Gestures on iMac?

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Hey all, Excuse the ignorance, but I'm looking to get an iMac in the near future. I was under the impression that the track pad gave you the ability to perform gestures or navigate as if you were using an actual mouse -- not unlike the iPhone, for example. Last month however, I had someone come

Re: Gestures on iMac?

2012-10-09 Thread Alex Hall
Provided you get a Magic Trackpad, you can. For instance, you can rotor, flick, use the two-finger reading gestures, or move around to explore the screen. Not all gestures match up, and screen exploration is based on what vo is interacting with at the time, but my brief exploration of the

Re: Gestures on iMac?

2012-10-09 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Mark, I would suggest that the demonstrator doesn't know what they are doing, well at least properly. The Magic Track Pad, as Apple refer to it for the iMac… I use this on a day to day bases with my iMac, the commands mirror up to a large extent in line with the iOS commands. You can turn on

Re: Gestures on iMac?

2012-10-09 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'm guessing that she was simply not totally familiar with the use of VO and the Mac. As long as the MacBook was released within the last three years or so, then the gestures will work. She may have simply had the Trackpad commander turned off. It is turned on by holding down the VO