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I know that recently the new Macbooks and MBP had a special feature enabled that alowed them to have one finger on the track pad and click causing a right click to happen.

is there any tool that would allow me to do the same thing on my Powerbook G4 12inch?

i thought i saw something similar the other day but cant find it now.
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I think iscroll or sidetrack will let you get this or similar functionality.
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Originally Posted by Aptmunich
I think iscroll or sidetrack will let you get this or similar functionality.
They will not do it since the PowerBook already has the two-finger scroll natively. AFAIK there is no way to do this on a PowerBook. There have already been a few threads about this that go more in depth, do a search and it would probably help you more.


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Note: Models that have two-finger scrolling already built-in are not supported! These use a completely different, USB-based trackpad, the driver or which is not available as open source.
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this works
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20854

im using it on my 12" 1.0 ghz powerbook
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that iscroll app does a pretty good job, the only thing i dont like is that it disables the two finger scroll, which is something i love.
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Strange I have the 12 in model before the scrolling trackpad (1.33ghz) and I use iScroll and I can both "right click" and scroll.
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well this app allows you to scroll with one finger at the edges but not the two finger scroll. I have a computer that allows the two finger scroll so I dont need to enable it - I just dont want to disable it.
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