Friday, August 30, 2013

How to turn your Mouse into a Screen Pen with Microsoft ZoomIt...

Microsoft ZoomIt is an excellent Windows utility by Microsoft that lets you draw or write free-hand on the desktop screen in various colors as you can see from the screen shot below...

But it's more than just another screen annotation tool - you can pan like an on-screen camera or magnify any area of the desktop using either the mouse wheel or the arrow keys.

It might take a minute to get used to the ZoomIt Options and Hotkeys but once you master that, it's fun all the way. The first time you run ZoomIt it presents a configuration dialog that describes ZoomIt's behavior, let's you specify alternate Hotkeys for zooming and for entering drawing mode without zooming, and customize the drawing pen color and size. For example, I use the 'draw-without-zoom' option to annotate the screen at its native resolution. ZoomIt also includes a break timer feature that remains active even when you tab away from the timer window and allows you to return to the timer window by clicking on the ZoomIt tray icon.

ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows. There's an option to change the nib size of the pen as well. Unfortunately, you cannot directly save your creative screen drawings but the Print Screen key can help. And there's no eraser.


[ Credit goes to Digital Inspiration ]

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