On Nov 22, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
The 5300 trackpad is indeed tappable, but you need a shareware app
called ClickPad II to make it work that way.
A bit hard to find these days, but it's out there.
Well, by definition, all trackpads _are_ tappable (otherwise they
wouldn't
Bruce Johnson writes,
Different skin chemistry, most likely. I seem to have a lot fewer
problems with tappable pads than most people. I also seem to have a lot
fewer problems with trackpads than most people. Virtually everyone here
with a laptop drags around a mouse, and are quite amazed when
I am a peculiar case. I was amazed by the first PowerBook trackball
and since then, it was 1991, I replaced all my desktops mice with
Kensington trackballs.
Then I liked the trackpad so much that I now use small Wacom tablets
also for dragging, tapping, clicking etc..
In conclusion I am a no
On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote:
I am a peculiar case. I was amazed by the first PowerBook trackball
and since then, it was 1991, I replaced all my desktops mice with
Kensington trackballs.
Then I liked the trackpad so much that I now use small Wacom tablets
also for
Count me in as a no mouse guy, too!
For years, as I was changing desktop computers, I migrated my
Kensington 4 button Trackball.
I started liking the trackball when I first got my PowerBook 165.
Time passed, and I bought a 540c. It was love at first touch. I even
retired my Kensington Trackball
I prefer the trackpad. I also get a strange look when I do NOT want
to use the mouse - even if somebody else brings a mouse with their
laptop, and I need to use it for some reason, I got straight for the
trackpad.
I had laptops BEFORE desktops, so I'm kindof backwards to everybody
else. I
What I also find amusing is watching people that have never used a
laptop before fumble with a trackpad (there are surprising amount of
people that have never touched a laptop - mostly people who buy $200
brand new eMachines) and they just don't get it.
People will put more than one finger on
Have you tried positioning the arrow using only one finger on the
trackpad and then leaving the arrow there and clicking? I use my right
thumb to click and hold and then my right index finger to drag,
sometimes using strokes. But for accurate positioning of the arrow
point, simply moving the
Daniel Palka writes,
I had laptops BEFORE desktops, so I'm kindof backwards to everybody
else. I was trackball first, then trackpad, THEN I had a mouse.
Wow. So when you first got a mouse, was it hard for you to get used to it
in the same way the trackpad was for me when I first got my
Daniel Palka writes,
What I also find amusing is watching people that have never used a
laptop before fumble with a trackpad (there are surprising amount of
people that have never touched a laptop - mostly people who buy $200
brand new eMachines) and they just don't get it.
Well, I fumbled
Donna Hood Pointer writes,
Have you tried positioning the arrow using only one finger on the
trackpad and then leaving the arrow there and clicking? I use my right
thumb to click and hold and then my right index finger to drag,
sometimes using strokes.
You mean to click with the trackpad? No.
I prefer trackballs too. Who has enough clean desk space to move a mouse
around? :)
Later.Howard
Computer n. A pocket calculator with a glandular problem.
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Hi all,
please let me add my (very long) 2 Euro-Cents and forgive me the
Outlook-induced top-posting.
I never had a Mac until 2001, and now I've been through a lot of Macs,
including very old ones, plus additional PCs, both desktops and laptops.
IMHO, you should differ. At the beginning of the
I discovered a neat feature in IE 5 a few years ago, and it is what
keeps me using that browser on my PowerBooks even when NS 7 is
available for OS 8/9. If you hold down the Command key and
click-and-hold on the page, you can drag the page around with the
pointer (BTW, this feature works in
What exactly IS the history of the trackpad/touchpad?
I was under the impression for the longest time that the PowerBook 500
series was one of the first laptops anywhere that had one.
On Nov 23, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Alex Wenzel wrote:
At the beginning of the Nineties, I had one of the
*very* first
Andrew Kershaw writes,
NS 7 is available for OS 8/9.
Please give me an URL so I can download this, please, oh please. I've
been trying to find it on and off for weeks.
Thanks in advance,
~Yersinia.
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Small Dog Electronics
Hi,
The most popular Microsofts are here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=encategoryid=5
Yes, IE 5.1.7 ist the best browser for MacOS 8-9.x. Also Quicktimeplugin
and Flash/Shockwaveplugin are working.
I like the Black Powerbook style :). Using text-buttons there is
manfred writes,
The most popular Microsofts are here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=encategoryid=5
Yes, IE 5.1.7 ist the best browser for MacOS 8-9.x. Also Quicktimeplugin
and Flash/Shockwaveplugin are working.
I'm sorry, I must have made the mistake of not being
Go there:
http://www.netscape.ca/browsers/7/download/index.jsp
and click MAC OS 9 users click here
Now if you, or any fellow lister, can direct me to the download of
Netscape 7 for OS 8/9, I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you :-D
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