2 finger scroll for laptop

September 17, 2006 5:04 AM

I recently bought my older brothers (splatta) laptop (apple Titanium PowerBook G4) because he got the new macbook pro. I saw that he could use two fingers on the pad to scroll, and was wondering if anyone could recomend a good program that i could download it to my laptop to use.
posted by The Boy to technology (5 comments total)

Try SideTrack. If you have a titanium (not aluminum) Powerbook, you can't do 2-finger scrolling (hardware doesn't support it,) but SideTrack does some nice things instead (right side of the trackpad for scroll, etc.)

If your PB is newer but there is no option for two finger scrolling in Sys Prefs, try iScroll.
posted by neustile at 5:27 AM on September 17, 2006

I used to use uControl to provide something sort of similar. It lets you hold down the Function key (bottom left corner of the keyboard) to turn the trackpad into a scrolling device. It's actually very easy to master since you can just tap it quickly with your left pinky (leaving your left hand in typing position) while scrolling with your right hand.
posted by bcwinters at 5:58 AM on September 17, 2006

iScroll2 - specifically does 2 finger scrolling (w/ older iBooks and PowerBooks).
posted by ~ at 6:57 AM on September 17, 2006 [1 favorite]

Dang. Sorry Neustile.
posted by ~ at 6:57 AM on September 17, 2006

Seconding SideTrack. My favorite feature is that it let me set a hot spot in the upper right hand corner of my touchpad as a right-click. Now when I want a contextual menu, I don't have to control click, I just tap the corner and voila, there it is.

The only downside I've found is that is sometimes take a second or three for my cursor to wake up after coming out of sleep mode. Other than that though, I highly recommend it.
posted by quin at 10:32 AM on September 17, 2006