It looks like the new PowerBooks’ trackpads’ added features may come at the expense of speed.
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Not sure if you knew about Sidetrack, but it’s a set of replacement drivers for $15 that let you use and customize scrolling on your current trackpad. I’ve been using it for about 6 months and it’s made me stop ignoring my trackpad. Well worth it.
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/
Yes. I’ve tried it out in the past, however, I couldn’t get the hang of its scroll functions. Nice little program, but I didn’t want to learn to use it effectively badly enough to cough up $15 for it.
The scrolling functionality is really easy to use and is the same as on most windows laptops. You just set it to a small part on the right edge of the trackpad and use your finger to scroll up and down. I actually prefer the tactile aspect of it to the scroll wheel on mice or trackballs. I set my parents up with it on their ibook and they love it.
By the way, thanks for the link to the browser exploit. Scary stuff there. I do web work and IT and I’ve been evangelizing firefox to windows clients for the last 6 months. Now IE is the only browser not affected by this! Uuugh!! Any word on a Safari fix?
IE is vulnerable too under the right circumstances (see here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/07/1323206&from=rss).