RKCole
October 21st, 2006, 06:29 PM
Hello, everyone.
Has anyone heard anything regarding XMCM lately? I have been trying to keep up, but the last update to the SourceForge site was in June.
The reason I ask is because I had a bout with AiSquared (the makers of ZoomText for Windows) because I had to reinstall Windows and they disabled ZoomText altogether. Apparently if you have an Internet connection they track how many times you install ZoomText on your PC..and I have had to reinstall Windows a few other times in the past, thus I had to reinstall ZoomText. I was able to talk to the company (after going through a lot of still-unpacked boxes--I moved back in June--to find serial numbers for older versions of ZoomText) and I got my program re-activated...Unfortunately if it happens again I am out of luck and will have to pay out $175 for an upgrade (which I will not be able to afford).
XMCM looked very promising as it seemed like it would have the same (if not better) capabilities as ZoomText. Please don't' get me wrong...I really like using gnome-mag, and it makes Ubuntu very usable for me, but on my horizontal docked-top configuration, some windows are not completely visible because of the screen real-estate taken by the magnifier. I don't know what ZoomText's method of resolving this is, but it makes working with computers a lot easier. But like I said...I am quite agitated with the company, and once college lets out and I do not need Windows anymore (a lot of the programming courses I have to take require Windows-based programming tools), I plan to solely use Ubuntu.
Anyway...sorry for the long post, guys.
Hope all is well.
Take care.
Has anyone heard anything regarding XMCM lately? I have been trying to keep up, but the last update to the SourceForge site was in June.
The reason I ask is because I had a bout with AiSquared (the makers of ZoomText for Windows) because I had to reinstall Windows and they disabled ZoomText altogether. Apparently if you have an Internet connection they track how many times you install ZoomText on your PC..and I have had to reinstall Windows a few other times in the past, thus I had to reinstall ZoomText. I was able to talk to the company (after going through a lot of still-unpacked boxes--I moved back in June--to find serial numbers for older versions of ZoomText) and I got my program re-activated...Unfortunately if it happens again I am out of luck and will have to pay out $175 for an upgrade (which I will not be able to afford).
XMCM looked very promising as it seemed like it would have the same (if not better) capabilities as ZoomText. Please don't' get me wrong...I really like using gnome-mag, and it makes Ubuntu very usable for me, but on my horizontal docked-top configuration, some windows are not completely visible because of the screen real-estate taken by the magnifier. I don't know what ZoomText's method of resolving this is, but it makes working with computers a lot easier. But like I said...I am quite agitated with the company, and once college lets out and I do not need Windows anymore (a lot of the programming courses I have to take require Windows-based programming tools), I plan to solely use Ubuntu.
Anyway...sorry for the long post, guys.
Hope all is well.
Take care.