Zooooooom

Are your running 10.4.8? Do you have a mouse with a scroll wheel? Try this… hold down the Control key and move your scroll wheel up and down. Cool, huh.

This trick also works on newer laptops that let you scroll by using 2 fingers on the trackpad.

You may be able to do this prior to 10.4.8, but I’m not sure how far back it goes back.

found via macdevcenter

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 Tips & Tricks

4 Comments to Zooooooom

  1. It’s been a feature of OS X’s Accessibility panel for quite some time, but the scrolling-style implementation is new in 10.4.8.

    2. Matt on October 3rd, 2006

  2. it`s very old function, but very usable and a lot of people don`t know about it.

    3. Korina on October 4th, 2006

  3. Actually, it was available in 10.4.7 just as it is in 10.4.8 without going into Accessibility panel - at least it was with the MacPro and a wireless mighty mouse. I just happen to notice it right away when I got the machine just a week before 10.4.8 came out. When everyone started noticing it after the update, I hadn’t yet updated to 10.4.8 and was using it.

    Quite a nice feature.

    4. Jim on October 4th, 2006

  4. It also works on Windows XP (I’m at work). I’m using a Mighty Mouse I brought from home, but I doubt that has anything to do with it. Pretty cool feature, as a 12″ Powerbook user, I wish I knew about this sooner, as my 19″ widescreen display is currently being shipped!

    5. acletras on October 4th, 2006

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