Ex-Genius

End Of Day Thought: Scrolling

I use two Macs on a day-to-day basis. A iMac and MacBook (Aluminum Unibody). My iMac has multi-touch via the Magic Mouse. The MacBook has multi-touch via the glass trackpad. The Magic Mouse supports momentum scrolling. It is actually a very nice touch. If you used/have an iPhone or iPod touch, it means that the Magic Mouse scrolls on a Mac the same way that iPhone OS handles scrolling. You flick your finger, and the page scrolls and then slows down to a stop.

Multi-touch enabled MacBook and MacBook Pros need to support this feature. It would be very nice to flick two fingers up and down on the trackpad and scroll through a website with some momentum.

It’s a software related “issue”. Perhaps I can write some simple application that would enable this feature on Multi-touch Apple notebooks. If I do get it working, I will post it for all to enjoy.