Friday, April 18, 2008

Two Fingers, So Simple

As I come to the end of my 3rd week with AppleKory I continue to be amazed at how quickly and seamlessly my Little 'Puter That Could (CAN!) has worked its way into my digital heart.  Just this morning, in fact, I sat down at one of my PC laptops -- the one I have had churning the import process between Outlook .pst and Thunderbird (which once again didn't work, despite my simplifying it to the atomic level) -- and I mindlessly found myself trying to scroll down the page by placing two fingers on the Track Pad and sliding them towards me.  Uh...er...hmmm...didn't work BECAUSE IT IS A WINDOWS XP SYSTEM AND NOT APPLE LEOPARD.  

Something so intuitive, so practical, so elegant in its design, so...right.  So right that I now have global expectation of the feature, and will henceforth -- at least until Windows swipes the idea and integrates it (get on the stick, Redmond!) -- come up disappointed when using a PC laptop.

And I haven't even mentioned two-fingers-on-pad-click method for calling Context menus (right-click functionality in Windows world)!

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