Enlanging the Screen of a PDA?

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."

Honestly

[jsse]

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

Help them out

[Wuffle]

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.

Re:Help them out

[torpor]

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.

Re:Help them out

[2Stupid2KnowIt]

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.

Enlanging?

[rastachops]

Enlanging? Thats a new one for me ...
Maybe reading your own advice would be good;

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Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)

have you tried a fresnel lens?

[cryptozoologist]

ya know, like in the film brazil

Re:have you tried a fresnel lens?

[Radical Rad]

Same thing I thought of, or wearing a jeweler's loupe.

This guy built his own "Brazil" monitor [mit.edu]

I know you said palm, but..

[Gaijin42]

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.

Enlang your penis now!...

[augros]

Sorry, just couldn't resist.

A noble heart..

[sohp]

embiggens even the smallest screen.

Re:A noble heart..

[superid]

That was a very cromulent post.

If you enlarged the screen ...

[Mikey-San]

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

-/-
Mikey-San

Re:If you enlarged the screen ...

[Kris_J]

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

Large fonts

[David_Bloom]

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.

Magnifying Glass?

[DoctorMabuse]

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

spell check with that manifier...

[Anonymous Coward]

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....