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- archurban, on 10/12/2007, -13/+44it's not really. it was come with wireless mighty mouse first. I have used it, enjoyed it for 2 months now. but it's glad to see mac os x 10.4.8 brings for wired mouse, too.
- pies, on 10/12/2007, -7/+34Except Archurban, you're all very weird people.
- chesterton, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Way cool.
- crexor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19compiz has been doing this for quite some time as well...
- bonky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14This is freaking awesome. Quickly blow up low resolution porn! How handy is that.
- Sonic84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14command+Option+8 (+)(-) has long been the shortcut for zooming the screen, nice to see it's been moved to the scroll wheel too.
- bogaut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14finally i dont have to use a complicated keyboard shortcut to just zoom in.
- StephenCIreland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11this isnnt about longhorn......
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Actually, MaceSoul, while I get where you're trying to go with that, you're fundamentally confused.
You are correct that a vector-based presentation layer enables smoother scaling. Early implementations of Longhorn called for just such a PL. It was code-named Avalon.
When doing a simple screen zoom (like the one discussed here), the pixels are just magnified, so the vector nature of the presentation layer doesn't come into play.
Avalon may or may not work in Vista the way you saw in that early demo. A lot has changed since Microsoft first announced Longhorn over five years ago (two months after OS X actually started shipping). At the moment, Windows XP still uses the old bitmapped presentation layer, like Apple did back in the 20th century.
Mac OS X, on the other hand, has been using vector technology since 2001.
Oops. - Powerdrift, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14But I used this when I got my Mighty Mouse with my Mac Pro two weeks ago...
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -18/+28@(dick)cheez
The sentence is vague, but it isn't a fragment; it's grammatically correct.
"it's" is the subject. "It is": contextually we (the rest of us) know he's talking about the aforementioned scrolling feature. "it's" is also the subject "it" and the predicate "is" which forms a complete sentence. "not" is a modifier negating "it is". "really" is a qualifier.
Know what is and is not grammatically correct before bitching about someone's grammar. - jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10no, this zoom doesn't give you any extra detail
- monototo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Powerdrift, command+option+8 turns the keyboard zooming on and off.
- bebop717, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That feature has always been there but it had to be turned on in universal access and the command on the keyboard was apple + option + "+" to zoom in and "-" to zoom out. It's great for watching videos online that don't zoom or movie trailers that only get so big.
- tigerdyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Mac OS X - introducing sniper-view!
- jarrodtrainque, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Archurban added value to this thread by pointing out a fact (Mighty Mouse had this feature). Everyone with half a brain understood his comment, despite the imperfect English.
Cheez went off-topic with a personal attack on grammar, missing the forest for the trees. Blocked.
Back to the topic at hand... - BWhaler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apple rocks.
And for the schmuck above me who thinks it's useless, you clearly are not into a career which requires eye for detail or have vision problems. For 10's of millions of people, it's critical. - zodieman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Of course it's newsworthy. It's a new feature that Apple added that makes things better and more interesting. When was the last time MS added a new feature to Windows as part of a regular system update? They're too busy plugging the holes in their levies...
- archurban, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7oh, not just only with mouse but also two fingers scroll with ctrl button, too.
- igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Cmd+Opt+What?
WE WILL NEVER KNOW!
:O - thunderer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ jm
...until leopard's resolution independent UI hopefully. - tumult, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7zooming with ctrl+scroll wheel has been around for a long time, why are people making it out to be a new feature in the newest update?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Awesome, it works.
- philodox1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Can it be used in lieu of the loupe in Aperture for better zooming? Not on my mac right now so not sure...
- Jimtac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seriously don't try the Front Row enabler. I just killed my PB, it won't get past the starting OSX screen... Seriously sucks...
- mouthster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cmd-Opt-blackslash will toggle the aliasing.
Hah, digg removes the slash.. - Powerdrift, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6What's the 8 for? I just used Command+Option+(+ || -).
- wakesabre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is pretty cool...but what about zooming out to simulate a larger desktop - similar to this: http://mydreamapp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=550
so having a 1024*768 resolution screen, for example, and being able to zoom out and see everything that you could see on, say, a 1600*1200 resolution screen or larger...except downsized (there would obviously be less detail). combine that with the zooming shown in this article, using the mouse scroll wheel for fast zooming in and out, and that would be an awesome feature to have. - FetalSage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wish the clarity didn't have to go, would be nice if it stayed sharp no matter how far you zoom in.
- igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3same here...
works just fine, there just isn't a pref. pane for it... :-/
using a 1.42GHz eMac with 64 MB of VRAM and 1GB of RAM (sucks, i know) - yalskey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LOVE IT... thank you. I don't care if it has been on here before for the mighty mouse. I never knew about it working for a regular mouse!
- zpjet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yes you're right, i first noticed it on new mac pros (i'm working in an apple centre) and i thought it might be tied to certain video cards only... good it's software feature.
- microbreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been able to do it ever since I got the wireless Mighty Mouse, and that was on the 10.4.7.
- Redcooper02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Very cool. I love little tips like this.
I also tried it in Parallels and it works there too! - orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its just digg man, its not the news :P can you dig it ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6All your base are belong to us.
Someone set up us the bomb. - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That used to be in the accessibiliy preferences before, with a keyboard only functionality.
- thinkdifferent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@hifidesign
It's not the zooming that is the new feature, it's the additional interface to control it that is new. - kingyubba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1also works on my PBG4 running SideTrack. :-)
- thunderer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oooh! I'm so setting the button I have when I push down the scroll wheel to act as if "Control" is pressed.
- Mannon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Not useless at all, it is an special needs feature.. very handy in fact...
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Zooming has been there since God knows when; the only new thing is putting it on the mouse.
And that didn't come with 10.4.8. I've been using it ever since I got my Core2 iMac. - digga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not a new feature - just a new way of controlling it (of course, this was first added with the Mighty Mouse prefpane, but now it's in the OS proper).
- imajilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cover Flow looks cool, zoomed- especially on my 12" PB! The center cover and the next cover in either direction take up the whole screen. Scrolling sideways with two fingers on the trackpad controls the cover flow (one finger scrolling adjusts the position of the UI in the window.)
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So you don't care that with 10.4.8, other people can now also use this feature?
- hifiDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@thinkdifferent: Fair enough... Notice I did say "The shortcut may be relatively new, however, I cannot confirm this"... The overall point being is that a lot of diggers in this thread are treating the zooming feature like a massively new concept.
- CRiZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so cool..
- DarthGordolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Finally! No more strained eyes looking at people's outrageously small fonts on iChat!
- phogasmic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i love it, it is quickly becoming a feature that I can`t live without. Nice find.
- StatusQuoRules, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Same here. First noticed on Mac Pro
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