What can multitouch on a Mac

Ask any MacBook owner, for he loves his laptop and he was maniacal gleam in his eyes begin to talk about Multitouch. Multitouch is able to stop the war, cure cancer, turn the head of any woman, and even replace the computer mouse. You can not love or hate Mutlitouch, as well as you can not love or hate group "Tender May" - it's just a reality, the law of nature. There is nothing more natural than Multitouch. Set of gestures which, together with the spread of makbukov the planet takes a pandemic scale and is becoming a new religion. So let's discuss Multitouch, as long as it is not prohibited.

Multitouch - is an advanced technology in cooperation with the touchpad laptops Apple. It is called advanced because conventional laptop touchpad is a kind of flawed a device which, in theory, should replace the mouse, but in reality can only replace it, and then - is not a fact:

Apple is known not only what makes sexiest computers on the planet, but also the fact that he can get the most out of every detail. The touchpad on the MacBook

really It replaces the mouse, and does it so well that some people buy a separate touchpad even for a desktop Mac. What is so good Multitouch?

Firstly, it can be configured, but not very flexible. If a gesture for some reason does not suit you, you can put in its place another.

Secondly, the gestures themselves are very comfortable. No need to draw a pentagram, no need to move your finger across the cycloid - Multitouch gestures are natural.

Third - Multitouch so well integrated into the system, it is impossible to say chtó primary - Multitouch or Exposé, Multitouch or Mission Control. Multitouch reveals the features of the system that were created for him. Absurd truth.

Now consider how to use all the features Multitouch experience and excitement from the use of MacBook. I will show this on the example of its setting, as it seems to me best.

Gestures with one finger

This is - the most simple, understandable and basic gestures. Touching the touchpad with one finger simulates the pressing of the left mouse button.

Gestures with two fingers

The largest group of gestures, which are responsible for most of your actions committed.

Touching two fingers simulates the right mouse button.

Two fingers is also performed conventional or smart zoom, rotate photos and "forward / backward". Normal scaling is the reduction / breeding two fingers to decrease / increase the scale, respectively. Well, both the iPhone.

Smart zoom - this is when you double-tap with two fingers on the text or picture, and he adjusted to the screen and becomes the optimum size.

With rotating pictures, everything is simple - open a photo, "grab" it with two fingers and rotate 90 degrees. With "forward / back" it is also clear - go on the internet back and forth nicely through pages with two fingers.

Swipe with two fingers from the right edge of the touchpad offers "Notification Center", which contains all of your reminders, calendar events, unread messages, and so on.

Finally, two fingers simulate mouse wheel, and this, in my opinion - the most brilliant thing in the Multitouch.

Of course, this method of scrolling is not a privilege Multitouch, and Apple has no patent on it. A pity, because scrolling with two fingers on other laptops makes me feel inferior: the screen uncontrollably twitches and changes scale, as soon as I touch it with two fingers, so I have left thumb to pinch the left touchpad button, and your right to move slider. Probably, for someone like me, and coined 'Universal Access', but on Windows it is not. That is why I praise Multitouch - on the MacBook such scrolling is implemented at the highest level, it works exactly as it should work.

Three-finger gestures

Touching three fingers when you hover on a word opens a pop-up window with the definition of the word or its translation (we even have special article about this magnificent gesture).

Also touching three fingers grip simulates a left mouse button, ie You can drag a file or a window by clicking on it with three fingers, or make a "frame" to select multiple objects.

Four-finger gestures

Chetyrohpaltsevymi gestures are real tehnobogi who know about Mission Control, Exposé, and using multiple desktops. Function reserved these gestures are not essential, however, greatly simplify the work and turn an ordinary MacBook in Noubuk who all want.

N.B. By default, the functions listed below (except for switching desktops), laid trehpaltsevy gestures. However, for my taste, it is better to put them on the four fingers, to reduce the likelihood of "slip" between gestures when using three fingers. Therefore, in the pictures below presents himself four fingers instead of three.

So, swipe left / right four fingers you switch between desktops, or applications in full screen mode.

A little trick: if you want to jump in a nearby "screen", and in one, do the following: start swiping and then, without lifting your finger from the touchpad, press it until it clicks, and then complete swipe. It should be a single gesture, fast and continuous, as otherwise it will be like my grandmother, who could not open the program because doing double click on the icon with an interval of a few seconds.

Swipe up from the bottom opens the «Mission Control» - a function that displays all open programs on your desktop.

Swipe down from the top launches «Exposé», which shows the open windows of each individual program.

It is an analogue of Mission Control, not only for the desktop and for a separate program.

Mixing four fingers replaces Launchpad - a place where all your applications.

Breeding also shows the desktop, removing all open programs off the screen. It is useful if you need to find any file lying on your desktop, and all cluttered programs.

Gestures five fingers

Pyatipaltsevyh gesture does not exist, so our little review on this finished. If someone in this article will seem a little, then here describes all these gestures epplovskoy language technical support.

Love Multitouch, Multitouch use, like the last time, because once it learns of Putin and Kabaeva cast for him - then again to get used to the mouse will not be easy.