ringing your portable life into focus
Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable is the handy Virtual Magnifying Glass utility packaged in PortableApps.com Format so you can easily use a screen magnifier on any PC you use.
Features
Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable is a full-featured screen magnifying glass that allows you to zoom in on an area of the screen for better readability. It's also handy for design work. With a variable zoom (1-20x), configurable size, hot-key support (CTRL-ALT-e) and lots of other great features, it's a great addition to any portable arsenal.
System requirements:
- Microsoft® Windows® Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98 or 95
- or a UNIX system running X11 (any Linux Distribution, FreeBSD, etc)
- or Mac OS X 10.4 or superior
- 800x600 or higher screen resolution and at least 16-bit colors recommended
- A good display adapter and CPU recommended for smooth performance
- Multiple-display systems are supported on Windows 98/ME, Windows NT4/2000/XP
- Multiple-display systems are not supported on Windows 95 (Magnifying Glass will be run in the primary display only)
- On multiple-display systems, the magnifying glass may not display at the correct location if the monitors have a vertical offset between them.
Two actual screenshots:
Latest Features:
- New, much improved dynamic mode for Windows 2000+! No longer requires DirectX or a special video card.
- New, improved Mac OS X version, much smaller, no longer requires Qt.
- Show the center pixel's RGB values, in both decimal and hexadecimal. Copy it with Ctrl+C
- Multi-monitor support
- Lens height and width can have any size
- Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor
- Esc key closes magnifier window, but it remains on systray. Q key closes the software
- Variable scale factor from 1x to 32x
- New configuration dialog to choose the plugin, Hotkey and other settings
Download Details
- Publisher: linktohow.blogspot.com and the Virtual Magnifying Glass Team
- Date updated: 2010-09-22
- System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
- Source Code: Launcher (included), Virtual Magnifying Glass source
