It is sometimes quite handy to have a screen magnifier at hand to magnify part of the computer screen. This can be useful for reading small text on websites or for viewing images in greater detail. You might say that such functions, to increase the text size and to zoom into images already exists in those programs and while I have to agree with that it is sometimes faster and easier to use a screen magnifier.
Screen Magnifiers are also very handy for presentations, be it Powerpoint presentations or videocasts that you want to upload to a video portal or your website afterwards. One of the best screen magnifiers that I tested is called Virtual Magnifying Glass available on Sourceforge. The magnifier can be started with a keyboard shortcut and moved around with the mouse. The mouse wheel is used to zoom in and out of the current position.
The dimensions of the magnifier can be defined in the options, they range from 64 pixels in width and height to 1600 pixels in each. Both width and height have independent settings. The magnification can be set to a default value between 1x and 16x as well but as I stated earlier it is possible to change that value on the fly.
On the downside, it is not possible to scroll when in magnifying mode. Virtual Magnifying Glass is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
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and compared to zoomit, what’s better?
The main difference between the two is that Zoomit always zooms into the full screen while Virtual Magnifying Glass can do that as well for a resolution of up to 1600 pixels in width.
They tend to use the same amount of memory. My guess is that Zoomit is probably a good choice for presentations while the tool mentioned in this article is better for casual uses, a quick zoom into a part of the screen.
I like this one. I find it useful for reading captcha’s.