I just made it un-cool

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

So this is my first post on my brand new Apple MacBook Pro.

It's pretty nice. But I do have one question for the Mac people out there:

Where's the 2nd mouse button on the track pad?

heh
Tom

p.s. If I use a Mac, will it make me as pretty as the people who work in the store?

Comments

[sben.livejournal.com]

(I can't tell, with the "heh" in the signoff, but in case it's a real question:)

You can configure the trackpad to pick up a two-finger tap to be a "secondary mouse button click" (aka right-click).

You can also configure it to pick up a two-finger drag to work like a scroll wheel, which is way cooler than it sounds.

I can't promise that it'll make you that pretty, but it's a well-documented fact that it will make you prettier.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Well I've been using a mac since October, and I hate to say it but I don't think I'm a nexus of coolness and hipness yet.

[sarahluna.livejournal.com]

once you go Mac, you never go back.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

Assuming a serious question (the "heh" makes me wonder just a bit:
The canonical 2nd mouse button on all versions of OS X is to hold the Ctrl key when clicking.
Tiger (OS X 10.4) has an option to use two fingers on the trackpad as the same kind of "shift". You can find that on the Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Trackpad. Like sben noted, there are several other two-finger options there.

I'm afraid that using a Mac will not make you as pretty as the "geniuses".

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

You can become unix-cool if you start installing wacky open source shit on it... but that's not real cool.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Did you get it on lease? What'd you pay?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Real interfaces don't need multiple mouse buttons. That's just extra complication.

(Control-click if you must.)

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

Can't help you with the second button (I thought that was Mac anathema). But I've been waiting for the combination of OS X on 386 architecture for a long time ... got my MacBook this autumn, and one of the first things I did was to install Parallels, create two virtual machines, and install XP Pro on one and Ubuntu 6.06 on the other. So now I have all three operating systems that matter to me, running native on the same hardware, and almost all of my interoperabiity problems are solved. I can't see a good reason to go back to PC hardware, ever.

But even so, I'll never get a chance to dance in black silhouette against a primary color background, with white spaghetti dangling from my head.