Created: 07/02/2008
Video description: Brian Tong shows you how to make using your Mac's trackpad that much sweeter.
Hidden trackpad tips for your MacBook or MacBook Pro Video Transcript
I have a lot of friends who have switched over to the Mac platform and the first thing they ask me is if they can use their trackpad for clicking.
Well, you can do that and a whole lot more.
I?m Brian Tong for CNET.com and I have a few quick tips that?ll make using your Mac trackpad a whole lot sweeter.
So lets start off with what?s set by default.
This is one of my favorites, when you?re viewing a webpage or a document, you can scroll through the page with your fingers only. Just take your two fingers and slide them on the trackpad up and down OR left and right. Pretty sweet.
Another feature is if you hold the control button this time and slide up with your two fingers, it zooms in, if you slide back down, it zooms back out.
Now lets set your trackpad for clicking and other behaviors.
We?re going to jump into the System Preferences, and then select the Keyboard and Mouse icon, and then click on the Trackpad tab.
We?ll just turn on ALL the options available so you can see I checked the boxes for Clicking, Dragging, Drag-Lock and Tap Trackpad for secondary click.
So lets see them in action, I can NOW tap on my trackpad and it acts like clicking on a mouse. Double tap to open a folder? There u go.
If I want to drag something I?ll double tap on it but leave my finger pressed on the second click, now I can drag it around and let go when im done with it.
The drag-lock feature allows me to drag an item, but I can release my finger and the pointer still holds on. I can move it around and then tap the trackpad once to release the dragged item.
Everyone complains Macs don?t have a right click. We?ve turned on this feature in the preferences, so just tap with two fingers on the trackpad and you?ll get the secondary click. Boom!
So there you have it, a bunch of different ways to make your Mac trackpad that much sweeter. I'm Brian Tong for CNET.com your Tech-Knowlegde-G with the Quick Tip of the day.
Hidden trackpad tips for your MacBook or MacBook Pro

Brian Tong shows you how to make using your Mac's trackpad that much sweeter.