Touchpad tips and shortcuts

By Ricky Buchanan • April 3, 2008

Further to our recent article about scrolling tips you might not have known, the Apple Knowledgebase yielded up an article for those who have the new touchpads found on the 2008 MacBook Pro and on the MacBook Air.

These new touchpads are based on the same technology that’s in the iPhone and iPod Touch and they can do far more than just move your mouse pointer and scroll. They can scroll horizontally, use a pinching movement for zooming in or out, use two finger rotating for rotating pictures or preview pages, and a three finger “swipe” movement for moving forwards and backwards in places like Safari!

Does anybody know if these gestures can be configured to do different things in different applications? I very very much wish they’d release a peripheral trackpad so I could use one without paying for an iPod Touch which I can’t afford!

Website: Useful keyboard and trackpad tips and shortcuts

- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 33 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websitse she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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