{"id":33,"date":"2006-04-11T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/2006\/04\/11\/scrolling-trackpad\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T02:59:43","slug":"scrolling-trackpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Scrolling Trackpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/scrollpad.gif\" align=\"right\" style=\"border:15px solid black; margin: 5px 0 10px 20px; padding: 0;\"\/>Hands-down (pun intended), the design feature with the largest impact for me on the MacBook Pro has been the scrolling trackpad. <\/p>\n<p>I have disabled the trackpad on every notebook computer I have owned. I was looking for the setting to disable it on the MBP when I found the &#8220;Use two fingers to scroll&#8221; setting on the same pane. I checked, tried it, and I will certainly not be uncomfortable without a mouse on the MacBook Pro again.<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone that the company who brought us the solid state touch pad of the 3rd generation iPod scroll wheel (the one that didn&#8217;t have to move, it just sensed where your finger went) would bring an innovation like this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: It drives me crazy now when I switch back over to the Dell to grab a few files that were left behind. I don&#8217;t have a mouse plugged in over there, so I use the track-pad. It drives me nuts when I drag two fingers down and it doesn&#8217;t scroll for me. I appreciate this new feature more and more each time I switch back to the old machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands-down (pun intended), the design feature with the largest impact for me on the MacBook Pro has been the scrolling trackpad. I have disabled the trackpad on every notebook computer I have owned. I was looking for the setting to disable it on the MBP when I found the &#8220;Use two fingers to scroll&#8221; setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fribble","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}