Track pad gestures? Big feature of Lion?
Gawd -- haven't you looked in your System Preferences in OS X.6.x?
Or are their more of the stupid things?
Mind you -- I've turned most of them off because:
(a) I can't be bothered remembering them. Even my
daughter, who goes through our monthly allocation
of 50GB of Internet between 8am and 8pm in 20
days (with unlimited GBs overnight) has turned
off half of them on her MacBook Pro because
they're just a waste of time.
(b) The trackpad is far too sensitive, and I
can't see how to desensitize it (I think there
was a preference for that in earlier OS Xes),
resulting in accidental selection, movement and
addition of contextual menu stuff to content (I
don't know how many bookmarks I have in a long
document I've just finished in NWP which I had to
write partly using the trackpad; and I'm going to
take some considerably time sorting out my iPhoto
libraries again after trackpadding through them
in PNG).
(c) I'd much rather use a practical mouse -- my
$15 optical two button+wheel
USB-with-retractable-tail mini-mouse. Spot on
performance, so light I can move it with a finger
tip, accurate, immediate response.
AND its battery never runs out because it doesn't have one!
Oh, and it fits the hand, not like that Apple
crap (there you go, Brian). Apple have never
actually had a good mouse. :)
Did I mention that the regional shopping mall
near me startled me last Friday with signs
announcing: "Apple Store Open in Fashion Bridge,
Level 2".
There you go -- that's what we're talking about.
Apple, a fashion accessory! Apple has already
been promoting the new Macs as "games ready".
The mighty little computer -- the tool for the rest of us -- is no more.
Cheers, geoff
At 6:08 PM +0200 15/8/11, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote:
>On 14.08.2011, at 01:09, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>> At 9:32 AM +0100 13/8/11, Doug Browne wrote:
>>>
>>> () 'Gestures' opens up a whole new way of operating my Mac.
>>
> > Huh? Haven't we always been able to do this?
>Or perhaps I'm thinking of just the bottom right
>corner. So now you can do it with any corner.
>Wow!
>
>Gestures are what you do with your fingers on a
>Trackpad (tapping, sweeping, sliding, with one,
>two, three or four fingers.) It's the best
>feature in Lion that I am aware of. It saves you
>a *lot* of time and using it in Safari, for
>example, is a great fun, no back and forward
>clicking with the mouse anymore, you just use
>your fingers as if you were browsing a book or a
>newspaper. Here is a list of Gestures:
>
>http://www.danrodney.com/mac/multitouch.html
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