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>
\n> MD,
\n>
\n> nVidia has some pretty neat zooming functions.
\n>
\n> If you don't want to zoom the entire desktop, there's a zoom window
\n> option -- which will magnify just an area, with no spanning (you can
\n> actually combine them, and have a magnifying glass on a zommed
\n> desktop - with spanning; so, you can get up to 13x magnification).
\n>
\n> I had a typo when I said 16x; it's 10x. You can get up to 13x by
\n> having a zooming window at 10x, and desktop magnified by 30%.
\n>
\n> The zommed window is resizable and movable. The content being
\n> displayed can be chosen in different ways.
\n>
\n> You can move the window over an area and it will act as a magnifying
\n> glass. The window becomes transparent while in motion. The contents
\n> being magnified that way are static, like a snapshot.
\n>
\n> You can also display an area centered on the cursor position. The
\n> zooming window would be static somewhere in the screen, and it would
\n> display the area where your cursor is. One difference between this
\n> and the magnfying glass is that the contents are not static. You can
\n> therefore zoom a video and watch it (with a refresh rate of up to 30
\n> fps). This works great if you want to zoom a video widow that would
\n> look real tiny on 3820 x 2400, like youtube -- whose full screen
\n> sucks big time because it's Flash.
\n>
\n> There is also an option they call "fixed frame;" which is like the
\n> cursor one, but you frame the area you want to magnify, and that's
\n> what gets displayed in the zoom window. You can also watch videos
\n> that way.
\n>
\n> You can have hot-keys set up for both desktop and window zooming.
\n>
\n> CP
\n>
\n> --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "educationk12" <educationk12@>
\n> wrote:
\n> >
\n> > CP,
\n> >
\n> > I got your email and I thought I'd ask this group to see if they
\n> have
\n> > been having problems with spam.
\n> >
\n> > Has anybody on here seen an increase in spam after providing your
\n> > email address to this forum? I have a decent spam catcher, so I
\n> guess
\n> > I wouldn't know if this forum has caused more spam to occur onto my
\n> > own email account.
\n> >
\n> > It seems the nVidia Desktop Manager's zoom feature makes my monitor
\n> go
\n> > into spanning mode. I assume it is going from 1 pixel to a 4x4
\n> > situation, which I think is different than what Vista is suppose to
\n> do
\n> > but I could be wrong. I'm not too crazy about spanning, however I
\n> > didn't know this feature existed so thank you for sharing.
\n> >
\n> > Is there a way to zoom just a certain part of the screen as if you
\n> had
\n> > a real magnifying glass?
\n> >
\n> > MD
\n> >
\n> >
\n> >
\n> > --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "Carlos de la Puente"
\n> > <delapuente.carlos@> wrote:
\n> > >
\n> > > nVidia's Desktop Manager has a magnifier glass (up to 16x).
\n> Judging
\n> > > by the quality of the magnified image, it seems it does vector-
\n> based
\n> > > scaling.
\n> > >
\n> > > CP
\n> > >
\n> > > --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "educationk12"
\n> <educationk12@>
\n> > > wrote:
\n> > > >
\n> > > > This looks promising! I was thinking the same thing the other
\n> > > > day...like a real portable magnifying glass. I imagine there
\n> might
\n> > > be
\n> > > > some software programs out there that do this.
\n> > > >
\n> > > > Appears the latest ATI card that is to be released January 22nd
\n> has
\n> > > > beaten the 8800 card in all the tests, although the site that
\n> tested
\n> > > > it is in question. Which for me I am thinking that might get
\n> Nvidia
\n> > > to
\n> > > > hurry up and release the rest of their G80 lineup/Quadro
\n> DirectX10
\n> > > > cards. ATI R600
\n> > > >
\n> > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36642
\n> > > >
\n> > > > MD
\n> > > >
\n> > > >
\n> > > >
\n> > > > --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "angryazul" <brian@> wrote:
\n> > > > >
\n> > > > > Thanks for all the advice re: my eyesight and the T221. I
\n> still
\n> > > > > haven't found one (or a vp2290b) in Manhattan that I could see
\n> > > > > firsthand, so if someone does know of one, I would appreciate
\n> > > seeing
\n> > > > > it very much.
\n> > > > >
\n> > > > > I was just reading about the magnification tool in Vista
\n> which is
\n> > > > > rather unremarkable except, when used with XAML apps, will do
\n> > > > > vector-based scaling. On the surface, this seems very well
\n> > > done. I
\n> > > > > would like it even more if would seamlessly blend the zoomed
\n> area
\n> > > back
\n> > > > > into the regular desktop--as if there were a convex bubble in
\n> the
\n> > > > > screen that would move with your cursor. But this at least
\n> is a
\n> > > start:
\n> > > > >
\n> > > > > http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/04/04/568648.aspx
\n> > > > >
\n> > > >
\n> > >
\n> >
\n>