Xander Frangos is an independent Canadian developer whose compact Windows utilities solve two everyday pain points that Microsoft leaves unaddressed. Twinkle Tray adds a long-missing system-tray slider for simultaneous brightness control of internal and external monitors, remembering per-display levels and supporting DDC/CI-compatible hardware without vendor bloatware. Crushee complements this by offering drag-and-drop batch compression of PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF and GIF files through an Electron front-end that exposes the same mozjpeg, oxipng and libwebp encoders used by high-end pipelines, yet wraps them in a simple right-click context menu. Designers use the pair to prepare dual-monitor editing stations and quickly slim screenshots for documentation; IT departments bundle them on laptops to reduce eye strain and outgoing email size; home-office users rely on the utilities to dim secondary displays at night and shrink photo folders before cloud upload. Both tools are portable, MIT-licensed, update through GitHub, and consume under 50 MB combined. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are pulled from trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest release, and can be queued for batch installation alongside other applications.

Crushee

Crushee is an image compression tool, powered by Electron and Node.js.

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Twinkle Tray

Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray

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