My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Customizing the Trackpad

If you have one of the latest aluminum body Macintosh laptops, you'll have a unique trackpad that doubles as a giant button. (If you have an older plastic Macintosh laptop, you'll have a standard trackpad with a single button.)

The trackpad accepts four different finger gestures:

• One Finger Pressing one finger on the trackpad acts like clicking the left button of an ordinary mouse.

• Two Fingers Sliding two fingers horizontally or vertically scrolls in that direction, much like clicking the horizontal or vertical scrollbars of a window.

• Three Fingers Sliding three fingers horizontally across the trackpad (left or right) displays the next item in certain programs, such as iPhoto.

• Four Fingers Sliding four fingers up displays the ...