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why not just Cmd Opt 8 then Cmd Opt + or Cmd Opt -
it's long time feature, but just integrated better

Apple is too good to us. Slow down there! We can only handle so much.

These are the little things that make me love Apple.

I feel sorry watching my friends with Dells as they wrestle with their crippled Windows OS......nah not really!

This has actually been a standard feature in some software (Sibelius) for awhile. Great to see it implemented systemwide. But I wish you could tie specific keystrokes to specific magnifications like Pagemaker (RIP) used to do.

the trick also works on MacBooks .. press Ctrl and use 2 fingers on the trackpad

You can do it in 10.4.7 good news for those who didn't know.

badass!

Have been using this for a little while since the last time MDN told us. Powerbook users can also use the Ctrl and 2 fingers on the track-pad for zooming in and out.

I accidentally came across this when I got my wireless mighty mouse. It's awesome.

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My Core 2 Duo iMac was able to do this right out of the box. I believe it was using 10.4.6 or 10.4.7.
This isn't anything new!!!

I discovered this feature some time ago - and yes it's pretty cool. Altho it makes me wonder if Leopard's rumored scalable GUI means that this function wouldn't show large pixels - but just perfect close ups. That's only possible with vectors.

On a sidenote, I wish that Apple could implement that 10 years old feature from Emagic (Logic Audio, now belongs to Apple) where you speed up scrolling by simply pressing the shift key. Really nice feature and I've never seen it elsewhere.

Evan, I remember some guy from Emagic told me about this feat. Guess what - Apple implemented it. Just press the alt. -key whilst scrolling (by pressing those tiny scroll arrows).

See? Same feature, different combo.

That's a pretty cool feature.

Not trying to start a flame war, but what integrated (non-third party) features does any version of Windows has that makes it more accessible to the handicapped? Just curious.

SWEET to learn about the alt key accelerating scrolling!!!
Thanks, perdita.

Very cool - my MacBook Pro didn't do this before the 10.4.8 update - I tried after seeing someone do it on a MacBook.

This has a very different feel than the old command-option-plus approach; this way is far more fluid and visually stunning.

why not just shift+cmd+7+option+z ?

This scoll-zoom was ON, when I rebooted, with what looked like a 360x200pixel rectangle centered around my mouse. I thought it was my first bug with a point release, ever. Of course, I looked at my Prefs settings to see what had happened, and lo and behold, the scroll-zoom was ON, and my mouse settings had reverted to default, as the scrolling and mousing was slower than my normal speed.

Thanks for the tip. I use my Griffin Powermate (knob) to zoom. It's a lot of fun, but mainly a toy. This is pretty sweet.

Very Cool!!!
It's the little things in life that make one smile

Do you have to have a Mighty Mouse to access this feature? I have a Logitech MX510 (best mouse I've ever used BTW) but I don't see anything in the Mouse prefs to enable this.

That's zoom not zune

JadisOne, windows has some crappy magnifying program which doesn't magnify the whole lot but just mirrors what you're seeing closer up in a little bar at the top of the screen. If you want to see anything in it you have to make it take up a lot of room, and then theres no room for your actual apps. Crap. Just like windows. suitable, isn't it?

Oh and does anyone know why when my external monitor is set to a different resolution to my iBooks LCD I can't move the cursor above about halfway up the screen? Zooming works fine if i turn the CRTs resolution down, but i like lots of real estate.

ndelc: I have a Kensington Iridio and this feature was on by default when I upped to 4.8.

It's kind of cool, but what's the point?

THIS HAS BEEN POSSIBLE SINCE THE LAST VERSION

Hmmm...I was doing it wrong, thinking it was the same old key combo (cmd option) and the scroll wheel. It works using just control and the scroll wheel but it still doesn't show up in the mouse prefs. Ampar, does it show up in your prefs?

It was working great with Mighty Mouse then it stoped working. Can't egt it working again, even after restart.

This is nice and all but how about a useful mouse function like being able to assign keyboard commands to right click? We still have to use shareware to be able to do this most basic of functions.

ndelc: Yes it does. And it let's you change the key.

It works! Sweeeet! Duuuud! Sweeeet!

And the other one that's sweet for when designes insist on having microscopic sized text..is Command and + to increase font sizes for the whole page.

So much for all the anti-Apple-spinsters who always insist that OSX updates are just to fix securoty flaws. It all just gets better and better.

Vista can't see the tail lights of OSX anymore...

And I just thought my mouse was weirding out when it started doing that -- usually when I've been using it a lot; I'll have trouble with the buttons too. Blowing into the scroll ball clears it up, so it probably means time for a cleaning...

So, just like lots of Windows applications then...

Wonder why so many Mac fanboys feel it necessary to bash Windows. Seems if it were so inferior to OSX then no mention would be needed. It would just be that obvious. I'm a mac -user AND a windows user, they both have VERY irritating qualities about them...so leave it at that and stop acting like insecure little bitches that need to convince themselves that their OS is better than such and such's OS.

Ok.

FWIW, Windows user have enjoyed zoom scroll wheel functionality since the stone age. Not just "blow up the screen size" zoom but real zoom.