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Most of the laptop users carry an additional mouse with them. By adding scroll wheel and double click (2x) button to laptops you not only save energy but also save your time with not being have to plug and unplug each time you use your laptop outside.
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But most laptops have a trackpad, surely?
If you drag the trackpad with two fingers
instead of one, it acts like a scroll wheel,
and if you tap it it acts like the mouse
button. I think the newer machines have a
variety of other "trackpad gestures" for
functions like rotate, zoom etc. |
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Just go to System Preferences > Keyboard
and Mouse > Trackpad, and check the box
that says "Ignore trackpad when mouse is
present" |
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Prior to the track pad many laptops did have them. |
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//System Preferences? Not in Control
Panel// |
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Hold on - are you using a computer or a
Windows PC? |
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I'm not a mac person but still I don't think that trackpads are same with a mouse's scroll wheel. It may enable you to control the scrollbar and scroll the window vertically but I'm talking about a different thing, experience design: scrolling the wheel with your index or middle finger and be able to click with the other. |
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//scrolling the wheel with your index or
middle finger and be able to click with the
other.// Yes, but you can do that with a
trackpad. Even some windows machines
seem to have this capability by now. |
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But you don't roll a wheel, right? |
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No, but the finger movement is the same. |
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[boys] you can also zoom within most
applications with option and a two-finger
scroll. Moreover, you can zoom the screen
itself (regardless of application) with ctrl
plus two-finger scroll (depends on how
you've set your preferences). |
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//Does your toybook offer that option?// |
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UBiwan, let me just check...multiple
screens - check. High speeds - check.
Dual processors - check.
Large graphics file manipulation - check. |
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Still, I expect all those cables and stuff
make yours look very impressive. |
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Oh, only a few then? That's nice. |
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Anyway, I've learned something useful
here again - I didn't realize PCs could do
graphics these days. It's amazing all the
extras you can bolt on to those little holes
in the back, isn't it? |
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Why would you want fire? Surely all those
valves generate enough heat to keep
anyone warm? |
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Cooking?! Well done! Much tastier that
way, isn't it? |
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No worries mate. It's vertebrate-specific. |
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Oh my god, I just wittnessed a "my laptop/Pc is better than yours" pissing contest. |
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And between two people that I had previously harboured not a small ammount of respect for, no less. |
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How very ninja-like, [Bubba]. |
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Engage the enemy, trigger a rapid-fire exchange of blows and feints, then dissapear, deleting all traces of your presence. |
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To an outside observer it looks as if the victim has been fighting with himself. |
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He doesn't look like he's bleeding much, however. |
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//between two people that I had
previously harboured not a small ammount
of respect for// [custard], old buddy, I
can't speak for UBiwan, but I advise most
strongly against having any respect for
[MaxwellBuchanan]. He is scurrilous and
dastardly. He is also prepared to have a
pissing contest with UB over anything.
(But, for the record, his laptop is way
better than UBiwan's PC). |
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That must be a piss de resistance if ever
there was one. |
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I do all my design work using Photoshop/Illustrator running under Linux on a cryogenically overclocked ZX Spectrum. I find I can concentrate better due to the amazingly quiet rubber keys. |
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I guess UBiwan does the same - hence the
need for the ice. |
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[wagster] ZX Spectrum! - pah! - I (and my my BBC Micro model 'B') laugh at your ZX Spectrum. |
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Three cheers for the BBC Micro Model B -
the fastest-booting computer known to
mankind. ClickbeepOK. |
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...and surely the most expandable machine
in the world, with built-in
analogue-digital converters so you could
plug in real analogue joysticks (for playing
"Elite"). |
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Oh my god - Elite!!!!! Elite!!!!!
Captain...Jameson, was it, by default? And
the evil Thargoids (??), and trading in
narcotics, and the perpetual lack of Alien
Goods at any spaceport anywhere....ah,
happy days. |
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...and everything rendered real-time in fantastic 3-D wireframe in about 32K of RAM (16K of which was taken up by the OS) on a 2MHz 6502 processor... |
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Just imagine if software had improved as
much as hardware over the last 20 years.
We'd all have 3D VR AI RPGs running on a
pocket calculator, instead of a talking
paperclip that requires a gig of processing. |
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