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Zoom It is an on-screen magnifier that's always available to give you a closer look at whatever you're doing on your Mac. The Zoom It magnifying loupe stays at your fingertips via simple keyboard shortcuts, but it never interferes with your work or stops you from using all the shortcuts and commands you're used to.
You can customize Zoom It shortcuts, keep the loupe on-screen, or just show it for a moment when you need it. The loupe moves naturally, centered over your cursor, and you can make it round, rectangular, big, or small, and zoom its magnification level up to 500%.
You can customize Zoom It shortcuts, keep the loupe on-screen, or just show it for a moment when you need it. The loupe moves naturally, centered over your cursor, and you can make it round, rectangular, big, or small, and zoom its magnification level up to 500%.
What's New
Version 1.1:
- Larger loupe available.
- Toggle between round and rectangular loupes with a single keyboard shortcut.
- Activate the welcome screen from your menu bar.
- Restore default keyboard shortcuts with one click.
- Set Zoom It to start up on system startup from the Settings menu.
- Zoom It's screenshot file saving tool automatically remembers the location where you stored your last screenshot.
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- 64-bit processor
Zoom It User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:986 |
| Version Downloads:572 |
| Type:Utilities : Optimizers |
| License:Commercial |
| Date:16 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $0.99 |
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Zoom It is an on-screen magnifier that's always available to give you a closer look at whatever you're doing on your Mac. The Zoom It magnifying loupe stays at your fingertips via simple keyboard shortcuts, but it never interferes with your work or stops you from using all the shortcuts and commands you're used to.
You can customize Zoom It shortcuts, keep the loupe on-screen, or just show it for a moment when you need it. The loupe moves naturally, centered over your cursor, and you can make it round, rectangular, big, or small, and zoom its magnification level up to 500%.
With Zoom It you can:
You can customize Zoom It shortcuts, keep the loupe on-screen, or just show it for a moment when you need it. The loupe moves naturally, centered over your cursor, and you can make it round, rectangular, big, or small, and zoom its magnification level up to 500%.
With Zoom It you can:
- Set the app to open when you start your Mac so that the magnifying loupe is always available but stays hidden until you want to use it.
- Use all of your usual keyboard shortcuts, trackpad controls, and mouse clicks at the same time as the loupe.
- Show the loupe temporarily with a simple keyboard shortcut.
- Keep the temporary loupe on-screen just by holding the Z key, and make it disappear by simply releasing the key.
- Use a simple shortcut to make the loupe stay on-screen permanently, without holding the Z key.
- Click, type, and select inside the magnified area.
- Choose between a round or rectangular loupe.
- Quickly change the size of the loupe.
- Easily adjust the amount of magnification, up to 500%
- Customize keyboard shortcuts for all Zoom It functions.
- Take a screenshot of what the Zoom It loupe is showing.
- Designers who need a closer look at layout and design elements, palettes, and tools.
- People who wear reading glasses or find themselves straining to see small elements on-screen.
- Project collaborators who need to send each other detailed screenshots.
- Presenters who want to highlight specific areas of an on-screen presentation for an audience.
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Enkaytee reviewed on 05 Mar 2012
OK - at startup, there's vert little memory use, but show the loupe a few times, and boy, does it start to hog...
When the loupe is visible, memory use rises, but it doesn't seem to fall back greacefully when 'idle' as far is i can see, staying with an average 'load' of around 500MB. It then seems to 'add' to that with subsequent uses, if that makes sens...
I reached over 1GB after just a few sessions...
I want to like this, and suppose at 59p I feel bad at complaining, but it's not really usable for me at the moment...
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"As far as we know, it usually happens when one uses the biggest - or one smaller - loupe with a magnification of 150%"
Stick to lower sized loupes, or a magnification other than 150% and things seem much more stable...
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Drdul reviewed on 18 Feb 2012
I took off half a star because the menubar icon is coloured (I changed that right away, but it's a pain to have to hack the app every time there's a new version). I contacted the dev about this who said that a monochrome icon has been a popular request, so I expect I won't have to be hacking too many more versions.
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it's important to keep "use scroll wheel with modifier keys to zoom" checked with a shortcut -- i use Control. the reason i say this is because when you option-command-8, use Control to zoom in and out in the Zoom box if at appears nothing is happening, or command-option-(-) or command-option-(=). more importantly, for the "enable temporary zoom (control-option)" to work right, it's command-option-8 to turn the Zoom box on, then control-zoom all the way out, then control-option will make the window appear only while you hold down those keys.
needless to say, bringing up the "temporary-zoom" box takes some practice. but the "Zoom window" box is as simple as option-command-8 and then zooming in or out with the method you choose for zooming in or out.
the one big drawback to this bit of wit is once you do check the "Zoom in window" check box, you lose the ability for zoom options -- command-option-(=) and command-option-(-) or control-up and control-down -- to zoom the entire screen -- those keyboard commands will now only zoom the Zoom box.
if anyone knows how i can use the Zoom box and still have the full screen zoom at the same time, please let me know.
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Lvdoc reviewed on 14 Nov 2011
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