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(Message started by: eddie on Feb 24^th, 2006, 8:37pm)

Title: i did not know this
Post by eddie on Feb 24^th, 2006, 8:37pm

Hey...
> This works and will become very useful!!!
>> >
>>
>>
>> Print Education
>>
>> THIS IS FOR ALL YOU OLD PEOPLE (not just old....)
>>
>>
>> I just found out and thought I'd pass this on. It's very useful when
>>
>> trying to read small print (especially in the early hours). If you

>> hold
>> down the Ctrl key on your key board and then turn the small wheel
>> in the middle of your mouse away from you or towards you, the print size
>> will change - it will either get larger or smaller - depending on which
>> way you turn the wheel
>>
>> Try it.

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Feb 24^th, 2006, 8:49pm

Well, I'll be damned! What a great idea! Thanks Eddie!

Carol

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by JenniferD on Feb 24^th, 2006, 9:03pm

I don't need that........nnope, nOpe, ca n cee just fyne. swith orr whitout mye glasses. ;)

Thanks bunches!

old lady Jen who does(n't) need glasses

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by _Lee_ on Feb 24^th, 2006, 10:17pm

That is great, but it don't work when you posting to this board. :(

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by MJ on Feb 24^th, 2006, 11:09pm

Pretty cool. I did not know this either. and I have only been playing with the computer since my first Tandy TRS 80.

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Chillrmn1 on Feb 24^th, 2006, 11:21pm

Thanks for passin this on. Never knew about this, this is great.

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Dragnlance on Feb 25^th, 2006, 12:20am

sometimes the old tricks are the best... thanks for the reminder

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Mr. Happy on Feb 25^th, 2006, 12:45am

And I thought Ctrl (+) and Ctrl (-) were the bee's knees. This gains another 3% on total lack of skeletal movement.

Decadence is so cool.
RJ

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by LeLimey on Feb 25^th, 2006, 3:00am

For anyone who hasn't tried this... I thought I'd make you HAVE to! ;;D

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Opus on Feb 25^th, 2006, 8:19am

Nope, doesn't work, must be a windows.IE thing. Back to Ctrl + and -.

The Trash 80 had a mouse, and a web browser????

Hmmmm.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Drk^Angel on Feb 25^th, 2006, 8:37am

Ya usin' Firefox O? Firefox supports it. Both Winblows and Linux versions.

PFDAN..................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by chewy on Feb 25^th, 2006, 11:46am

Doesn't seem to work on PDF files though.

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Opus on Feb 25^th, 2006, 4:27pm

on 02/25/06 at 08:37:52, Drk^Angel wrote:

Ya usin' Firefox O? Firefox supports it. Both Winblows and Linux versions.

PFDAN..................................... Drk^Angel

Must have been a problem with the laptop, it works now, but for me keyboard id easier, especially with a touchpad.

Give me <alt><tab> and <alt><cntl><arrowkeys> or give me death.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by purpleydog on Feb 25^th, 2006, 6:15pm

on 02/25/06 at 11:46:34, chewy wrote:

Doesn't seem to work on PDF files though.

PDF files suck.

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Ueli on Feb 25^th, 2006, 8:34pm

on 02/25/06 at 18:15:29, purpleydog wrote:

PDF files suck.

That's a statement I endorse wholeheartedly.

I don't understand why people transform neat HTML pages into the weird PDF format.

But there is good news: There's an alternative to the slow, bloated, clumsy, resources devouring Acrobat Reader from the last millennium:

Get the Foxit Reader for free from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/.

Ueli [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Lizzie2 on Feb 26^th, 2006, 1:50am

Can't do this on my PowerBook, but then there's a lot of old tricks I used to know how to do that just don't compute to this!!

Like....I used to use the right click on the mouse in order to get info and also when trying to post pictures from my shutterfly site, I needed the right click to get the picture information to continue copying and pasting.

What do you do if there's no right click? My mouse is just one click bar. No wheel either.

I love my power book, but I need someone to teach me all the shortcuts! ;)

Carrie :)

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Opus on Feb 26^th, 2006, 9:10am

on 02/26/06 at 01:50:22, Lizzie2 wrote:

Can't do this on my PowerBook, but then there's a lot of old tricks I used to know how to do that just don't compute to this!!

This should help you. (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459)

I have heard that if you plug in a regular scroll mouse that it will work just fine. I have no experience with that.

I hate using this laptop becouse there are only two buttons, I use middle click a lot, and pushing both buttons at the same time just isn't the same. I would love to find a cheap keyboard with a built in 3 button track ball.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Drk^Angel on Feb 26^th, 2006, 10:50am

on 02/26/06 at 09:10:13, Opus wrote:

I hate using this laptop because there are only two buttons, I use middle click a lot, and pushing both buttons at the same time just isn't the same

"I have heard that if you plug in a regular scroll mouse that it will work just fine." That's what I do on my laptop, no matter if I have Windows, Linux, or OSX installed... It's all good. LOL

PFDAN................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Kirk on Feb 27^th, 2006, 6:47am

OK who here remember their first 100 Emacs keyboard commands.

Oh come on lets not see the same hands up all the time!

[smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Drk^Angel on Feb 27^th, 2006, 1:08pm

I remember playing twenty questions with emacs, but other than that, I tend to use vi, and I still don't know much of any of the commands for it either. LOL

PFDAN......................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: i did not know this
Post by Opus on Feb 27^th, 2006, 1:34pm

on 02/26/06 at 10:50:50, Drk^Angel wrote:

I have a mouse, a large trackball and a hand held trackball. Sometims I can't really use any of them and have to use the touch pad. I am going all command line when I can anyway so I guess I will live.

on 02/27/06 at 06:47:48, Kirk wrote:

OK who here remember their first 100 Emacs keyboard commands.

Oh come on lets not see the same hands up all the time!

[smiley=smokin.gif]

All I know is <ctrl> <x>, <ctrl> <s> to save and
<ctrl> <x>, <ctrl> <c> to get quit.

For some reason these don't work in vi.

It is getting irritating that emacs_nox isn't installed by default on anything I have installed lately.

Opus/Paul