App Store Update print too small--magnify app?

With large screen(s) these days, there is no reason for fine print. In Safari, a quick <Command>+ makes the text bigger to read without a magnifying glass. While watching my macbook pro upgrade to OS X 10.10.1 today, I was trying to read What's new in Safari 8.0.2 but the print is so small I had to get my new reading glasses.
Wouldn't it be nice if all programs had the same feature as Safari to enlarge the text and take advantage of the new larger 5k high res screens? Apple Help does.
While we're waiting for all the developers to support readable text, can anyone recommend a magnifier app?
Am I really getting so old I have to go to the Accessibility preferences? Can I get the senior discount? Can I have the Talking Moose read me the text from any app?
Darrell
UCSD Cognitive Science class of '92
I remember the day when the Cray supercomputer had 8 processors!

However this does point to a bug in the app store update feature. There should be some way to force a check of applications that updated but are still showing as needed in the app store.

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app store update greyed out says waiting, like this for 4 days
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The button on the top of the device. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAeCSj0qAoM

Several apps stuck on "waiting". When I press "install" in the app store update on one of these apps, it just runs the app.

Several apps stuck on "waiting". When I press "install" in the app store update list, it just runs the app. I can load new apps OK.

http://lifehacker.com/5948155/fix-iphone-apps-stuck-waiting-during-installation
http://alvinalexander.com/apple/iphone-waiting-apps-update-install-reinstall-del ete-ipod
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App store update login different than Regular app store

I have updates to download from the app store and the login is different than when I download an app.

If those apps were purchased with the Apple ID that pops up - you have to use that ID in order to update the app. If you have more than one ID, this is normal behavior. One of the apps must need that ID in order to update.
If you know that this is not the case, and I'm not sure why that ID would come up if it isn't the case. You can sign into the correct account in Settings>Store>Apple ID. Tap the ID and then sign out, then sign in with the correct ID.

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App store refuses to download small sized apps , when i try to download a small sized app the app store gives me the following message "xxx failed to download , use purchase to try again " and when i go to the purchase page and try to re-download the same message appears again , but with large sized apps like 15 mb or more everything works fine , please help me to resolve this issue i have tried to clear temporary file and logging out and back into the store and i have the latest version of iTunes and my os x version is 10.8.5

Try the following option:
Sign out of the App Store (in the Store menu)
Quit the App Store
In Finder, under Go in the Menu bar select Go to folder...
Paste in the following "~/Library/Caches/ "
It will take you to your User's Library/Caches folder. Delete com.apple.appstore
Launch the App Store.
Thanks to Eric Root for these steps.
If this fails, contact Apple:
Mac App Store - Contact Support - Apple Support
http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact/

App Store Update shows App already installed, but still keeps bugging me

App Store Updates continually shows Apple Remote Desktop V 3.7.2 as an update. When I click on UPDATE, I get the message:
"Remote Desktop is already installed on this computer. Choose Software Update from the Apple menu to check for available updates."
"Software Update from the Apple menu" no longer exists since upgrading to Yosemite. Besides, that's what the UPDATE button does.
I looked at other discussions, and tried the advice there, with no luck:
I downloaded Remote Desktop Version 3.7.2 again, and it would not install, saying a newer version already exists.
I turned off Applications in Spotlight, then turned it back on. I even restarted before turning it back on.
I went to delete "~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore" but there isn't one.
There's got to be a way get rid of this. No it's bugging me in Notifications to update software that won't update, because it does not need updating.

I can't find the disc, which was installed at least 6 years ago, when I was living in another city. Remote Desktop Admin was very expensive at the time. $299 if I remember correctly.
I've since deleted every file with remotedesktopadmin in the name, from system and user libraries. Restored 3.7.2 from the external drive, and the problem persists.
It would appear to be a software bug in App Store since I installed Yosemite. In six years of using Remote Desktop I've never had a problem until Yosemite install.
3.6 would not run because it checks for updates first. 3.7.2 runs just fine, and the App knows there is no update - otherwise it would behave like 3.6 and require an update. It's only App Store Update that erroneously indicates the App needs updating. If I deleted all plists, preferences, receipts, etc. what does App Store Update use to determine App update status?
Moreover, if I did not buy it on the App Store (there was no App Store six years ago), why is it showing up at all? I have lots of software that I bought directly from the vendor, and I don't get erroneous update messages for those.
Even stranger, when I looked at trying to buy a new copy in the App Store, instead of Buy, the icon said "Open". Somehow App Store thinks I bought it from the App Store, even though I didn't? I clicked Open, and while the App was running, the erroneous update message STILL persisted.

How do get rid of the twitter app when there's no trace of it except for update notices on app store and that too with a stranger's id ??

How do get rid of the twitter app when there's no trace of it except for update notices on app store and that too with a stranger's id ??

ayk74,
so you have no idea where some of your installed software originally came from?

App Store Update keeps showing even after installing

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the MacBook air is late 2010 with OS X 10.9 Mavericks. The update acts like it is installing but, it still shows up in the app store update even after rebooting.
any help would be appreciated.

