myappleguide.com - 2/13/2009
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When Steve Jobs introduced the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros at Apple's media event last October , he announced the new glass trackpad with two four finger gestures for OS X Leopard. Well it seems Apple has even more four finger gestures planned, which may coincide with Snow ...
macrumors.com - 2/13/2009
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macrumors.com —
MyAppleGuide discovered an unused preference pane in the
version of Mac OS X Leopard that ships with...
Apple's new unibody MacBook Pros. The preference pane shows that Apple was planning on offering customers a way to assign different function...
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Customizable 4-Finger Mutli-Touch Gestures Planned by Apple
appleinsider.com - 2/10/2009
appleinsider.com - 2/10/2009
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appleinsider.com —
As part of Apple's plans to help trim
the footprint of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the...
new system will cease the customary installation of several gigabytes of printer drivers and instead load only the files necessary for existing devices, relying on ...
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Apple's Snow Leopard to load printer drivers on demand
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Customizable Multi-touch Gestures File Found in OS X Leopard
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
A recent discovery in OS X Leopard’s system files sheds some light on Apple’s intentions on letting users customize their own four-finger swipe gestures. While their has been talks on software updates allowing users of older machines to get enabled gestures, customizing your own has never before been an option.
MyAppleGuide originally found the file (though we first saw it over at MacRumors), which we opened up in Interface Builder to snap the screenshot below.
While none of ...
MacBooks could see custom four-finger gestures
Macworld —
... You find such interesting things when you dig through the dark recesses of your file structure: hopes, dreams, ancient artifacts of great power, and even the occasional piece of unimplemented software. A blogger over at MyAppleGuide discovered, secreted away in OS X’s Trackpad pane, an interface that would allow users of multitouch-capable trackpads—such as those on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros—to define their own four-finger gestures. The file’s a .nib, which just means that it’s simply the interface part of the equation—there’s no code hooked up to it. But I’ve ...
MacBooks could see custom four-finger gestures
MacUser —
... You find such interesting things when you dig through the dark recesses of your file structure: hopes, dreams, ancient artifacts of great power, and even the occasional piece of unimplemented software. A blogger over at MyAppleGuide discovered, secreted away in OS X’s Trackpad pane, an interface that would allow users of multitouch-capable trackpads—such as those on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros—to define their own four-finger gestures. The file’s a .nib, which just means that it’s simply the interface part of the equation—there’s no code hooked up to it. But I’ve ...
Unused trackpad pref hints at more customizable gestures
Infinite Loop —
... One of the niftiest features of Apple's recent notebooks has to be the multitouch trackpad, as it lets you do a lot more before you have to break out the right-click "button" or the mouse thumb. Still, the gestures don't offer many customization options other than turning them on or off, but according to MyAppleGuide, an unused preference pane suggests that more gesture customization may be coming to Mac OS X in the future. ...
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