It’s no secret — we’re all getting older.
Final week on this column, I discussed studying the small print in your USB charger to see how a lot energy it might present.
The image I took of the small print on a charger introduced just a few emails from readers complaining about not having the ability to learn very small kind in varied locations.
My spouse retains a magnifying glass inside attain at her chair in our front room. She even has a “touring” magnifying glass for after we exit of city.
To be truthful, she’s having cataract surgical procedure subsequent month.
Do you know your iPhone has a built-in magnifying app? It’s referred to as the Magnifier and you may search your telephone for it.
I’ve my telephone set as much as name up the Magnifier app if I triple-click the sleep/wake button. You may set that up by going to Settings, opening the Accessibility web page and scrolling all the way down to the underside to “Accessibility Shortcut.” Scroll down that record and select “Magnifier” from the record.
Now whenever you triple-click the facet button, the Magnifier app will launch.
What’s so totally different concerning the Magnifier app that makes it higher than simply snapping a photograph and pinching it to zoom in?
The app takes a photograph, however consider it as a freeze-frame. You may snap the image, however the telephone doesn’t mechanically reserve it to your digital camera roll. Likelihood is you simply need to learn some textual content and also you don’t want to avoid wasting the picture. When you do need to save the picture, you’ll be able to contact the share icon on the higher proper and select to avoid wasting the picture.
You too can use a zoom slider to enlarge the textual content, and there’s a slider to vary the distinction, which may be very useful for studying grey textual content printed on a white background (like on Apple energy provides).
The Magnifier additionally has choices to vary the publicity (brighten or darken the general picture) or to show the flash on and off.
Android customers don’t have a built-in Magnifier app, however the Google Play retailer has loads of choices.
The free ones may have adverts and are seemingly restricted of their performance to only snapping photographs, zooming and saving to your digital camera roll. Enabling superior options and going ad-free will value you some cash.
I learn just a few app comparability websites that record “Magnifying Glass + Flashlight” as a superb one which solely prices $1.99 to unlock a everlasting ad-free model.
Jim Rossman is a tech columnist for Tribune Information Service. He could also be reached at [email protected].