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This is the second day I've used the Magic TrackPad to replace my mouse. I wasn't exactly happy yesterday. I understood why I wasn't happy and it was legitimate I suppose due to the fact that it was the first day. I'm a little happier with it today.
I may get happier still. I've had some things happen by accident that have very good implications for what can happen in the future. The starting point for my new appreciation started from when I opened the Preference file and researched the "Tap to click" feature. Then, it wasn't so hard to get a sure response when I tried to left click.
Once I checked the "Tap to click" option my ability to double-click and right click improved. Highlighting a word or phrase is still a problem sometime, but all in all the touch technology is starting to look real handy as a way to manipulate info on my monitor.
It really irritates me to have to learn a whole new way of doing things. Especially in this case when I have a working mouse a few inches away that I know exactly what to do to get what I want from it. I complained yesterday about how difficult it is to get the Magic TrackPad to click. The rubber pads on the bottom of it are also switches. The entire pad has to be pushed down forcefully to get these switches to work.
That's not what's going on with the "Tap to click" feature in the Preferences file. I may be mistaken, but I think that activates the touch units on the top of the pad. When I get it right all it takes is a light touch to get the device to click or double-click. Other times it's not easy. It seems obvious that eventually I'll learn what it takes to get it right without hesitation sooner or later, and the whole input dealio will become thoughtless.
Another aspect of this new gadget is that it doesn't matter which fingers one uses to get it to work. They don't even have to be fingers from the same hand. Just now I was having a little problem getting it to right-click in order to use the spell-checker. The way I solved it was to reach over and put my index finger on my left hand on the pad and touch it with the index finger of my right hand and it worked real well.
It's a flat plane. There's nothing to reach around or grip. That's real different. I've used both hands in turn with mechanical or laser mouses, but that was tricky to do sometime. They gotta be moved to work. Not the TrackPad. I will probably end up placing it more toward the middle above my keyboard so I can reach it easily with both hands.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
