Virtual Magnifying Glass is an application that is supported on Microsoft Windows 2000+, Mac OS X, and Linux distributions. This product literally is a magnifying glass for a user’s desktop. When functioning in regular magnifying mode, it locks a magnified frame to the user’s cursor. Wherever the cursor is moved, the area under it is magnified based on the user specified options. Unfortunately, icons and other things under the area cannot be interacted with while in this mode. For that functionality, a user would have to put the tool into “Dynamic Mode”.
This tool has multiple bugs that I noticed while using it. For example, when clicking off of the magnifier onto Windows Live Messenger, it would temporarily change my status to “busy” and then back to “normal”. Also, when trying to install onto Fedora Linux, I was unable to even start the application.
As a tool to help those with poor eyesight see small icons, it succeeds. However, for a tool with good usability, it fails.
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