Presentation Zooming with ZoomIt
After my Heroes Happen Here talk in Boston about web development with Visual Studio 2008, I got a few emails from people asking me how I was able to zoom in to areas of my screen during my demos.
There's a handy and free utility, ZoomIt, originally a SysInternals utility, that's available on TechNet at:
www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/ZoomIt.mspx
Put it in your startup folder and you'll always be a keystroke from it's features:
- Zooming in - CTRL+1
- Use the mouse to move the zoom around.
- Use the up and down arrows to zoom farther in or out.
- Drawing - CTRL+2
- Change colors with "r", "y", "o", "g", b".
- Add text with "t"
- Draw shapes with shift, control, and tab keys.
- Press "w" to enter whiteboard or "k" for blackboard mode.
- Countdown Clock - CTRL+3
- For when you want to say "Let's take a 10 minute break"
- Advanced options let you play a sound on expiration and set opacity
Enjoy!
-Chris
Comments
Anonymous
April 04, 2008
Great tool! No install is needed, so you can also run it as a portable app.Anonymous
May 27, 2008
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