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Enlanging the Screen of a PDA?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-magnifying-glass-for-small-screens dept.

2Stupid2KnowIt asks: "Given the article on the Braille PDA I would like to find an application for the Palm which will allow me to magnify the entire screen. I found TealManify and it almost does what I need, but it disables the input to the screen. I would like the application to use only the scroll wheel on the Sony Clie for moving the magnified area. Pressing the scroll wheel switches between vertical and horizontal scrolling."

24 comments

  1. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "enlanging"?

    1. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I found TealManify and

      How about TealMaGnify?

  2. Honestly by jsse · · Score: 1

    How much they paid you for posting this obvious ad? A 'xzoom' PDA port is hardly an interesting technology.

  3. Help them out by Wuffle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't you suggest your idea to the authors of TealMagify? I'm sure they'd be interested in giving people features they want.

    1. Re:Help them out by torpor · · Score: 2, Funny

      And as a Clie user, I'd pay for TealMagnify if I heard they did this after a little nudging from their customers.

      I love the camera integration. The Clie needs a "Blade Runner"-esque realtime image-processing system.

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    2. Re:Help them out by 2Stupid2KnowIt · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Everything I submit gets rejected, so I wasn't too careful checking my post this time, sorry.
      As for the suggestion, I have emailed them, but so far they have not responded.
      PS. Can't we build a spell checker right into SlashCode? I know I'm not the only one who can't spell.

  4. Enlanging? by rastachops · · Score: 2, Funny
    Enlanging? Thats a new one for me ...
    Maybe reading your own advice would be good;
    ( Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
    1. Re:Enlanging? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, they should have double-checked. The correct term is "langing," as the "en" is redundant.

  5. have you tried a fresnel lens? by cryptozoologist · · Score: 2, Funny

    ya know, like in the film brazil

    1. Re:have you tried a fresnel lens? by Radical+Rad · · Score: 1
      Same thing I thought of, or wearing a jeweler's loupe.

      This guy built his own "Brazil" monitor

  6. I know you said palm, but.. by Gaijin42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the pocketPC platform, there is a great app out there called JSLandscape. It lets me go 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 on my ipaq, in portrait or landscape mode. Of course 1024x768 is totally unreadable on that size sceen, but it lets me use my remote desktop. It has a zoom feature that goes back down to a 320x240 section of the screen, and a little box with arrows that lets you scroll around. Input is enabled the whole time, via keyboard, soft keyboard (although the soft keyboard might be in an area of the screen you cant see, because of scroll), grafitti (well, not grafitti, but the pocketpc version, which has the same strokes), and transcriber (the cursive/printing handwriting recognition)

    On both my ARM ipaq, and my XScale ipaq, response time is slower than when in normal res, but very usable. Especially if you are getting the data across 802.11

    Only downside is it takes a soft reset to switch resolutions.

  7. Enlang your penis now!... by augros · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, just couldn't resist.

  8. A noble heart.. by sohp · · Score: 3, Funny

    embiggens even the smallest screen.

    1. Re:A noble heart.. by superid · · Score: 1

      That was a very cromulent post.

  9. If you enlarged the screen ... by Mikey-San · · Score: 1

    You'd have a bigger on-screen keyboard to submit Slashdot posts without spelling errors with! ;-D

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    1. Re:If you enlarged the screen ... by Kris_J · · Score: 1

      Or to boldly split infinitives that no man has split before.

  10. Large fonts by David_Bloom · · Score: 1

    Won't large fonts work? These instructions are for PalmOS 4, not sure if they are exactly the same as in PalmOS 5, but in most apps that use multiple-line textboxes, you can write "/" in the grafitti area (starting in the lowerleft corner of the /), write a grafitti "F", and select a bigger font.

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  11. Magnifying Glass? by DoctorMabuse · · Score: 1

    Hardware and software independent. Works without electricity. Used to read books for hundreds of years. Very inexpensive.

  12. spell check with that manifier... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am sure TealMagify would love to halp yuo wiht yor Enlanging problim, thouh TealManify seams too hav the rite tuuls to help wtith seaing beter, they may want to ad instant spel cheking when it maiks the werds bigere....

  13. Please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Please don't use your laziness as an excuse to pollute our news... Get off your lazy butt and code your damn thing yourself.

  14. here's a partial solution.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hi

    Just to tell you of "Pocket Controller" , a pocketpc
    app that, once you've cradled your iPaq, eg, to your
    desktop, will autostart and put for you a rendition
    of your PDA unit on the big screen of your desktop..
    with full access of your PDA by desktop mouse and/or
    keyboard ..

    works great.. the exe that is installed is called
    pocketcontroller.exe , i think ..
    Also, the desktop screen is itself able to change sizes : mine is presented at about twice the size
    of the actual screen on the credeled iPaq ..works great...

    get back to me if you cant find it...

    jon
    tkjtkj@charter.net

  15. Pocket Controller source: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pocket Controller:

    go to www.soti.net

    enjoy!

    jon
    tkjtkj@charter.net