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Megazoomer: Full-screen mode for Cocoa apps

Submitted by Merlin on July 5, 2006 - 8:28am.

ianhenderson.org - megazoomer

Speaking of full-screen functionality, lots of people have been writing to mention Megazoomer, a free, SIMBL-based bundle that fakes full-screen mode within any Cocoa app, including Safari and Textmate.

Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again.

It should be great to have this in Textmate, whose functional depth you lose working in an app like WriteRoom. Haven’t had time to play with Megazoomer much yet, but it certainly looks promising.

[ thanks to lots of people for sending this one ]

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As was pointed out on...

Submitted by Joe Wiz (not verified) on July 5, 2006 - 8:55am.

As was pointed out on the MacUpdate comments for megazoomer, the current version of megazoomer (.3) disables VLC’s full screen mode. Also, anecdotally, I started to experience instability and unexpected crashes in Mail after installing megazoomer, which went away when I uninstalled megazoomer (i.e. removed it from the SIMBL plugins folder); this could’ve been a conflict with something else on my system, though. Couldn’t spare the time to test & troubleshooot.