In one of my previous posts (Full screen on OS X) I have written about Megazoomer, a very useful piece of software that lets you maximise your window to a full screen size.
Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire display. Megazoomer was only available for PPC platform, but now there is also the univesal binary. See details and download from Ian Henderson’s website.
Also, thanks to Eddie for pointing out something that I have completely forgotten to write about – OS X zoom feature. From about 10.4.7 or 10.4.8 Apple silently introduced a new feature to Mac OS X – screen zoom.
Just hold the Control key down and scroll your mouse wheel up, and your screen will zoom in. Scrolling the wheel down will zoom out. On Mac notebooks you can hold the Control key down and scroll the trackpad with two fingers (what’s this called – twin-scroll?) to achieve the same.
There are a few ways to increase text size on Mac, but to zoom in the graphics, e.g. small image on the website, this is just perfect solution.
I think it’s actually Ctrl+Opt+Command+Scroll, but yeah, it works wonders.
I think it’s actually Ctrl+Opt+Command, scroll.
Opt+Command Scroll works for me…but not Ctrl+Opt+Command or just Ctrl…
It depends on what one wants to zoom in on:
It is: just the Control key + scroll mouse wheel up, and the entire screen will zoom in. Scrolling the wheel down will zoom out. On Mac notebooks one can hold the Control key down and scroll trackpad with 2 fingers to “scroll.” (I believe the “jaggies” will be fixed in the much anticipated Leopard.)
Here is another method for zooming whole screen:
Option-Command-8=Turn on Zoom
Option-Command-+ (plus)=Zoom in
Option-Command– (minus)=Zoom out
Using the keys allows one to zoom to the most comfortable level and leave it that way with out having to scroll…
To enlarge only font size in some apps, most notably browsers, one can Ctrl-Opt-Command, scroll.
And Opt-Command (at least in FireFox) will flip through previous web sites visited. A fast “back” or “forward” if you will. Not tested in other apps.
Control key + scroll mouse works for me …