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Use your thumb
Authored by: hamarkus on Sep 26, '07 03:04:24PM
My comment was probably a bit terse. It is just that I have seen a lot of people using two hands operating a trackpad (one hand for the trackpad, the other for the trackpad button) or lifting their index finger from the trackpad to press the trackpad button. That is what I understood under 'finger acrobatics' as I had not realised that the comment I was replying to came from the same person that submitted the hint.
I HATE the damn trackpad button, and I'd always, ALWAYS accidentally relieve a little too much pressure at a bad time and undo what i was trying to do.
With the Al-Books that happened to me initially as well (I 'dropped' things in inconvenient places). I now happens to me very rarely, I just managed to train my thumb to always press hard enough. Whenever I try to use a computer where clicking on the trackpad is enabled I constantly (like several times per minute) click into the wrong places. Even just descending my index finger onto the trackpad to start moving the cursor, or just flicking the cursor in one direction is causing clicks. Not even talking about typing, if every fifth word causes you to accidentally click somewhere, then this is not a sustainable situation.

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