Finder sidebar text size

is there a way to make the text in the sidebar of the finder larger
My poor old eyes are struggling ?

i too agree. i want to be able to customize every font on every application. Even the toolbars in Safari are too small for my liking and my screen is only about 24 inches away.
leave it to apple to take out something that we all have gotten used to. let's send apple some more feedback.
i do like some things though, like spaces. i used to always click the wrong window. I'd like it if they'd make the window edges more defined though. i mainly bought leopard for time machine. i hate making backups.
Anyway, the video on the apple website is, to me, much better than the paper manual to help you understand how everything works. if you haven't seen it, check it out here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour. it's what convinced me to buy.

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