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Poor man's version
Authored by: jeb1138 on Nov 14, '02 03:32:34PM

Yep that is cool! It's not really the equivalent of what uControl+USBOverdrive does though, because the mouse pointer moves when you scroll & so you run out of scrolling space after just a short distance, like in Acrobat. I've known about & tried the Explorer trick for a while, but trust me uControl is a lot more useful!

And, of course, cmd+click only works in Explorer (the tip I posted is really cool for navigating the Finder -- especially column view -- and save/open dialog boxes, and in any document where easy horizontal scrolling would be nice, like coding) and cmd+click+scroll+move-the mouse-when-you-run-out-of-space gets a little "fingery" on laptops (with uControl you can set it so you just hold down one key, like "fn", for instance).

Not to be rude or anything -- that's another really cool tip, but I think if you try my suggestion you'll find it's a totally different experience. And considering that both apps I used in my tip are free (well, USBOverdrive has a pop-up when you change settings, but it's no big hassle) I'd call mine a Poor man's version too! ;) Well, that's what I think anyway!



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