SideTrack: a driver for PowerBook and iBook trackpads
Alex Harper’s SideTrack adds multi-button and scrolling functionality to the trackpad by way of a new item in System Preferences. It’s like getting a whole new piece of hardware. You can use the edges of the trackpad to scroll (it can keep scrolling when your finger gets to the edge of the pad), and it turns the corners of the pad into buttons to which you can assign a good range of behaviours. You can use modifier keys and pretty much go crazy with how you want to set it up.
At my desk, I use a beloved Kensington Turbo Mouse (11 buttons + chording) and it’s good to be able to load a fair subset of its abilities right into the trackpad for when I’m standing up working with the PowerBook perched on top of the refrigerator. SideTrack has “Apple’s going to steal this” written all over it (ha ha, just joking) and is a steal at $15.
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Posted to Computers • 2004.11.27 (Sat) • 11:17
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