The iPhone may definitely have people jealous when it comes to the scrolling and multi-touch gestures -- many people may very well want this feature on a Mac. Well, with Smart Scroll X, you can get one step closer to the iPhone's scrolling feature. The "Super Wheel" gives your Mac's trackpad an iPhone-like scrolling feature. It allows you to control many different trackpad setting with the simple system preferences plug-in. Another cool feature is the "Grab Scroll," which allows you to grab a window and "fling" it across the screen. Smart Scroll X was rated 4/5 by Macworld's Mac Gems. It was also recently updated to work with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2. Smart Scroll is avaiable for $19 from the developer's website; a free trial is also available.
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2-19-2008 @ 2:22PM
Todd Sieling said...
I tried this out yesterday. It makes a difference, but not enough to be a must-have, at least not for me. I found I kept trying to arrest a scroll in progress by holding the mouse wheel, where it felt natural to start a scroll by flicking the mouse wheel, there's not a way to stop the scroll that's as natural-feeling. I guess it's neat, but not $19 neat.
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2-19-2008 @ 2:38PM
Xflip said...
I just tried it. It's fun but quite pricy.
What sucks is that the SuperWheel function only works with both the trackpad and the mouse wheel.
Continued scrolling using something like inertia makes sense on a trackpad, as it feels like flicking through papers but it feels awkward when i use my mouse wheel that has quite some friction and stops rotating immediately.
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2-19-2008 @ 3:37PM
The Chad said...
get a frictionless logitech. the VX nano is the shiznit, and scrolls forever
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2-22-2008 @ 1:26PM
Edwin Moss said...
For iPhone users this app is very nice. However, the install seems to have interrupted my Growl notifications. Anyone else experiencing this?
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