Comments on: WTF Mac?!

Question: WTF Mac?!

lekvar — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:34:45 -0800

What is going on with my display? Some kind of "pan-and-scan" effect has been switched on and it's making me seasick.

Details: Mac OS, 10.3.9, G5 desktop. I was working in Photoshop when suddenly the whole screen zoomed out. Since the whole screen won't fit on the display the whole thing shifts around on the monitor in response to my cursor's position. Everything's gone all pixely too, like a jpeg with too much compression. Everything's umping around. Help! I need to get work done!

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:36:37 -0800

Press Command Option 8.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:39:32 -0800

Ooog, thank you. I just found the "Zoom" feature in the Universal Access tab. What a horrible horrible thing. I'd been searching everywhere else.

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:42:32 -0800

Good for zooming into un-full-screen-able things though, like web videos. One the features I most miss when I use Windows.

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:13:19 -0800

A good practical joke would be to press command -f5. Turns on speech (also from Universal Access.

By: dmaterialized

dmaterialized — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:22:43 -0800

Nah, the real practical joke is to press Command, Option, Control and 8 (all the modifier keys on the left of the spacebar, plus 8)-- you can do it in a way that's like you fell on the keyboard by accident and "broke it"... :P