OS X Magnificence
I accidentally just discovered something awesome about OS X. If you have a touchpad, hold the control key with your left hand, place your right pointer finger in the middle of the touchpad in a solitary position, and slide upwards on the trackpad with your right middle-finger. The effect is the entire OS zooming in and out. This should be really amazing with Leopard's resolution independence.
Here is a screenshot in actual-size:
Comments
Dec 10, 2006 at 05:47 PM
I just recently had an accidental find myself. I have the MacBook Pro and if you hold two fingers on the touchpad and click, it's a secondary click (right click for 2-button mouse users). i don't know if this works the same on powerbooks.
Dec 10, 2006 at 09:35 PM
Not working for me on a powerbook g4. do you have an intel based mac?
Dec 10, 2006 at 10:10 PM
I do have an Intel based mac. I didn't consider that this might be a hardware dependent feature, but maybe older trackpads aren't equiped to distingush between 2 fingers. This trick also scrolls windows, when the control key isn't pressed.
Dec 23, 2006 at 05:18 PM
Funny, I just found this one a few days ago too -- although I discovered it holding option and using the scroll wheel on a Logitech mouse. Basically the two finger scrolling simulates a mousewheel on the trackpad, so anything you can do with a scroll wheel you should be able to do with your two fingers (and vice-versa).
Dec 29, 2006 at 03:58 PM
Ah, that could be. I'll try it on my intel at work when I get back.
Jan 25, 2007 at 06:21 PM
Oh sweet! I use the apple+option+8 method to zoom a lot, but this is a lot smoother. I'm guessing it's specific to Macs that have the two-finger scrolling feature, but I think the iScroll2 hack should enable it on some pre-2005 powerbooks.
Anyway, I met you today at Barbarian and somehow ended up browsing through your blog as a result. Hi!
Jan 26, 2007 at 01:36 AM
Hi!