This app grinds my system to a crawl. to the extent that it is extremely exasperating to use. I have a new MBA, which has no problem with complex and CPU-intensive graphics, but this app runs like Adobe Flash 10 on a 66 MHz Motorola-powered Apple. I literally have to wait 2-5 seconds between a mouse click or keyboard command, and whatever action I'm taking. I also do not like the "innovative zoom effect." It's neither useful nor "hypnotically beautiful," it just adds visual noise. It may serve to cram the parts of your screen that would normally be obscured by magnification, but it is displayed at such an acute angle, that it is useless at conveying information. One expects to not see around the periphery of a magnified object; it's what we all experience having used a magnifying glass. It's not something that needs to be fixed or compensated for.The gear icon that appears in the middle of whatever you're magnifying should not be in the middle of whatever you're magnifying. The whole point of magnifying is to see something better, not to place an object in front of what you're trying to see.Clicking the gear icon opens a box in which there is another gear icon labeled "preferences." Clicking it does nothing! Also in the box are zoom-in and zoom-out icons, showing "+" and "-" signs respectively. This is fine (well, no it isn't because when you click, nothing happens, so you click again, and suddenly you've magnified too much when the system catches up), but it would be much simpler if there was a keyboard shortcut to do this. The zoom gimmick and the preferences quirks only knock a star or two off this app, and I would expect that those things would be worked out over time. But the real reason for my low review is the excruciating slowness of this app, and the fact that it grinds your system down to a crawl. As long as this app behaves like this, it is utterly useless to me, and I consider it a waste of money. I wish I could get my money back, but I have no idea how to do that, so I'll just write it off as a lesson learned: read the reviews before buying.

Sounds like a good idea but not well implemented in several ways. First, no intuitive way to get help. On first use it took me awile to figure out how to turn it off. It will be very bad for my wife to use. The side distortion around the zoomed area is confusing and probably the reason the zoomed area is slow and jerky to move. I'd like a version that is simple and smooth to use. I'd also like to be able to control the area of focus and the zoom amount.And what's with that little gear in the middle of zoomed area. It just distracts and doesn't seem to do anything, when you can catch it.

doesn't work.would like my money back.

But I've not yet been able to get it to bring up preferences when I click the gear icon. Movement of the zoom box seems a little slow and jerky too, but I'm hoping for improvements in time. Thanks for a nice app with a good idea!