Jitouch - More Gestures For Your MacBook

By Ricky Buchanan • December 4, 2009

Jitouch is an application which adds eight new sets of gestures to the MacBook multi-touch trackpads. These include:

Switch to the next or previous tab (for Web browsers only)
Open a link in a new tab (for Web browsers only)
Minimize a window
Zoom a window
Move and resize a window
Close a window or tab
Open a recently closed tab (for Firefox only)
Quit an application

These could be especially useful for trackpad users who can now do these things easily and quickly without needing to use the keyboard. You can see how simple these are to use with the demonstration video:

The Jitouch website says that they will soon be releasing a version which will add gesture capabilities to the Magic Mouse, but for now the program is only useful for MacBook users with multi-touch capable trackpads.

Jitouch costs just US$5.49. Part of the proceeds will be donated to help poor children in Thailand, where the programmers live.

Website: Jitouch

- Ricky Buchanan

Categories: New Software, OS X, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Mouse Users, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver
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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 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 websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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Just another why I love my Mac! It’s been just over a year since I left windows for good. Glad to see they keep coming up with new ideas.
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