14 DAY TRIAL // One of Google's best products, the Google Reader, has recently received a new feature, meant to enhance the users' experience. The Google Reader was released back in 2005, as a means of providing Google users with a better tool for an RSS feed Reader. The web-based application can be accessed through any Google account and offers a number of customization tools, enabling the user with an easy-to-use news Reader.
Throughout the years, this Google product has gone through some important upgrades. Google users can now have their Google Reader on their mobile handsets or even on their Wii gaming console. The extent of features goes as far as offering users a means by which they can benefit from the Google Reader when working offline. Among the Google Reader accessibility features, users can make use of keyboard shortcuts, which have been recently updated.
According to the official Google Reader, the Google Reader experience has been enhanced with a simple CSS-based lens. With the new feature, users can press = or - in order to increase or lower the font size of whatever article they are reading. As Google Reader is capable of recognizing what is the article the user is reading, it can magnify the text of that specific article alone. The tool should prove useful to users having a though time reading various articles because of the small font size. The tool is different from a generic screen magnifier, as it only magnifies a specific area.
The new feature has been announced last Thursday and, at this point, is completely functional. The prototype for the new zoom-in/zoom-out feature has been built on a AxsJAX framework and has been brought online after the guys at Google realized it was going to serve as a useful tool.