Now I am back to normal, scrolling away with my trackpad. I also have the top corners set to forward/back tabs and the bottom corners set to back/forward pages. Sidetrack has a lot of neat features, many of which I don’t even use. The real question is why Apple doesn’t ship this technology in the OS? I suppose it all goes back to the 1-button mouse argument. I sincerely wish that Jobs wakes up one day with an email from an engineer at Apple telling him about some great innovation in mouse technology that will allow them to get past it. What kinds of things could they do? Here are some possiblities:
1) Mouse with trackpad-like programmable surface. To the average user it is a one-button mouse. To the power user it is an entirely flexible interaction surface.
2) Mouse and trackpad gestures. This would be similar to what Sidetrack does, but with any arbitrary gesture possible.
3) A powerbook with no trackpad, but the entire non-keyboard surface is a big tablet that you can modify as you see fit.
4) iSight-based eye-tracking system. No mouse, just follows your gaze on the screen. I’m not sure if this would tire your eyes or not, nor do I know how accurate it can be. I do know that humans can follow a persons gaze with unbelievable accuracy.
Perhaps they will just stick with the one-button mouse… I mean, its lasted this long.
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