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Who needs a Mighty Mouse? Hold shift for horizontal scrolling

by David Chartier (Sep 22nd, 2006)

John Gruber linked the blog of Mike Rohde, a visual designer who discovered a slick scrolling trick built into Mac OS X: with a standard scrolling mouse, you can hold the shift key in most apps to scroll horizontally. Mike cites his day job apps like Photoshop and Illustrator, but this seems to work ...

Dear Apple: stop leaving your early adopters out in the cold

by David Chartier (May 17th, 2006)

Dan Lurie from The Apple Blog pointed me towards an early MacBook review at Macworld in which Jason Snell points out the new MacBook's ability to right-click when you have two fingers on the trackpad. It's a setting you can toggle in the MacBook's System Preferences, and it apparently also exists on ...

TUAW Tip: quickly adjust viewable hours in iCal

by David Chartier (Mar 9th, 2006)

Today's tip is a quick one about iCal, and it hails from the ever-useful archives of MacOSXHints. iCal's preferences allow you to choose how many hours you see in a day or week, but you can easily and quickly change this setting with a simple shortcut key. If you have a scrollwheel mouse or a two ...

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