Peter Furzer wrote: > She is 82 and has difficulty seeing the FROM and TO email addresses because > they are so small.
Here are my notes for help with vision problems. Look at Coloristic - http://www.bubblepop.com/coloristic/ This is a mouse over magnification program. $12 Also, this link provides a lot of useful information on the Mac options, used with, for example a PC mouse with a wheel.... wheel increases/decreases magnification. http://www.low-vision.org/index.php?dispage=77 If you register for a free Apple Developer account, http://developer.apple.com/, and download the Xcode development tools that come with it, you'll get a very good, free magnifying app called Pixie. Pixie puts a magnified window (you select the magnification level) on your Desktop. Pixie's default behavior is to follow the cursor, providing a magnified window of wherever the cursor happens to be. If you dig into the preferences, you can also make the window always float on top of all others. Let me add that you can change the size of the Pixie window, too. Its default size is adequate for many purpose but not ideal for reading text. If you would like a larger window, you can increase the size by modifying Pixie's .plist file--and that you can do with the Property List Editor, another of the free tools you get with that developer's account. The keys to modify in com.apple.Pixie.plist (it will be in your home directory after you've run Pixie once, ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Pixie.plist) are SourceHeight SourceWidth Change the numbers from 48 (which appears to equate to approximately 144 pixels) to something larger. There's probably an upper limit, but I don't know what it is. (you can just grab the corner of the Pixie window to resize it. Much easier that way.) These suggestion were posted on the MacOSXHints forum: <http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=86641> -- Diane YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
