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Customizable 4-Finger Mutli-Touch Gestures Planned by Apple
MyAppleGuide discovered an unused preference pane in the version of Mac OS X Leopard that ships with Apple's new unibody MacBook Pros. The preference pane shows that Apple was planning on offering customers a way to assign different function...
Customizable 4 Finger Gestures for Snow Leopard?
myappleguide.com — When Steve Jobs introduced the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros at Apple's  media event last October... , he announced the new glass trackpad with two four finger gestures for OS X Leopard. Well it seems Apple has even more four finger ... (more) Customizable 4 Finger Gestures for Snow Leopard?
MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks
MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks
appleinsider.com — A few owners of Apple's new unibody notebooks are experiencing backwards compatibility issues with the units' redesigned... audio jacks, which offer a snug connection for the company's latest headphones with integrated microphones at the expense of a few ... (more) MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks
Hands On: Old MacBook Pro vs New MacBook
Hands On: Old MacBook Pro vs New MacBook
blog.wired.com — I bought a new MacBook. I couldn’t help it. Three days spent in and out of the... press room at the MWC in Barcelona meant three days of seeing the tiny 13” package over and over (these unibody MacBooks seem to be popular). Worse, I was seeing ... (more) Hands On: Old MacBook Pro vs New MacBook
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Customizable Multi-touch Gestures File Found in OS X Leopard
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — A recent discovery in OS X Leopard’s system files sheds some light on Apple’s intentions on letting users customize their own four-finger swipe gestures. While their has been talks on software updates allowing users of older machines to get enabled gestures, customizing your own has never before been an option. MyAppleGuide originally found the file (though we first saw it over at MacRumors), which we opened up in Interface Builder to snap the screenshot below. While none of ...

MacBooks could see custom four-finger gestures
Macworld — ... MacBook, I constantly wanted to swipe up for expose, and down for showing the desktop, and while I’ve largely retrained myself at this point, I still almost never use the side-to-side application switching gesture, preferring instead to go for the keyboard equivalent of command-tab. So, it looks like the configurable gestures may be coming in a future update, although perhaps Apple decided not to go in this direction just to keep it all standardized. My hope is for the former. [via MacRumors ]

MacBooks could see custom four-finger gestures
MacUser — ... MacBook, I constantly wanted to swipe up for expose, and down for showing the desktop, and while I’ve largely retrained myself at this point, I still almost never use the side-to-side application switching gesture, preferring instead to go for the keyboard equivalent of command-tab. So, it looks like the configurable gestures may be coming in a future update, although perhaps Apple decided not to go in this direction just to keep it all standardized. My hope is for the former. [via MacRumors ]

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