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Penryn owners: how often do you use multi-touch?
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to be honest..i was pretty excited about the fact that multitouch came to the mbp.. but since i got it.. i havent used it. I can't seem to make the pinching for zooming gesture work for me in iphoto, it zooms in safari though. And I havent developed a habit for 3 fingers scrolling yet.
I like the Multitouch abilities very much, though I also count two-finger scrolling and right-click. I often use the method of moving a window by a finger-tap, too and use the three-finger navigation in Safari, which is more comfortable IMHO than using the trackpad to go the buttons.
I don't use zoom and pinch, though.
I don't use zoom and pinch, though.
I've had my new MBP just under a week and haven't used it at all yet, I was also quite excited.
But since it doesnt work in Aperture or Firefox, that only leaves Finder I could use it in...
I guess I will play around with it a bit in the longer term, but so far, nope.
But since it doesnt work in Aperture or Firefox, that only leaves Finder I could use it in...
I guess I will play around with it a bit in the longer term, but so far, nope.
All the time. Once you get used to the three-finger swipe forward and back in Safari it's great, as is the zoom of pinch/stretch (I use firefox on pc but am fine with safari so far) I don't go out of my way to find programs that use or need it, but it'll be nice as more programs do support it.
I swipe a bit in finder, wish it worked with cover flow. Unless I havn't figured it out yet. Seems to be most functional when viewng pdf files ive noticed so far. Not sure why I want to rotate a pdf but I can 
edit: well I just noticed you can select your icons on desktop and pinch zoom, that explains why they keep changing size lol
edit: well I just noticed you can select your icons on desktop and pinch zoom, that explains why they keep changing size lol
I actually use it a lot everyday. The main gesture I use is the 3 finger swipe to go back and forward in Safari. I use the zoom and rotate gestures every once in a while.
I've been getting used to the new gestures and finding them very useful once they become habit.
Right-click on two finger + mouse button is great, zoom and rotate are good once you figure out a finger combination that works for you. I use my index and middle fingers. Rotate just requires a quick flick of the fingers rather than a fully described circle motion, get that down and it becomes a lot more useful.
Still working with three finger scrolling as I've tended to have cmd+direction keys set up before and that combo is very easy to use on the mbp.
I don't have single tap to click turned on as I found it was picking up too many false negatives.
Right-click on two finger + mouse button is great, zoom and rotate are good once you figure out a finger combination that works for you. I use my index and middle fingers. Rotate just requires a quick flick of the fingers rather than a fully described circle motion, get that down and it becomes a lot more useful.
Still working with three finger scrolling as I've tended to have cmd+direction keys set up before and that combo is very easy to use on the mbp.
I don't have single tap to click turned on as I found it was picking up too many false negatives.
I guess two-finger scrolling might work for that, as it's not limited to scrolling up and down.
the only two things i've found intuitive are the picture rotating in iPhoto and the 3 finger swiping in safari - all are very useful!
