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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jollyllama said 6:05PM on 3-04-2008
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.
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GaryC said 6:31PM on 3-04-2008
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.
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Liam said 8:14PM on 3-04-2008
...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?
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hexoDAT64 said 8:20PM on 3-04-2008
It doesn't matter if everyone has the same version of OSX, if the hardware chip isn't there, multitouch isn't going to work
william.c.henderson said 9:17PM on 3-04-2008
Sadly, Hexo is right. I can't do anything to add gestures for non-supported machines - all I'm doing is letting users customize what happens when a gesture is performed on supported hardware.
DistortedLoop said 8:57AM on 3-05-2008
[quote]Oh, and what happened to having one version of Mac OS X for everybody?[/quote]
It is the same version of OS X for everybody. It's just not the same hardware.
Think it through: my MacBook Pro has half the processing power as my Mac Pro, so some apps run differently. My Mac Pro keyboard has a full sized keyboard with num pad and extra F-keys compared to the MBP, and some apps take advantage of that extra hardware. My Mac Pro has better graphics card than the laptop, and some apps take advantage of that hardware.
You can't seriously expect that future hardware updates won't be addressed by the OS to add features yours doesn't support because there are still old G3s or whatever out there that don't have the hardware to let the OS take advantage of. That's just silliness.
Tanner Osborn said 8:40PM on 3-04-2008
Holy crap... this is amazing!
Works like a charm, and will only get better I'm sure.
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Charlie said 4:15AM on 3-29-2008
I'm trying to make a gesture do apple tab, to switch apps...I can't seem to do that though.
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