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How do you change your trackpad settings? If your Mac's trackpad doesn't play nice with your fingers, you can change it!
How to add clicking features on the trackpad on a Mac
You can turn on double-clicking, data look up, and tap-to-click features to the trackpad.
- Click the Apple icon () in the upper-left corner of your screen.
Select System Preferences.. from the dropdown menu.
- Click on Trackpad in the System Preferences window.
Click on Point & Click.
- Tick the box Look up and data detectors to enable the ability to search words and phrases in Safari, iTunes, and other searchable services on your Mac
Tick the box Secondary click to enable one-click double-clicking.
You can select how you trigger Secondary click to work from the dropdown menu to click in the bottom right or bottom left corner or clicking with two fingers.
Tick the box Tap to click to enable the ability to tap lightly on the trackpad to trigger a click.
Drag the slider bar to the left or right to slow down or speed up how fast the pointer moves across the screen when you move your finger on the trackpad.
How to change scrolling and zooming on the trackpad on a Mac
You can use the trackpad to zoom in and out in windows and rotate items when supported.
- Click the Apple icon () in the upper-left corner of your screen.
Select System Preferences.. from the dropdown menu.
- Click on Trackpad in the System Preferences window.
Click on Scroll & Zoom.
- Tick the box Scroll direction: Natural to have the trackpad scroll follow your finger movement.
Tick the box Zoom in or out to pinch to zoom.
- Tick the box Smart Zoom to enable the ability to double-tap with two fingers to zoom.
Tick the box Rotate to enable the ability to rotate documents, like pictures and PDFs, with two fingers.
How to enable gestures on the trackpad on a Mac
You can make the trackpad work like a touch screen by enabling additional swiping and pinching gestures.
- Click the Apple icon () in the upper-left corner of your screen.
Select System Preferences.. from the dropdown menu.
- Click on Trackpad in the System Preferences window.
Click on More Gestures.
Tick the box Swipe between pages to enable the ability to switch windows in Safari, iTunes, and other supported apps by swiping from left to right on the trackpad.
You can select which gesture works to switch between windows from the dropdown menu to scroll with two fingers, swipe with three fingers, or swipe with two or three fingers.
Tick the box Swipe between full-screen to enable the ability to swipe with three or four fingers to switch to different full-screen windows.
- Tick the box Notification Center to swipe left from the right edge with two fingers.
Tick the box Mission Control to enable gestures to access Mission Control.
You can select which gesture to trigger access to Mission control from the dropdown menu to swipe up with three or four fingers.
Tick the box App Expose to enable the gesture to highlight a single app and its recent files on your desktop.
You can select which gesture to enable App Expose from the dropdown menu to swipe down with three or four fingers.
Tick the box Launchpad to pinch with your thumb and three fingers to access launchpad.
Tick the box Show Desktop to spread your thumb and three fingers to switch back from Launchpad to the desktop.
How to change the double-click and scrolling speed on the trackpad on a Mac
You can adjust how fast the trackpad reacts to your clicks and scrolls.
- Click the Apple icon () in the upper-left corner of your screen.
Select System Preferences.. from the dropdown menu.
- Click on Accessibility.
Scroll down and select Mouse & Trackpad from the list of options.
- Drag the Double-click speed slider bar to the left or right to slow down or speed up how long you can click a second time to trigger double-clicking.
Click Trackpad Options and adjust the slider bar to speed up or slow down how fast the trackpad scrolls down a web page or document.
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I love to scroll. Yes I’m one of those people that load a webpage or document and just scroll around like a caffeinated hamster on wheels, aimlessly. Now, I can finally scroll with finesse on my Windows desktop with the Logitech Wireless Touchpad T650.
My hunt for a Windows touchpad device began with the disappointing Dell Wireless Touchpad. Thankfully everything Dell did wrong with their attempt, Logitech did right. It takes the right combination of hardware and software to execute on something as simple as smooth scrolling.
Hardware
Taking the device out of the box, it’s easy to appreciate the large flush surface. Even though you’d be using four-fingers at most (more practically two finger gestures day-to-day), a full hand can easily fit on the 5-inches of silky-smooth glass top.
The subtle matte texture allows fingers to comfortably glide in all directions – not unlike the Apple Trackpads with slightly less friction. The touchpad also provides very fine tactile clicking, through the rubber feets oddly enough.
To maintain a light (210g) and thin (12mm) profile, the battery is not removable but Logitech claims it holds enough juice for one month’s charge. Conveniently it uses a standard micro-USB port to charge and has a on-off switch on the side. An LED indicator in the corner flashes green or red to indicate charge, as does the desktop software.
Typical of wireless peripherals these days, the touchpad utilizes wireless 2.4GHz. Although I usually don’t have much luck with this band, Logitech’s tiny “Unifying” USB receiver seems to do a solid job without interference from a reasonable distance.
Software
As the giant label on the back of the device insists, downloading the Logitech driver software for this device is essential to access the full functionality of the touchpad.
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Supporting both Windows 7, Windows 8 and even Windows RT, Logitech SetPoint is a reasonably small download. Once installed, the many gestures start working and the control panels allows you to enable/disable and customize many of the actions/gestures of the touchpad.
A few options that immediately caught my eye include the default right-click behaviour idiotically set to “click at the bottom right” instead of the more sane “two finger click”. Another, reversing the scroll to scroll up when I slide down (something I’m accustom to with OS X).
Unfortunately one important option that’s missing is the tapping sensitivity as I would personally like to increase by just a fraction to make it easier to click by tapping.
The driver’s gesture recognition is fast and problem free. Moving, single taps, double taps, multi-touch scrolling, swipes and pinching are all correctly and consistently identified. My only issue has been the zooming gesture which is quite sensitive, but since it’s not that widely used in Windows I’ve disabled it altogether.
Probably the most important function of the driver is smooth scrolling (or high-precision mouse scrolling as Microsoft calls it). Once installed, the touchpad can smoothly scroll in Windows applications that supports it along with inertia. Sadly, the applications that support this is few. Internet Explorer does, but for everyone else, Logitech thought of that too.
Bundled with the driver are Logitech plugins for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox which adds smooth scrolling compatibility for the touchpad. Like the scrolling you’d expect on a modern smartphone web browser, web pages suddenly become buttery smooth.
On Windows 8, the drivers also enable the touchpad access to the Windows 8 edge gestures from the sides like Charms, app bar and app switching. Personally I don’t use enough of Metro applications to get much value out of this.
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At USD$79.99 (AUD$99.95), it’s a pretty penny for just butter-smooth scrolling. Of course it does much more than that, but it’s still undeniably hard to beat the good ol’ mouse on the Windows desktop.
Otherwise if you’re looking for an Apple Magic Trackpad designed for Windows, then the Logitech Touchpad T650 seems to be the best hardware on the market with the best Windows 7/8 driver support. Don’t just take my word for it, the positive reviews on Amazon agree.
But enough of writing. I’m off to scroll the world wide web. Wheeeeeeee.