Use Zoom to View Websites Easier on Smaller Screened PCs

December 23, 2008 | By glarr00 In Misc. Gadgets |

Use Zoom to View Websites Easier on Smaller Screened PCs
I have an understandable soft spot for the original 800×480 resolution UMPCs since I owned two of them. I later upgraded to a 1024×600 display with the Samsung Q1UP, but I remember bunches of scrolling when viewing websites on the first two Q1 devices. Nostalgia aside, Pocketables offers up a great tip for a better […]

firefox-3-zoom I have an understandable soft spot for the original 800×480 resolution UMPCs since I owned two of them. I later upgraded to a 1024×600 display with the Samsung Q1UP, but I remember bunches of scrolling when viewing websites on the first two Q1 devices. Nostalgia aside, Pocketables offers up a great tip for a better web experience on those older devices.

In Firefox 3.x, you can hit the “CTRL +” or “CTRL -” keyboard combo to zoom the entire web page in or out. Note that this is different from increasing or decreasing the font size; it causes the whole page to zoom so that you can fit it on a lower resolution display. If your device doesn’t have an integrated keyboard, this type of shortcut might be handy to program into a hardware button, although Firefox will remember your zoom setting even after closing it and reopening it.

Note that if you use Internet Explorer 7 or Opera, you can accomplish the same results either with a key combo or the zoom setting at the bottom right of the browser. Just be sure that you uncheck any “Zoom Text Only” type of setting if there is one in your browser. If you forget to do that, you won’t be zooming the page; you’ll be giving yourself an eye-test with ginormous and itty-bitty text.

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Bag TV lets you watch TV on your handbag
Handbags have a tendency to be exceptionally expensive as it is. Well at least these have an excuse to be pricey, they come with a TV built into them. I’d say that’s a good enough reason to pay a few extra bucks. Plus the bags themselves look fairly large, so if you like carrying around […]

Handbags have a tendency to be exceptionally expensive as it is. Well at least these have an excuse to be pricey, they come with a TV built into them. I’d say that’s a good enough reason to pay a few extra bucks. Plus the bags themselves look fairly large, so if you like carrying around a lot of stuff, this bag will still allow for that. Sadly, it might make your handbag more of a target, when it comes to thieves. However, there’s a flap that hides the screen, so as long as you’re not watching it, no one has to know it’s there.

The LCD screen is 7” and you can buy either the set with the TV or just the handbag by itself. The reason they offer it this way is so that you can have the bag in more than one color. Like most handbags though, the one without the TV is still a bit pricey. The bags come in seven different color combinations. The handbags could easily pass for professional when you need them to be, but still casual at the same time. The battery life for the TV will last you about 2.5 hours. You can play DVDs, MP3s or pull images and music directly from your PC. It also has an SD card slot available. The set with the TV will cost you £295 or about $436.

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