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Seriously?

O.o

I dont' know about anyone else but this has been known since the air came out. It was in the keynote, on apple.com, and documented (I'm pretty sure but too lazy to look) on TUAW when it came out.

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Nothing silly about it.

I have an MBA, and without the video's it would be very difficult to describe a one finger drag, and a one finger drag lock.

A short paragraph might do it, but preference panes are not the place for help files. The videos show me both what I am setting, and how to use it in a simple and totally intelligible way.

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Is it just me or does it seem that the swipe is backwards in that video, or even in the MacBook Air in general. Swipe left to right and the picture comes in from right to left.

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I actually had a hard time with the sensitivity settings on the MBA - I would inadvertently trigger clicks all the time. I can't tell if its a bum laptop, a firmware issue that will be refined over time or simply user error.

Any tips would be appreciated,

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You're right dewey. The other day I was playing with an iPod touch swiping the photos. When I tried out the three finger swipe on the Macbook Air it worked the opposite way for pictures in Preview. I can understand why they do this (as the scroll bar is actually scrolling down the list) but I thought conistency across the devices would be more important.
How does it behave in fullscreen on the Air?
I prefer the iPhone/Touch behaviour as it is closer to the expected and known physical behaviour of moving photos.

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I've got a brand new MBP w/ Multitouch right here, and I can confirm this is in the pref pane.

Multitouch is neat (I just blew away our IT guy showing it off) but it's a little janky in it's implementation. There are really only a few programs you can use it it, and sometimes it has wierd assignments, ie pinching/stretching zooms in Preview but not in iPhoto.

Anyway, I'm more excited about the future of this tech than it's current implementation.

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So...TUAW...Why have you been so, well, un-informing lately? This has been something that most people knew since the DAY it was debuted at Macworld. Steve talked about it, and Apple employees were quick to point it out. You've been so slow to produce new news lately, and now you're recapping OLD news? Why?

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come on its The Unofficial Afterthefact Weblog

I kid, but really this is old old news.

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You can copy-paste this path into the Go To Folder dialog:

/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefpane/Contents/Resources

This is where the videos are located. Some non-multitouch macs have the videos installed none the less.

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How is it silly? It's a fantastic way to teach people that don't watch the Keynote nor the liveblogging for the Keynote nor read Apple websites everyday (i.e. most people).

Most of you probably don't remember, but the old old old Control Panel on System 1 through 6 (not sure about 7) had little pictures and little animations showing what a double click is. Macs used to come with a Mousing Basics program to teach you how to drag.

Some of these actions are a given now, but when they were introduced to the masses having those illustrations there was very valuable.

This videos are the same thing, only in 2008.

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Anyone know if you can use this 3 finger swipe to navigate your Spaces?

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Guys does anyone know if the MacBook pro recieved the new multitouch trackpad, like the Air?
I've seen those news here:
http://www.maconair.com/next-gen_macbook_pros_to_gain_airs_multi-touch_trackpad

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