{"id":3281,"date":"2014-12-15T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2015-09-05T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:21:56","slug":"something-new-resolutionator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=3281","title":{"rendered":"Something new: Resolutionator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/resolutionator_icon.png\" alt=\"resolutionator_icon\" width=\"128\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-top:-10px\"\/>The &#8220;something new&#8221; portion of today&#8217;s promised &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=3259\">something different<\/a>, something new&#8221; is a public beta of Resolutionator. And what is Resolutionator? As noted in our teaser last week, it&#8217;s a tool to help you with your resolutions in the new year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/resolutions2.png\" alt=\"resolutions1\" width=\"211\" class=\"alignright\" \/>No, not <em>those<\/em> resolutions, but resolutions like those seen at right. That&#8217;s right; Resolutionator brings back the menu bar resolution switching feature that Apple saw fit to remove at some point in the past.<\/p>\n<p>But as with all our apps, Resolutionator is capable of many additional tricks. You can&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use more resolutions than those available in the Displays System Preferences panel.<\/li>\n<li>Switch resolutions via an onscreen menu, accessed via a user-defined hot key.<\/li>\n<li>On some Macs, use resolutions greater than the available pixels. For instance, you can set a 13&#8243; Retina MacBook Pro to display at 2880&#215;1800 pixels, greater than its 2560&#215;1600 true resolution. It sounds like magic, but it&#8217;s real, and it works.<\/li>\n<li>Set resolutions for any attached displays via either the menu bar or floating resolution switcher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who might find Resolutionator useful? Owners of Retina Macs who find themselves switching between &#8220;OMG it&#8217;s stunning!&#8221; retina mode and &#8220;I need to see more data&#8221; more space modes. Users with multiple displays who change resolutions on one or more of the connected displays. Users of Macs with smaller screens (11&#8243; MacBook Air, anyone?) who occasionally wished they could see more data on their screen. And probably many other people who have usage scenarios we haven&#8217;t even thought of yet.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been using Resolutionator internally for a few months, and we think it&#8217;s nearly ready to go. But before we release version 1.0, we&#8217;d like to get some feedback from the real world&hellip;and that&#8217;s where you come in: If you&#8217;d like to help beta test Resolutionator, <a href=\"mailto:info@manytricks.com?subject=Resolutionator%20beta\">drop us a line<\/a> and we&#8217;ll provide a download link and some &#8220;getting started&#8221; instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Resolutionator is just an app that uses APIs provided by OS X to get and set display resolutions; it can&#8217;t harm your display by putting it into a mode it can&#8217;t support (because the monitor tells OS X what it can do, and Resolutionator uses those values for its list of available resolutions).<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;d like to help us test, drop us a line and we&#8217;ll get you set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;something new&#8221; portion of today&#8217;s promised &#8220;something different, something new&#8221; is a public beta of Resolutionator. And what is Resolutionator? As noted in our teaser last week, it&#8217;s a tool to help you with your resolutions in the new year. No, not those resolutions, but resolutions like those seen at right. 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