{"id":313,"date":"2008-05-16T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-05-16T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:19:21","slug":"sysinternals-zoomit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2008\/05\/sysinternals-zoomit\/","title":{"rendered":"SysInternals ZoomIt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you&#8217;re going to pick up from conference presentations&#8230;&#160; While I&#8217;m certainly not the first to pick up on this great utility the Windows SysInternals group has released a handy utility called <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb897434.aspx\">ZoomIt v1.8<\/a>.&#160; This utility allows you to use a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-1, by default) to automatically zoom in on the screen.&#160; You can then use the mouse to pan around and the left mouse button to annotate the screen.&#160; Best of all, it runs as a simple executable (which is 44KB in size) &#8211; no need for startup programs, installers, and other annoying software stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this can be useful for presenters.&#160; When showing code samples or UI elements on a projector (even at relatively low resolutions), it can be helpful to expand upon a section of the screen.&#160; I have also found it useful on my own computer.&#160; I run two monitors: One is running at 1680 x 1050 (horizontal), and the other is running in a vertical 1280 x 1024.&#160; It can be useful to zoom in on sections of web pages with small fonts.&#160; I&#8217;m sure it will be more useful as I get older, as well.&#160; Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb897434.aspx\">DisplayFusion<\/a> (which I wrote about in a previous post titled <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=281\">Managing Multiple Monitors on Windows Vista<\/a>) , it really provides some useful capabilities.&#160; Good luck, and feel free to post your reviews\/hints here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you&#8217;re going to pick up from conference presentations&#8230;&#160; While I&#8217;m certainly not the first to pick up on this great utility the Windows SysInternals group has released a handy utility called ZoomIt v1.8.&#160; This utility allows you to use a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-1, by default) to automatically zoom in on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-it-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}