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July 25, 2007

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The most fun you can have without actually drawing on your screen

Posted Jul. 25, ’07, 10:11 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

HighlightIf you’ve ever given a presentation in front of a room full of people, you know how handy it is to be able to draw their attention to certain parts of the screen: “Over here,” you might say, “you can see the rare Crumple-Horned Snorkack.” While a laser pointer often works fine for these types of situations, sometimes you need something a little more flexible.

The free program Highlight lets you superimpose a drawing layer on your screen onto which you can make lines, circles, rectangles, and squiggles. Choose a color and a pen size in the menu, and you can doodle away to your heart’s content (or your audience’s frustration). A hot key lets you hide and show the drawing layer, and you can step back and delete one drawing at a time with the backspace key, or clear them all by hitting command-K.

There are other programs that do this as well, but Highlight is so simple that it’s just fun to use, even if you’re not giving a presentation.

[via Lifehacker]


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