I never thought of using the zoom to make flash videos larger. Good idea.

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When I'm in safari, and there is no horizontal scrollbar, I can just type the left or right arrow key without first clicking in any text box to get the cursor to disappear.

Or even if there is a scrollbar, but you are already scrolled all they way the the left, you can just hit the left arrow, and it will go away without actually scrolling.

Firefox might differ I suppose.

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Well skip step 3 anyways, you'll want to keep step 4.

sigh, must proofread better.

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Yeah- I noticed that could usually make the pointer disappear without clicking in a text box but it was intermittent on some pages. Usually as long as the text of the page is focused instead of the flash control ~Edified.

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wow, i do this all the time and never thought of it as a hint. i use it expecially when i'm watching trailers or youtube.

frankly, i just move the mouse out of the way; then again, i don't zoom it in to completely fill the screen.

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Or you can just zoom in and (assuming no text box has been selected) hit tab. This will select the address bar, hiding the cursor in the process.

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Hitting tab doesn't hide the cursor for me... and it usually makes the page scroll to a text field.

Hitting the right arrow, either by itself, or after tab, does hide the cursor.

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I just want to "finger-tap" the movie twice to have it fill the screen. :-)

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Hi,

I've never zoomed before and tried this in Firefox. I had set up my preferences for the zoom as mentioned and then clicked the search field and saw the mouse pointer and then hit control of something and lost it and can't get it back. I also tried in Safari and it's gone. Any ideas what I did? This looks really neat.

Thanks,

S.

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or use Opera browser. http://opera.com

It has per-page zoom which works great on YouTube.


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Opera has a larger memory footprint and takes a higher processor percentage than Safari or Firefox.

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Indeed this works pretty well, and we have been using it happily for a while. However, when you've clicked on the flash applet, like fast forwarding certain parts, it "locks" your cursor focus inside flash. This will stop the cursor from disappearing. A sure way that works with both Safari and Firefox is:

1) Press Command-L
2) Press Esc key (or any other character keys in fact)

The command L will force the focus on the URL box, while Esc takes the cursor away.

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nice trick, but if you are already zoomed in an forgot to click the search box before:
just hit "command + shift + 4" to start a screenshot. the cursor will become a crosshair and moving it will not pan the screen anymore.
if you want to escape this mode, just hit escape...

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Another way is to change the way the zoom function works:

Go to System Preferences, then Universal Access and click on the zoom options, and at the bottom of the drop down is the three different ways the zoom can work- if you select "Only when the pointer reaches the edge" then you can move the mouse to either the right or bottom of the screen and watch the zoomed video without a mouse pointer in the way.

Don't worry about the "Enable" or "Disable" - from what I gather it only controls the keyboard shortcuts for the zoom function, it still works when "diabled" using the control key.

I can't claim credit for discovering this, my 3 year old found (and changed) the setting for me, and it took me a while to find out how to change it back. It works great for watching zoomed video, but is a bit more tedious than the standard zoom function.

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ok - I'm a moron, I successfully explained how to do step 1 of the hint.

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Another way...

you can just do option-tab to make the cursor desappear

(works in zoom-in mode but also in normal mode)

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thanks everyone, for the og hint and all comments! exactly what i needed - and to think, i used to use third-party software to hide the mouse for full-screen zoomed in movies. corewerkz

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