Filed under: iLife, Terminal Tips
iLife Tip: Enable Multi-Touch maps in iPhoto '09
After using iPhoto '09 for a couple days, I have come to love the new features, in particular the Places feature. However, one thing that annoyed me is that you cannot use the Multi-Touch feature on newer MacBooks to manipulate the maps (zooming in/out, etc.). However, thanks to a Tweet-tip from Steven Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith), there is a way to enable this functionality. To add Multi-Touch maps to places in iPhoto '09, just open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) and type (or copy/paste) the following statement and press enter:
defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YESWhen you restart iPhoto, you will notice that you are now able to scroll in/out of the Places maps with ease. If it turns out that you don't want the scrolling feature, just retype the statement, replacing "YES" with "NO."
Thanks for the tip, Steven!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
shivi2006 said 6:10PM on 1-28-2009
Thanks!
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Dorin said 6:40PM on 1-28-2009
I've just added it to Secrets http://secrets.blacktree.com/. Please check it out if it works properly. Here is the URL: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=7561 You can edit it for 3 day's.
Thanks
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Joey Bobby said 6:55PM on 1-28-2009
This doesn't work; running 10.5.6, iPhoto 09. Terminal logged in without root access.
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loup407 said 7:04PM on 1-28-2009
Same here....:-(
Steve said 7:29PM on 1-28-2009
The command works fine, except the description given by TUAW sucks - it doesn't enable actual multitouch (aka pinch zooming) but it enables the two-finger scrolling to zoom (and scroll wheels too).
Tommy said 7:04PM on 1-28-2009
This also works if you just want to enable scroll-wheel zooming, if you haven't got fancy multi touch macbooks.
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Stephen.4 said 9:03PM on 1-28-2009
How do people find out these hidden settings in Apple products?
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Tommy said 8:35AM on 1-29-2009
By looking in the preference files, like the one in this post: com.apple.iphoto. There is an option called MapScrollWheel, which is set to NO by default. The terminal command is just an easy and safe way to change it to yes without accidently altering other settings.
A lot of application have preferences that are not visible in the GUI.
Paul Mison said 7:54AM on 1-30-2009
You can also run strings on the binary app. There's an awful lot to read through, but you can find things if you're persistent. It's how I found the way to suppress the genre browser in iTunes 8, anyway.
James said 3:54PM on 1-29-2009
thats two finger scrolling. its been on apple laptops since the iBook G4. multitouch means pinch/zoom gestures and this isnt that
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