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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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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 ...

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