Just wondering if anybody else has found any quirky, undocumented ways of using the magic trackpad... here's a couple of gestures I've discovered accidentally, but now use regularly:
"inertia" drag:
You need to have 3-finger dragging turned on. Make sure your mouse cursor is pointing at something draggable (e.g. window title bar) ... then touch the trackpad with only two fingers (e.g. middle finger and ring finger). Without lifting - or moving - the two fingers, flick the pad with a third finger (I use my index finger)... the object will drag, but with an inertia effect depending on how fast you flicked. You can flick a few times (without lifting the first two fingers) to keep the drag going... this is actually a pretty nifty feature if you need to drag something a long distance (e.g. over to a secondary display)... a really fast flick can propel an object a *long* way....
Three finger scroll technique:
Put two fingers on the pad, and drag them a tiny amount to initiate a scroll gesture... then hold them still... then put a third finger on the pad without lifting/moving the first two (just like you did in the previous gesture)... you can now control the scroll using only the third finger ... I find this a more comfortable way to scroll long documents, since the first two fingers support the arch of your hand).
"inertia" drag:
You need to have 3-finger dragging turned on. Make sure your mouse cursor is pointing at something draggable (e.g. window title bar) ... then touch the trackpad with only two fingers (e.g. middle finger and ring finger). Without lifting - or moving - the two fingers, flick the pad with a third finger (I use my index finger)... the object will drag, but with an inertia effect depending on how fast you flicked. You can flick a few times (without lifting the first two fingers) to keep the drag going... this is actually a pretty nifty feature if you need to drag something a long distance (e.g. over to a secondary display)... a really fast flick can propel an object a *long* way....
Three finger scroll technique:
Put two fingers on the pad, and drag them a tiny amount to initiate a scroll gesture... then hold them still... then put a third finger on the pad without lifting/moving the first two (just like you did in the previous gesture)... you can now control the scroll using only the third finger ... I find this a more comfortable way to scroll long documents, since the first two fingers support the arch of your hand).