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)
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