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  • This Week's Show: Back to School Tech Tips

Tip of the Week: Make things bigger on newer LCDs

Today's big widescreen LCD displays are fantastic, but for those with failing vision, the default resolution creates text that is smaller than is comfortable for many.

Reducing the resolution can make things bigger, but done wrong, it can dramatically degrade the display quality.

Lincoln Spector of PCWorld has some tips to "Effectively Lower Screen Resolution".