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DESCRIPTION
megazoomer brings full-screen windows to the Mac. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again. Only works for Cocoa apps.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.4.1:
  • more compatibility fixes - switching windows works in terminal while zoomed
  • megazoomer no longer prints warning messages on the console each time an app opens
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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Developer:Ian Henderson
Downloads:32,279
  - Version d/l:26,645
Utilities:Desktop
License:Free
Date:17 Jul 2006
Platform:PPC/Intel

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Oct 29 2009

ANNABUL  By downloading the megazoomer (and maybe by forgetting to close skype application) my Mac is blocked :( I can't shut it down! and while I am trying to delete the megazoomer, from trash or from downloads or applications folder it shows a code error-61! I can't neither delete skype! Windows with deleting progress are showing up, but not progress in deletion.

please advise how to solve this problem?!!! anyone clues?  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Aug 27 2008

POM  I fixed up an Intel ready build of megazoomer. http://www.paperplanes.de/files/megazoomer.zip

Can't say if it works on PPC machines (or 10.4 for that matter), but it should.  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Dec 6 2008

SESQUIPEDALIAN  Thanks for that! This is just what I was looking for.  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Feb 4 2008

MACLOVIN  Doesn't work on Leopard! 10.5.1 on a 2.16 gHz Macbook with all the latest upgrades. Please make it work (if possible)! I miss it!  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jan 26 2007
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HENRIKTEKNIK  I would love it if I could press Command-Enter (on numerical keyboard) as well. I.e. not only Return key on the qwerty keuboard.

Otherwise, nice application! Thanks!  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Dec 5 2006

STEPFEN  This product is the main source of trouble for AppleScript Error... I hope the developer can resolve the problem as I like this program very much till it clashes with other programs.  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jul 31 2006
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NED RAVINE  This app COULD be cool if it hadn't so many bugs especially when using it in Safari.

If you use this app and try to use tabs graphical glitches appear very, very often!:/  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jul 25 2006
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CS101  Works ok, but display glitches when using Terminall.app leaves sections of the screen un-rendered on my TiBook (1280x854).  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jul 17 2006

SHRIZZA  This is a pretty nifty little hack.

How about an alternate version (or alternate key combo) which instead uses the built-in Universal Access zoom feature so that all the contents of the window (such as text) are scaled up instead of remaining the same size. It's understandable that, were this even possible, you'd probably end up with some unused screen space unless the window dimensions match your display's ratio.  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jul 17 2006

SHRIZZA  Just wanted to also suggest that perhaps an alternate method like this could get around the requirement that the window in question belong to a Cocoa app?  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jul 22 2006

IANH  Nah, the Cocoa restriction has to do with how I'm loading the code into the application in the first place. Injecting code into Carbon apps is much more of a pain.  
(Version 0.4.1)

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Jul 10 2006
*****

HAPLO  Wow, this is pretty godly, especially if you're on a laptop. It lets me fully view documents that don't scale well in preview or maximize my screen space in camino. It also switches modes nicely and retains the functionality of the menu bar. It does disable the dock though, but typically if you're using it you'd command+tab or else you'd need to un-fullscreen in order to open a new app anyway.

However, this in addition to quicksilver really makes life easy.  
(Version 0.4)

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Jul 6 2006

BILLYFUSTER  Along with some previous reviewers, I experienced conflicts between megazoomer and VLC's full screen mode and some system instability. This new version fixes the VLC problems for me, and so far there aren't problems with other apps. The developer's list of changes makes it sound like he has managed to implement lots of fixes.   
(Version 0.4)

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