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Phil Winstanley - British .NET chap based in Lancashire. Enjoys tea and tech. Working for Microsoft.

Windows feature which kicks the crap out of OSX

I recently found a way to increase the DPI of my Windows XP laptop which runs at 1680x1050 up to 125, which has made reading the content on the screen much easier (I am getting old and my eyesight is failing me).

On XP you can increase the font size of the system fonts and control the look and feel of the whole operating system, not so on OSX.

I'm writing this post now on my Mac Mini plugged into a 21" widescreen monitor also running at 1680x1050, but the fonts are *tiny*, there's no way that I can find to increase the core system fonts in size, apparently there's a tool in the developer toolkit to let me change the DPI but come on - I need the developer toolkit to increase a font?!

Anyway, I love my Mac, but it's these little things which are irritating me, I end up having to increase the font size of my browsers which mucks up so many sites and only some sites let you do it, most frustrating. 

Posted: Oct 22 2006, 11:57 AM by Plip | with 1 comment(s)
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Andrew Disley said:

A new pair of glasses?

# October 23, 2006 7:36 AM