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Slowly Disengage The Clutch

You may have heard of Multi-Clutch, the brilliant hack to let you inject multi-touch gesture support (by hooking them up to keyboard shortcuts) at runtime into applications that weren’t coded to support them. It’s marvelous, and I love it.

Here’s my bindings for NetNewsWire:

Swipe left/right
Tab up/down
Pinch in (fingers at diagonally opposite corners, move to meet in middle)
Mark all as unread (analogy: smooshing those unreads)
Pinch out
Go to News Items (analogy: from within the *middle* (of all those tabs), approach the *frame*)
Rotate right
Refresh All (analogy: the refresh arrow!)
Rotate left
Stop loading (analogy: opposite of refresh)

Comments [+]

  1. The two-finger scrolling on my MacBook is indispensable. I don’t have reason to consider upgrading my computer anytime soon, but this Mac multi-touch stuff is tantalizing. The more I can do just by waving my hands around, the better.

    Which explains why I often wave at automatic doors. The sensation of causation of is strangely compelling.

    By Jim · 2008.03.15 00:55

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