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I have an Epson Artison 810, and since Mountain Lion was installed, my iMac (when waking from sleep or rebooting) keeps asking me if I'd like to download an update for this printer. If I click Yes, I'm taken to the App Store, where, after waiting WAY too long, it tells me my system's up to date, and that no updates are available.

After upgrading to 10.9.5, the App Store "Update" button stopped working.

After upgrading from 10.9.4 to 10.9.5 tonight, the App Store "Update" button seems to have stopped working. The App Store says I have one update available (Xcode version 6.0.1), but when I click "Update," the button turns white for a few seconds, and then it turns back to gray without doing anything. I've tried the same steps after restarting my computer twice.
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New iPhone5 app store update says K2HAppPurchasePage

Brand new iPhone5 updated from a 4
App Store, Updates now shows a title across the top: "P2.SoftwareUpdates..."
also shows "K2HAppPurchasesPage.Title..." kind of like it used to say "purchased apps" (When activated, this screen looks pretty weird too.)
also shows "K2HSoftwareUpdatesL..." within each of the apps that have an update
Does anyone have any idea what this means? If anything?

OK, so i just answered my own question -- do the update to iOS 6.0.1

Wildly erratic App Store update flagging

Apart from the permissions-scrambling (I think) problem, there is also another weirdness manifesting:
"X" number of apps appear as badging the App Store icon; I update one, then wait for it to finish updating; I then go back to the App Store icon, to find that "Y" number of updates has vanished from the badge/update page. The "missing" updates usually reappear after a while.
The above is a bit different from another problem that has been reported, i.e., of apps being updated via the iPhone, then going back to the App Store on the iPhone to find the updates still sitting there, or reappearing suddenly several updates later (I update apps one at a time so that I can read the authors' update texts, if they've supplied them).
I am not only fed up with the erratic behaviour of the App Store, I am fed up with the time I've wasted, and my time that has been soaked up bleating and whining about the App Store problems here. Not to mention the "apps not working after an update" permissions issue. And even more ticked off because of the data I've lost because the iTunes backup facility appears to be broken as well (as of 7.7.1, at least).
Time for me to get a life, methinks.
Also time for Apple to get some fixes out into the wild ASAP.

Well, well. I was just about to post to this to say that the iPhone 2.0.1 software/firmware update had fixed things. It did for about 6 hours, but after another App Store update, the AS flags started playing up after an update, and then the downloaded apps and the music became unusable again.
This is really, really not funny. I spent hours last night installing the update and repopulating the phone with apps and musics, and I'm back to square 1. Yet again.
Has anyone else had the similar experience of updating the phone to 2.0.1 and have the apps die again?
I dare not ask if anyone has a fix, other than being able to hack the iPhone file system by hand and manually change the permissions via a telnet session running on a Mac (or Linux?) box. And doing this, if possible should probably do nasty things to the warranty.
I'm now going to mothball the iPhone until there's a known robust fix to these problems, and go back to my old Sony Ericsson (and hope that the iPhone's SIM card will work in the SE). I've wasted far too much time on this to continue. Bad show, Apple. -10/10 and no elephant stamp and gold star for you.

How do you get rid of app store updates ?

How do you get rid of app store updates ? I've got too many updates someone please tell me .

Welll... you could just delete the apps, which would also eliminate the updates...

In app store updates, i get a blank page

On my iPhone 5, it appears that I have several updates, but when I go to the App Store (update tab), it's just blank. I re-started the phone to no avail. I'm on a wifi connection, so I don't think it's a connection problem and I CAN see new apps at the store. Any ideas?

Hey all
Like some of you have said turn the phone off and on again if that doesn't work reset your phone ill leave a article below of how too
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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I just got my iphone not too long ago. I updated yesterday via iTunes the applications on my iphone. the app store still shows one of the apps, numbers as needing updating but the application is already updated. How do I clear this spurious flag that should not be there?

However this does point to a bug in the app store update feature. There should be some way to force a check of applications that updated but are still showing as needed in the app store.

Remove the App Store update Badge notifications

How can I remove the App Store update Badge notifications?

you CAN delete them it has to do with metadata!! google metadata removal of notifications and there will be plenty of explanations, Also look it up on youtube, I just finished watching a video on it!! there are always ways to remove things on any operating system, Just some are easier than others. if you don't know or only have wrong info to give then just keep your trap shut!!!! obviously there is a way to go around everything, Hackers have taught sony and the government all about this! (common sense) so if you don't know move along!! obviously I'm not advocating hacking, What I am advocating is people in chat rooms judging others or giving misleading info just to mess with others. You don't have anything more important to do than to try and misguide an innocent until proven guilty user with a question? Just because they don't want to update an app doesn't mean they are "doing something illegal:" many apps with updates lose features and actually makes an app that we use to enjoy very much, now not so great!! you all know I'm right because anyone with a smartphone has been through this, Do i update or not? we've all had that question. and as far as apple is concerned, had everyone "updated" there software last year when they rolled out the new what i like to call SECURITY BREACH update a lot more than the millions that were already exposed would be ****** off too!! Software update for the most part is a good thing, they fix bugs and allow our machines to run smoother, but don't for one moment think that the software updates are without flaws and certainly don't think they "the apps companies" have your best interest in mind!!

App Store Update print too small--magnify app?

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