One of Apple’s greatest feature introductions of the last few years is the use of two fingers to turn a PowerBook or MacBook trackpad into a two-button wonder. It’s an incredibly elegant solution that feels significantly better than awkward multi-button Windows trackpad laptops.
But it also only works on 2005 or later PowerBooks, which left, well, almost everyone out of the party. Until now. iScroll2 is an open-source project that promises to bring the two-finger scroll dance to older PowerBooks. It’s very early in development, so try it at your own risk. My 2003 12″ PowerBook is not supported, so I’m still out in the cold. Anyone got it working? Is it worth our time?
Via Digg.
8 responses to “iScroll2 Brings Two-Finger Scrolling to Older PowerBooks — But Not Mine.”
Pete,
It works just great on my 12″ G4 Powerbook. And just an aside it is not new. I had a version of it at least 2 years ago.
J
Joseph I. has it working on his computer, whatever model that is, which I’m sure you know.
I had it for about a year on my iBook (before I got a new MacBook) and it worked awesome in most apps. Certain apps, namely iTunes and all Adobe products, seemed to gag on the scrolling, either freezing momentarily or wildly scrolling without being touched. Outside those two apps, though, iScroll was awesome, and I’d recommend it to anyone.
brian ball
Just downloaded it. Works great on my G4 iBook (I bought it two weeks before the iBook with scroll was released in 2005). Thanks!