[Review] Magnifying Glass Pro. By Ashraf-August 10, 2010-42 comments Email article Print article. Try comparing it to Magnifying Pro, in full screen mode. Hdfury3 Manual. Magnifying Glass Pro is a flexible full screen zooming utility that magnifies portions of the screen under your mouse cursor or caret. This desktop magnifying.
@: Fubar, our most enthusiastic fan of dotTech, also mentioned in his GOTD critique today that the Microsoft mouse comes with a magnifier. As anyone who has used one knows, it does have an extremely irritating habit in Vista of switching Aero off and on again before taking effect. This can last 5 to 7 seconds, which, while staring at a blank flickering monitor, seems like a lifetime. It should be noted that the cursor stays firmly planted in the middle of the magnified field as well.
There are many things to like about that mouse, but those are two that try one’s patience. Much like reading Fubar. To prove it, I just closed mine, and started it manually ok. If you make a shortcut to – “C: Program Files MagniGlassPro MagniGlassPro.exe” that will do what you want. (I am using XP, so your shortcut may differ slightly) There is an option in the program that you can set, to tell it not to start with windows. HOWEVER, I recommend that you keep it running all the time, as it uses zero CPU.
And it just has an icon in the Sys Tray, which you hardly notice. Have you tried my shortcut for showing/hiding it – Ctrl + Windows key. PS Ashraf, I just noticed there is an option under Misc, to hide the mouse cursor •. Hey Ashraf, Followup on Javascript problem – I think the white misting part may only be visible on my pc, as I’ve set preferences to give me pages with a grey background to help minimise glare and sore eyes. On the normal white background the ‘white-misting’ effect probably wouldn’t be visible. However the images still don’t work. Tried in Google Chrome which is setup normally and seems not to accept any global user-changes.
So, your pages show up with their white background. When I click on a screenshot the page goes very dark all over while it loads the larger image.
Then the screenshot appears. Afterwards the page reverts to white again. I just came across a program called OneLoupe for zooming that supports all versions of windows (98 through 7). You can find it at Also for zooming images in Firefox you will find ZoomFox superior to Image Zoom; at least in my use it has been. It opens the image in a new tab to zoom on to your hearts content.
To comment on Ozzie said about Image Zoom making images look blurred; that is most likely because of low resolution and nothing can fix a low resolution image unless it is CPU intensive and interpolates the image to try to create resolution which most people would not want as it would likely bog down your computer. Thanks Asraf as always for an excellent review. Ashraf, I’m using IE 7. I tested it on another site and it worked fine. Then I tried this page in Firefox, and when I clicked on a screenshot it kind of flicked to an isolated image and the cursor showed a + or – sign for enlargement/reduction.