Enjoy gestures across applications with MultiClutch

The multi-touch feature that's been added to the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air is pretty cool, but rather limited (for now, at least). Wouldn't it be cool to have gestures across applications, like Safari and iChat?

Check out MultiClutch. It's a preference pane that lets you assign your own keyboard shortcuts to a given gesture across applications. Switch Safari tabs with a flick. Zoom in on email with a pinch. That kind of thing.

MultiClutch lets you bind gestures to a Cocoa app, including swipe, zoom and rotate. If you want to test this out, understand that it's beta. With that in mind, have fun!

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Charlie

I'm trying to make a gesture do apple tab, to switch apps...I can't seem to do that though.

March 29 2008 at 4:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Liam

...any chance on a workaround that lets us use such functions on a normal Macbook?

Oh, and what happened to having one version of Mac OS X for everybody?

March 04 2008 at 8:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Tanner Osborn

Holy crap... this is amazing!

Works like a charm, and will only get better I'm sure.

March 04 2008 at 7:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

GaryC

Just got a new MBP. Multi touch DOES work with Safari 3, as it does with Mail.app Pinch zoom in/out, 3-finger page back/forward, etc.

I still prefer Opera, though, and hope they get these incorporated pretty soon.

March 04 2008 at 6:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jollyllama

Very cool, works well and even uses some gestures (swipe up/down) I haven't seen used before. I've got the swipes moving between tabs in NetNewsWire, the pinch closing windows... Cool! I imagine that Apple will put something very similar in 10.5.x once multi-touch is more mainstream and less of a novelty.

March 04 2008 at 6:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply