Scroll wheel on laptop (was RE: MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More))

2005-08-05 Thread Anne Cartwright
I really loved the PowerBook 100 with its trackball. Anne On Friday, August 5, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Bryan Forrest wrote: > The latest Mac PowerBooks are supposed to have "smart" trackpads, > which allow scrolling if you drag two fingers across them instead of > just one. Some people like it, s

Scroll wheel on laptop (was RE: MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More))

2005-08-05 Thread Bill Rising
On Aug 5, 2005, at 9:32, Rex Baldazo wrote: >> Now if only they would put the scroll wheel on the laptop too :) >> > > Haven't seen it on Apple products but my HP laptop has a mousepad > where > a narrow strip on the right is in fact a scroll strip. If you slide > your finger vertically along t

MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More)

2005-08-05 Thread Ed Wiser
What you want to use is Sidetrack. www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/ I have been using it for a couple of years now on PowerBooks works great. You can tap on a corner to get your right click or make other corners do a shortcut. Great piece of software. You can sit what side of your track pad

Scroll wheel on laptop (was RE: MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More))

2005-08-05 Thread Bryan Forrest
The latest Mac PowerBooks are supposed to have "smart" trackpads, which allow scrolling if you drag two fingers across them instead of just one. Some people like it, some don't, and some find it buggy. Bryan (yes, I'm still around) Forrest On Aug 5, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote: >> N

MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More)

2005-08-05 Thread Henri Yandell
Every OS X already has two mouse buttons, click and ctrl-click. Apple are just finally accepting that it's simpler to put the ctrl on the mouse and not the keyboard if you're going to argue that a mouse is a necessary device. Then again, was that just a feature that turned up in OS X as a precursor

Scroll wheel on laptop (was RE: MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More))

2005-08-05 Thread Rex Baldazo
> Now if only they would put the scroll wheel on the laptop too :) Haven't seen it on Apple products but my HP laptop has a mousepad where a narrow strip on the right is in fact a scroll strip. If you slide your finger vertically along the right-hand edge of the mousepad it scrolls the window jus

MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More)

2005-08-02 Thread Jack Barton
On 2/8/05 2:52 PM, "Jerry Yeager" wrote: > Hmm, well it can be programmed to act as a one button mouse if you > want. It could be useful for those converting from being windroids to > being Mac users that for strange reason think you just gotta have > multi-button meeces roaming around the deskto

MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More)

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Yeager
Hmm, well it can be programmed to act as a one button mouse if you want. It could be useful for those converting from being windroids to being Mac users that for strange reason think you just gotta have multi-button meeces roaming around the desktop to get work done. I wonder if Apple will rele