OneLoupe: Simple, small, and portable desktop zooming solution

Posted Jun 13th 2008 1:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Features, Windows, Freeware

It happens to all of us. As we get older, we find it a bit harder to read the text on our computer screens, or make out fine details on digital images. OneLoupe can help. This tiny Windows utility (like, 22kb tiny), hangs out in your system tray until you need to zoom in on an area of your desktop. Then you just click the OneLoupe icon, move your mouse to the portion of the screen you want to zoom in on, and you too can see a highly pixelated version of any web page, picture, or other media.

The zoom window is resizeable. All you have to do is hit the up, down, right, or left arrow keys on your keyboard to stretch or shrink the window. And you can zoom in and out by hitting the plus or minus buttons or scrolling your mousewheel.

Want to save a zoomed image to your clipboard? Just hit B to save a bitmap and you can paste your image into any program.

[via gHacks]

Tags: desktop-zoom, oneloup, zoom

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

6-13-2008 @ 1:41PM

Red Gerland said...

Does anyone knows any program for windows, that can do zoom-in/zoom-out with the scroll of the mouse, just like the Compiz in Ubuntu does it?

6-13-2008 @ 2:40PM

Insurance Blog said...

Zoomit is worth a mention:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

6-13-2008 @ 2:48PM

Richard said...

Maybe this is what Red was after too, but does anybody know of a (free) app that will do the zoom full screen?

6-13-2008 @ 2:49PM

Richard Holden said...

Does anybody know of a similar (free) app that will zoom full-screen?

6-13-2008 @ 3:47PM

James said...

You can change the size of the zoomed-in area in OneLoupe by using the arrow keys while it's magnifying something. There are a couple of other useful features it has too, all mentioned in the Help section you get when you right-click on its system tray icon.

One other great thing about this program -- it doesn't install; you just run it. As a result, my colleagues at work who don't have admin rights can still use it.

6-14-2008 @ 3:17AM

Fred Thompson said...

Magnifier uses the scroll wheel to set the zoom level. It will also do a capture and has a setting to smooth edges of text which I find quite helpful. Anti-aliasing looks chunky when zooming. I don't really understand the full screen question. If the desire is for the entire screen to be magnified, how would you navigate? http://www.iconico.com/magnifier/

6-17-2008 @ 4:34PM

Mason said...

Isn't this just a clone of the zoom feature in most Microsoft wireless mouses? Can't remember what it was called, "intellizoom" or something like that?

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