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BlindPenguin Project

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Introduction

As part of the Commercial Software Development Degree every student has to undertake a project. The purpose of this project is to encourage students to come up with original designs for software and implement these designs. The project is also designed to encourage students to develop the habit of working in teams and planning their work. A team may choose their own project which can be in any area of computing, for a list of projects check out emhain.wit.ie.

What is the Project?

Simply put the BlindPenguin project is a piece of software that magnifies the screen for anyone using X Windows, for more information check out the reports and project plans.

Reasons for Choosing this Project

There were a number of reasons why we chose our project. The most important one was that nothing remotely like it had ever been done as a fourth year project before. The philosophy of most Linux developers is to provide their source code free of charge, which made it easier to learn how exactly we would go about developing a screen magnification package. Another reason was that there was nothing written for X Windows, which was even remotely user friendly or useable.

Warning & Restrictions

Both xzoom and BlindPenguin are distributed as is with absolutely no warranty. No responsibility is taken for any damage or lass that is caused through the correct or incorrect use of these programs.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the software and associated documentation files (the"Software"), on this siet to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The copyright notices permission notices in both xzoom and the BlindPenguin interface shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.



The Project Team

The team consists of two people Catherine Teahan and Kieran O' Sullivan. they can be contacted through the following e-mail addresses.