Magnifying Glass Pro 1.5Comments on:

By: Elizabeth myers

Elizabeth myers — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:59:42 +0000

can you please help us figure out how we can unzipp the games.

thank you
Elizabeth Myers

By: Fubar

Fubar — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:37:41 +0000

#100, busso, instead of repeatedly complaining about an issue which appears to be very uncommon, why don’t you just use the hotkey or the tray icon context menu?

By: busso

busso — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:25:08 +0000

The author needs to re-think the mouse shaking part of this
program cause on my sys it DOESN’T WORK

By: s.k.

s.k. — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:19:48 +0000

I’ve recently developed slight distortion in my close-up vision which makes using the screen difficult – I fnd this program very useful, it magnifies clearly and even lets me work on photographs without the need for strong magnifying lenses.
I think this is going to prove a very useful add-on.

By: Fubar

Fubar — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:25:40 +0000

#85, John, you raise several issues in your post. I didn’t have any problems using Fixed and Fixed Elusive with Glass Preview. With Full Screen and Glass Preview, the display kept refreshing in an unusual fashion, but I was able to turn off Glass Preview (I doubt that it matters, but I had Magnifying Glass Pro’s priority set to Below Normal). I suspect your system may have run out of available compute. “Mouse clicks pass through Glass” is primarily for semi-transparent glass (you can use it with opaque glass, but it’s a little strange). As for your primary question, what you want is not only a fixed glass, but the magnified area to be a fixed location. Magnifying Glass Pro won’t do that. Long ago, I suggested to Worker’s Collection, a way to do what you want. My purpose was to enable enlarging the UI of non-resizable applications. It would involve using Auto-Switch to fix a glass over an application. The aspect ratio would be the same as the application, the size would be determined by the magnification, and the magnified area would be the application’s window. Anyway, Worker’s Collection never implemented that (hey, I didn’t even ask for remuneration).

By: flyingbanana

flyingbanana — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:41:00 +0000

it’s HUGE!!! and fun too :D
love the manual zoom! try zoom to atomic level :D

By: Bethany

Bethany — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:13:22 +0000

I downloaded and installed it with no problems but haven’t yet had a chance to play with it.

My friend who will probably never post here has played with it for hours and positively loves it. The end of her nose will never be the same again. Thanks guys,

By: Fubar

Fubar — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:51:34 +0000

#78, Kiril Kanev, you should look at DefenseWall’s logs. I won’t use it, because it blocks all sorts of necessary activity, based merely on the fact that some malware also does the same activity. With bad security software, the cure is worse than the disease.

#87, Richard van Buren, when security software gives false positives, it’s crappy. Any program or process which monitors keystrokes and accesses the Internet could be flagged as potentially dangerous. Let’s say you’re a self-proclaimed computer expert. What good would such an alert be? You would have to decide whether the program was safe or not, based on nothing. You would have to analyze the program’s Internet traffic (which could be exceedingly difficult if it’s not human-readable, or if it is, but uses even a very simple code or cypher to conceal sensitive private data, such as credit card numbers, etc.) In short, such a piece of security software would be doing nothing useful, leaving all the work up to you. I prefer to use security software put out by corporations which have teams of security experts who examine programs, and cooperate with others in the security community, and send out frequent updates so that I don’t have to deal with false positives. Good packages still use heuristics, but know about safe applications. Some of my security software does occasionally pester me with some prompts, but it doesn’t claim that the requested action is inherently or probably safe or unsafe, and I generally allow it so that the application will function, unless I know that the requested action is unnecessary or undesirable. If I have any concerns, I check the security logs. The key here is that I choose packages which are sophisticated enough to make the vast majority of security decisions on their own, like they’re supposed to and which I paid for them to do, and request user intervention as little as possible.

By: larry

larry — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:51:10 +0000

Another program that runs in the background (14.1MB RAM)at startup. Need yesterday InControl program to stop it before I can uninstall. Did not get yesterday InControl program as the GOTD site was down last night.

By: brendag4

brendag4 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:05:36 +0000

I have only tried the program a little bit. I like how it works better than the one that comes with Windows XP. Not sure if there is a way to change it but the XP version puts a narrow rectangle the top of the screen that shows a magnified view of what your cursor is pointing at. I think this view is incredibly annoying. The GAOTD program lets you move a box around the screen as if it were a magnifying glass. That just seems more natural to me.

Think I will go put this on the other computer too… :-)

I don’t know why people are commenting on having problems with registering the giveaway… All I had to do was activate it and install.. just like normal. I did not have to enter in a registeration #. Check the “about” screen, and it is registered.

#87…thanks for your comment. That let me know the prob was on my end. I downloaded the newest version of Opera to see if it would help my problem. (I had 9.21, the new one is 9.25) The GAOTD site is now working for me :-)