Who needs a Mighty Mouse? Hold shift for horizontal scrolling
John Gruber linked the blog of Mike Rohde, a visual designer who discovered a slick scrolling trick built into Mac OS X: with a standard scrolling mouse, you can hold the shift key in most apps to scroll horizontally. Mike cites his day job apps like Photoshop and Illustrator, but this seems to work in NetNewsWire, Firefox and iTunes as well. I'm not sure if this is a 10.4 Tiger-only thing (anyone care to share?), but it's a handy little trick for those who aren't exactly enamored with the Mighty Mouse.
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hi there. i'd like to configure the mouse to be able to zoom and scroll w/ custom commands (i.e. instead of holding ALT to zoom in and SHIFT and CRTL to go vert/horiz, i'd like to use CTRL to zoom, etc.) so i've tried going to Keyboard Shortcuts but i cannot seem to find these commands listed/available for custom edit - might you know how to configure???
October 24 2006 at 11:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThere are literally hundreds of keyboard and mouse tricks. I discover a new one just about every week.
September 29 2006 at 3:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyim new in mac but when start using my macbook discover this horizontal scrolling, it work on almost every applications except java-based at lest in my case
September 27 2006 at 1:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPopover animated ads in the middle of the webpage are NOT COOL.
September 25 2006 at 7:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis works with two finger scrolling on my G4 iBook too! Try it!
Hold down Shift and drag horozontaly using two fingers.
I'm a YUGE fan of multi-button mouse functionality, and as such, terribly fond of the "meat and potatoes" design of my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical, side buttons and all.
However, on my MacBook Pro with a trackpad, while it's nice to be able to use two fingers to scroll, I find I miss having a right-click, as well as other multi-button mouse fancies, so I resort a lot to keyboard shortcuts. For example, holding Option while tapping the Up and Down arrows as I make my way through web pages.
Alas, holding Shift to scroll horizontally doesn't appear to work on this Firefox on a PC--but I wish it did! :)
Woohoo! At last I can get back 2d scrolling after my mighty mouse decided to stop scrolling at all (and so got binned).
September 24 2006 at 7:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGotta love these small tricks, :) Nice!
September 23 2006 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd as we all know, if *some* people knew about this, that means everyone else is a blind idiot and/or fool! Why can't everyone else stay as on top of things as I am, and know and read all the same articles, news bits and software tips as I do? *Gawd,* I can't believe there are such morons out there who didn't know the same thing I did.. it makes me weep for humanity!
Get a grip guys, stuff like this happens all the time. Some people know about some things, while others didn't. Now they do. Instead of being smugly condescending, try being happy that people are learning more about a great operating system.
Please.
I belive this feature was introduced with column view in Finder. Pretty old stuff!
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