'Screen Compass' Version 3.2 from Iconico.

What is the Screen Compass?

The Screen Compass allows you to measure circular or polygonal shapes on your screen simply and quickly. The Screen Compass can be used with any program where fast and accurate measurements are required.

The Screen Compass allows you to measure the Radius, Circumference or Area of circular or polygonal shapes on your screen. The intuitive user interface allows you to quickly align the Compass by dragging it with the mouse, and fine adjustments can be made using the keyboard or nudge buttons.

Screen Compass is trialware. The software is available from the Iconico website at: http://www.iconico.com.

System Requirements:  MacOS 10.2 or higher.

Screen Compass features:

Interface
The Screen Compass has a full-color user interface shown in brushed metal.

Skins
The interface ëskiní of the Compass is changeable. The application comes with an alternate ëTechnicalí skin. Selecting a new skin is quick and easy, through the right-click menu. Skins will be available for download from Iconico at http://www.iconico.com.

Extra units
In addition to measuring pixels the Screen Compass measures inches, centimeters, points, picas and twips. There are also five custom fields that you can define to measure in their own units.

Full Feature List

- Draggable Compass slider for quick movement.
- Nudge keyboard controls for quick alignment, including a new large nudge.
- Radius, Circumference and Area measurements.
- Complete illustrated on-line help file.
- 37 different polygons to measure, from triangle, square and pentagon to the 39 sided Triacontakaienneagon.
- 360 degrees rotation.
- Relative position calculator, for example type '*2' and the gap doubles.
- System tray control.
- 6 units of measurement and 5 user defined measurements.
- Transparency selector
- Skin selector.

All the major functions of the Compass are free to use for an unlimited time. For the following additional features you must register this program.

- Measure radii greater than 100 pixels.
- Set the Transparency of the Calipers to make them see-through. 
- Additional units of measurement including inches and centimeters. 
- Define your own custom units of measurement. 
- Use arithmetic calculations (+, -, * and /): for example type '*2' and the gap doubles. 
- Hide the Splash Screen when the program starts up.

Availability

The Screen Compass is available now, and may be downloaded from http://www.iconico.com.

About Iconico
Iconico was founded in 2000 by Nico Westerdale, and it offers a blend of inventive tools and on-line artwork.

Iconico distributes its products under the shareware principles: try before you buy and minimal or no marketing costs.  As a result trialware costs a fraction of the price of most other commercial software.
 
Contact Information:

Nico Westerdale: nico@iconico.com
Press Contact: press@iconico.com
URL: http://www.iconico.com