If you minimize SMP by using the Menu bar (Subliminal Message Pro > Hide), the messages will not continue to flash while you use other applications.
This program comes with five default categories, each with five text messages, so that you can try SMP. You will probably want to make your own categories and messages. SMP has unlimited capacity for messages and categories. Click on Messages in the menu to open the Message Maintenance window. When you first launch Subliminal Message Pro, the table includes the default categories and messages. You can drag the bottom right corner of the Message Maintenance window to make it taller and see more messages.
A category row starts with an asterisk (*). Category rows are displayed with a light green background. If you click on an existing row and add a message or category, the added row will be entered directly below the highlighted row. If a row is not selected, the added message or category will be placed at the bottom of the table. To edit a message in the table, click on the message to highlight it and then click again to start editing; click on the Return/Enter key when you are finished editing. You can drag rows up and down in the list. Displayed messages are chosen from Checked messages. To Check all rows of a category, double-click on a category row. To Uncheck all rows of a category, shift-double-click on a category row.
Categories and messages may include characters in Latin, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Korean, Cirillic, Hebrew, Russian, Afrikaans, Polish, etc. Fonts for these characters are included in the operating system unless you opted otherwise. Above you see examples of such characters.
You can clear the table and enter your own messages. A button is provided to save a file with the messages in the table and you can load a plain text file of messages. TextEdit works well for this purpose. Type one message per line (up to 80 characters) and choose Format > Make Plain Text before saving the file in Unicode (UTF-8) format with ".txt" suffix.
The Message Table information, Control Panel settings and Control Panel position on the display are saved between sessions.
You may be surprised that you can perceive a very brief and dim flash of a text message or picture. Because of its perceived power and influence at the subliminal level, this effect is not allowed in TV advertisements in many countries.
Downloads:
Click here to download SMP Version 1.3.0 (3.7 MB) for Macintosh (OS 10.2 or later, Universal Binary)
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