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Computer Glasses - 2.1.0

Magnifies a portion of the screen.

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All Time:	(4.8)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.1.0
Release Date:	2009-02-01
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,428
Downloads (all versions):	9,908

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Product Description:

Computer Glasses lets you magnify a portion of the screen to read fine print or magnify an image. When you open Computer Glasses, you see a red circle. Click on the circle (magnifier) and drag it over the area to be magnified. As you drag the magnifier, you will see crosshairs. When you release the mouse, the area inside the area within the circle will be magnified. A small control panel lets you turn the magnifier on/off, select the magnifier shape (Rectangle or Circle), change the magnifier size (slider), and change the magnification (Slight, Medium, Larger and Largest). You can shrink the Control Panel, move it out of the way on the desktop or minimize it to the Dock. You can close Computer Glasses by clicking on the Control Panel's (red) close button. Control Panel settings and location are saved between sessions. Magnifier location is saved between sessions and between Hide/Show views.

What's new in this version:

Version 2.1.0 tolerates older and slower computers while taking advantage of the speed of newer and faster computers.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

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Computer Glasses - cool - Version: 2.0.0, 12/9/2008 05:28AM PST

pevasprings

Works great. Very useful to enlarge only a portion of the screen without having other parts of the screen disappear out of sight due to total enlargement of the screen. I keep this one in the Dock. Just wish the maximum size of the enlarged area could be made bigger especially in the rectangular mode and the magnification also work via a slider. Thanks, nice and simple utility.

More nice but not needed - Version: 1.3.0, 3/14/2007 03:39PM PST

(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)

mcalmus

In addition to Argyll's tip which only works in later versions of 10.4, zooming with the keyboard has been in OS X since version 10.2 (maybe even 10.1...I can't remember for sure). After using the Universal Access preference pane or the command-option-8 keyboard shortcut to turn the feature on, users can zoom in and out using command-option-= (I usually think of it as plus) for zooming in and command-option-minus for zooming out. The zoom follows the mouse cursor and can be used variably up to (I think) 20 times magnification. There are several options in the preference pane for controlling aspects of the zoom as well.

Computer Glasses is nice, but I just can't think of a situation where it would be more useful than the built-in zoom other than possibly for a screen shot where the whole screen was wanted.

Great for my needs! - Version: 1.2.0, 1/15/2007 12:40AM PST

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hswinnen

As a composer/arranger I have to setup big scores, up to 64 staves per page. So this will sometimes reduce the music down under 40 %. For fine print and to clean up some collisions this is a big help. Moreover for my eyes are getting touched by a thrombosis.
Especially the new rectangle in this version is very welcome.
Thank you very much!