Comments on: 24 Multi-Touch Gestures for Mac OS X

By: Zoom Web Browsers in Mac OS X for Easier Reading

Zoom Web Browsers in Mac OS X for Easier Reading — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:39:16 +0000

[...] zooming, including Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. There are both keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures to zoom in and out of webpages, and fortunately they’re the same to use with every web [...]

By: Master the Multitouch Gestures for iPad

Master the Multitouch Gestures for iPad — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:53:48 +0000

[...] a Mac too? Don’t miss this list of multitouch gestures available in OS X for a variety of apps, they’ll work with any Mac that has a trackpad or Magic Mouse. [...]

By: Use Gestures To Go Back & Forward in Many OS X Apps

Use Gestures To Go Back & Forward in Many OS X Apps — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:11:32 +0000

[...] X has a myriad of multi-touch gestures that have been expanded upon from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion onward, and one of the better gestures is [...]

By: Mathias San Miguel

Mathias San Miguel — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:54:38 +0000

Are this gestures available in photoshop (say, scrolling, zooming?)

By: keithn

keithn — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:00:40 +0000

Frustratingly, by doing this you do get 3 finger hold and drag ability over a window bar, but you automatically lose the ability to go back/forwards in finder, which previously used the 3 finger swipe gesture.

Safari gets around this by providing the alternative back/forwards between pages by way of scrolling with 2 fingers left/right. But in Finder, scrolling is needed up/down and left/right on the current window, so scrolling left/right will not take you back/forwards.

Shame its either one or the other with the UI design as I like both the 3 finger drag of the windows, but also like the ability to move back and forwards in the finder window without moving my hand off the trackpad.

If anyone has any solutions/suggestions please let me know!

By: SamLR

SamLR — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:53:06 +0000

+1 on this! BTT allows you to customise all your finger gestures (and has even more than normal), for example I have it set up so that in chrome keeping one finger on the pad and tapping with another goes back whilst 3 fingers move between tabs.

BTT also has settings for alt+drag to move windows whilst the mouse is anywhere over them and windows 7 style maximise to half and quarter window

By: Disable Pinch to Zoom Gesture in Safari & Mac OS X

Disable Pinch to Zoom Gesture in Safari & Mac OS X — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:12:32 +0000

[...] pinch to zoom gesture is one of those features borrowed from iOS that has since come to the Mac OS X platform. It’s [...]

By: frankie

frankie — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:33:57 +0000

3-finger swipe up/down: change conversations in Skype.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:48:45 +0000

In System Preferences, click on Trackpad. Once there, you’ll see looping videos of how each gesture works.

By: Haruhiko

Haruhiko — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:28:12 +0000

Re: grant
You can change the 2 finger page back/forward back to a three finger gesture then you will able to going back/forward pages in Finder and the App store again. Cheers.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:08:22 +0000

Cheers. Do you know if they are bringing back gestures to go back and forward in between finder windows (and the App store)? I can’t believe they go rid of that. WHY???

By: Yap Chin Hoong

Yap Chin Hoong — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:21:10 +0000

By default is 3. When you enabled drag with 3 fingers. It changed to 4 then.

By: mike v

mike v — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:14:37 +0000

these do vary depending on preference settings which you should mention. for example, “Activate Mission Control – Four Finger Swipe up” the first choice is three fingers. same for “Mission Control All Windows for Current Application – Four Finger swipe down”

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:26:32 +0000

Google “BetterTouchTool.” Then you can really go to town. And it’s free.

By: Swaggy

Swaggy — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:13:49 +0000

mac ox? is apple producing beasts of burden now?