Comments on: Trackpad Zoom http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/ Mon, 28 May 2012 09:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shoops http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320435 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:17:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320435 Hey! We are using neo office due to various circumstances and the macbook we use makes the neoffice page zoom like crazy. which is driving us crazy! I cannot find out how to deactivate this option. Can you suggest this for neoffice or do we have to deactivate the trackpad option on the macbook?? Thanks!!

]]> By: Matt http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320434 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:04:47 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320434 Similarly Alt-Cmd and ‘+’ will zoom in (if you have it turned on in the universal access prefs). I use that for zooming in on my Mac Mini media centre when the fonts or a video are a bit too small to see from the couch.

Another nice one is simulating the ‘delete’ key on laptop keyboards that only have backspace…Fn-backspace

]]> By: abelara http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320433 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:49:42 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320433 it does work on the macbooks. and i use it when watching streaming videos and such to make the video “almost” full screen just by zooming the whole screen.

i also zoom when watching a dvd with a wide angle ratio and i’d like it to fill the whole screen. i zoom until it does.

it’s also cool just to show PC friends. :-)

]]> By: Nino http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320432 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:09:50 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320432 Like Justin I discovered it by accident, but then turned it off, since I can’t seem to figure when and why I would use it.

Also, it only seems to work with Powerbook/Macbook Pro from what I can tell. At least they don’t offer this feature on iBook (don’t know about the Macbook)

]]> By: Alef Arendsen http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320431 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:30:52 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320431 This has also helped me a lot during presentations and code demos I’m frequently doing. People are always asking me what kind of hack it is ;-).

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320430 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:11:12 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320430 This is very useful for finding single pixel gaps in CSS layouts.

]]> By: Justin http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320429 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:12:47 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320429 Heh heh, yeah.

That was one of the first things I discovered when I switched to mac, completely by accident. I had my bluetooth Mighty Mouse paired, and I had control down, because I hadn’t yet got used to using the  key instead of control for keyboard shortcuts. I bumped the wheel of the mouse and…what the hell? My whole screen zoomed in!

I freaked out for a moment before I realised it was just a cool accessibility feature.

]]> By: Ian http://gigaom.com/apple/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320428 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:12:30 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/25/trackpad-zoom/#comment-320428 Gold! It works with a Mighty Mouse scroll ball and Control as well!

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