Comments on: Quick Tip: Zoom In On Anything, Anywhere

By: Vitor

Vitor — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:59:36 +0000

There’s also a way to do it in a mouse without scrollwheel just do:
opt+cmd and + or - (in the keypad works too)

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:48:42 +0000

Cool. Amazing how much magnification is built in to the zoom function.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:04:33 +0000

@ Lee: Not sure if I’ve had the same issue. I use my MBP at work and hook it up to two monitors via a DualHead 2 Go. It actually works really well.

By: Honza

Honza — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:38:35 +0000

It isn’t finder zooming. It’s more like a hardware zoom, but I’m not entirely sure to what extent.

By: Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:29:37 +0000

Now if we can just figure out why the centering gets loused up in some (not all) dual monitor setups. On my quad G5 at work, I have a 23″ Cinema Display and an old 15″ Studio Display adapted with an ADC to DVI converter. Centering stays just fine there. At home with my MacBook Pro and a 17″ VGA LCD adapted to the MBP’s DVI output, things get a little weird. It’s fine if I’m only using the laptop screen, but just adding the second monitor and–well, I don’t really know how to describe it. If it’s happened to you, you know what I’m talking about.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:53:55 +0000

@ Tim & Josh:

Thankfully I’m not developing for IE Mac - I’m running the IE wonder twins (6&7) in Parallels. If I was still working with IE Mac I think I’d be bald and insane by now!

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:31:26 +0000

You’re a day late. I literally did this YESTERDAY by accident and had no idea how to turn off the zoom. Thankfully I had quicksilver and could call up system preferences, I turned off assistive devices and it un-zoomed, then turned it back on. I still didn’t know whch control it was that was doing it

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:23:24 +0000

If you’re using a MacBook or MacBook Pro (and I believe the G5 PowerBooks too), then you don’t even need a mouse to use the zoom feature.

Simply hold down control and use the two-finger scroll functionality on the touchpad. Works a treat ^_^

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:15:11 +0000

@Tim: Not sure if Matt was specifically saying Mac IE. The zoom should still work if you’ve got Windows IE fired up in Parallels or Fusion.

By: Tim Hettler

Tim Hettler — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:12:30 +0000

Someone’s still developing for Explorer Mac? You poor soul…