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Easier use of the touch pad on laptops System
When having to use the mouse pad on my power book (e.g. air plane trips), I found like most people, that is much worse than using a real mouse. I happened, though, to discover an easier way of using the pad. When sliding my index finder on the pad, I then would lift it up, at the same time touch the opposite corner with my middle finger. This very quickly moved the mouse across the screen. Although it might not be so accurate, when going from the dock to my hard drive icon, it is much faster.

[Editor's note: I tried this a bit on my iBook, and while I could get the cursor to jump rapidly, I couldn't get it to reliably jump to the bottom of the screen. Your mileage may vary...]
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Quickly moving mouse...
Authored by: nathanst on Nov 07, '02 03:32:53PM

This works well on my powerbook, but I do it a little differently.

I tap 2 fingers in succession on the trackpad, where the first finger isn't lifted up until the second finger is down. This moves the mouse across the screen in a line corresponding to the angle of where my fingers hit the trackpad. The farther apart you fingers are, the farther the cursor will travel.

You can do it as slow or as fast as you want...



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Quickly moving mouse...
Authored by: jjones on Nov 07, '02 04:56:30PM

If you need a speedier trackpad than the system allows, download MouseZoom from :

http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/mousezoom.html

It is a prefs pane that you just drop into your preferences folder. It shows up with your other preferences and allows you to set the trackpad or external mouse tracking to "scary fast" speeds.

free and functional.



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another trackpad tip
Authored by: BMarsh on Nov 08, '02 12:22:15AM

almost the opposite of the initial hit, this tip helps with fine control

roll your finger rather than slide it, this helps hit small specific things like checkboxes.
this has helped myself, and others I know with trackpads.



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