NYT’s Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass

Lst week, the Gadgetwise Blogat the NY Times offered this Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass.

Tired of squinting at tiny type the screen all day? In Windows Vista, you can bump up the font size — right-click on the desktop, select Personalize and click on “Adjust font size.” Once the “DPI Scaling” window comes up (probably after a Vista security alert), select the larger “120 dpi” setting and click OK. Illustrated instructions are here.

On a Mac OS X Leopard system, you can increase the size of type on desktop icons by going to the View menu to Show View Options; the text size controls are there. Mac users can zoom in on the screen by pressing the Option-Command-plus (+) keys; pressing Command-Option-minus (-) zooms out. Pressing the Command key and either the plus or minus keys increases the size of the text in certain Mac programs like Mail and Safari.

It’s very useful. I did it myself as soon as I brought my new Vista machine in the house last year.

Tags: font, mac os, magnifying glass, ny times, size, text, tip, Vista, windows

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