Leopard X 10.5 OS Magic Trackpad System Preferences PDF Manual

This additional (Magic Trackpad) preference has now been added to System Preference as found on all notebook installations with OS X with the 10.5.6 update. I have kept the original text and images here as some may not update immediately. At the top of the Keyboard panel are two sliding scales: Key Repeat Rate, which adjusts the length of time between a character being repeated as a key is held down; and Delay Until Repeat, which adjusts the time before the first repeat begins. The delay may be adjusted between short and long, or off: the character is not repeated when the key is pressed. On the notebook computers, which have a limited-width keyboard, below the sliders is a check-box to turn on or off the use of function keys as standard function keys.

When active the Fn key must be used to use the key for its additional function (e.g. Brightness or Volume). This then allows the F-key to have an additional use, which can be allocated in the Keyboard Shortcuts section. A check box below this turns on and off the keyboard illumination in poor light, with a slider bar below that for selecting a time that this lighting feature operates when the computer is not being used. A Modifier button at the bottom left allows a user to re-allocate the uses of certain keys: Caps Lock, Control, Option and Command. For example, the Caps lock key can be changed to operate as the Option key. Like Keyboard, the Magic Trackpad preference has two slider bars that adjust speed of Tracking (how fast the cursor moves across the screen) and the double click. Below are two check boxes that control the limited gestures available (also see Trackpad for later changes): use 2 fingers to scroll and allow horizontal scrolling. A slider to the right allows adjustment of scrolling speeds. Another check box below turns on the feature that zooms the screen when holding a key: the key selector panel is adjacent. Options refer to the way the screen image and cursor behave in relation to the zooming action.

A check box for using the trackpad to click on turns this feature on or off. When active, two more check boxes are available: dragging and drag lock. These control the way a panel may be moved across the screen with a one-finger action. There are finally two trackpad options: to ignore accidental trackpad input and to ignore trackpad when a mouse is used. The Mouse section has a different appearance depending on the type of mouse used: a one button mouse; a two-button mouse and the Apple, “Mighty Mouse”. Tracking speed and double click speed are the same as in the trackpad section (above), as is scrolling speed. With a two button mouse it is also able to re-allocate left and right mouse buttons. With the Mighty Mouse, each input of the mouse can be re- allocated. This panel has a repeat of the Trackpad section feature that allows a user to zoom with the scroll wheel when a key is pressed. The Bluetooth section is for identifying Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The simple pane has panels for naming each device and below each is a battery level indicator.

There are two check boxes at the bottom of the pane: the first turns on the menu-bar icon for Bluetooth technology which works in tandem with the same check box in the Bluetooth preferences pane; and the other check box allows a Bluetooth device to wake the computer. The final section is for Keyboard shortcuts. A list of the shortcuts is displayed in a central panel. To the left of each is a check box to turn the shortcut on or off. The description is in the centre and the shortcut keys are shown to the right. Double clicking on the shortcut allows it different keys to be selected. At the bottom left are + and – icons for adding or deleting shortcuts; while to the right a button restores default settings when pressed. Finally, controls at the bottom refer to the focus of the keyboard: by pressing the Tab key a different part of a panel or window may be used. Mobile Me is a service that evolved from iTools and .Mac. It is intended to synchronise data between several computers and devices: Macs, iPhones, the iPod touch and PCs. The annual Mobile Me subscription fee is $99. The preference panel is split into four parts: Account, Sync, iDisk and Back to My Mac. The first section is used for logging in to the Mobile Me service and there is a single button for this. When pressed, a dialogue box appears in which account name and password are entered.

When a user is logged in, the main panel then displays details of the account. Sync, the second pane, is used to select the specific services that are to be synchronised between the various computers and devices. Examples of these are contact addresses (AdressBook) Calendars (iCal), as well as bookmarks and keychains. In all 10 services are listed and each is activated using a check box. Above the list the method of synchronisation may be selected: manual or automatic. Choosing the latter also requires a time period to be entered (every hour, day or week) or Manually. To the right of the period selector, is a button marked Sync Now, which may be useful for a first time connection, or to At the bottom of the Sync panel is a check box to allow the addition of a menu bar icon which itself may be used to activate a sync or to open the preferences panel. An Advanced button to the right, reveals a panel that displays computers that are registered for the user. A button allows a highlighted entry to be unregistered. Below the panel are two further buttons. The first is to reset the data being synced and the user is prompted to select a computer to act as master (master/slave) by using a direction button. This is activated by a Replace button. Cancel is also available.

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August 6, 2010 | Posted in Computers, Software

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