InjuredPixels 1.0

Today’s the big day! New laptop day! You’ve saved up a good thousand bucks and you’re finally going to get yourself a good laptop that is going to be worthwhile instead of the cheap sub $400 laptops that you’ve been accustomed to. You want a laptop with high powered specs: a great processor, beastly RAM, and a killer screen to top it off. After searching the web for the one your heart desires you finally make your purchase. You wait for it to be sent in the mail, it gets to your door and you rip the packaging clean off in one go. You open it up test it out and it works flawlessly. You keep the computer for months on top of months and then notice something that you missed before: A dead pixel! You search your home for the warranty information only to find that the warranty period ended last week. Now you’re stuck with this laptop and the dead pixel that came with it. Every day you use this laptop you see that one dead pixel and it aggravates you to the point of no return.

We’ve all been in that situation before. And if you haven’t, you probably just never noticed that dead pixel sitting in the corner of your screen – I’m pretty sure someone just looked at their screen and had their day ruined by that statement. Don’t let this happen to you again. InjuredPixels is an application from the developers over at Aurelify have developed a very useful application that allows you to test a computer for dead or damaged pixels so that you can return it within the warranty period.

InjuredPixels fills the entire screen with a single color so that you can check for pixels that do not match the selected color and for pixels that are not showing a color at all. It is a very simple application that doesn’t take any specific direction at all. Simply click the left mouse button to change colors or use the arrow keys. If the computer is touch screen, you can also tap on the screen to change the color. This will also allow you to the test the responsiveness of your computer’s touch screen.

If you are buying an open box laptop or purchasing one from an individual directly, it is imperative that you run InjuredPixels on that computer before you make your purchase. You do not have to be an administrator on the computer in order to run the application. This is because there is no installation needed. InjuredPixels is a standalone application that runs independently on any PC and uninstallation is as simple as dropping it in the trashcan.

About to purchase a bundle that comes with multiple monitors? No worries! InjuredPixels has multi-monitor support so that you can check them all before you purchase or during the warranty period.

Don’t be that guy that makes the negligent mistake of not checking your products before and after you buy them. Download InjuredPixels and make sure that you don’t end up wasting hundreds and thousands of dollars.