The app that we will need for this is BetterTouchTool. So here is how you can give yourself a little bit more power and control over your trackpad. Keyboard gives us a lot more freedom to explore but trackpad is more easier to start with. Well you can, and all you need for it are a few apps and creativity.Īs I mentioned earlier, there are only two ways you can interact with the operating system that you use. What if you could hack on the operating system on a more global level? That is any customization changes you do on your personal computer persist with you across any application you visit. You can take and transfer these ideas to other apps but that’s about it. Whatever hacking and customization you do in these two apps, doesn’t translate at all to when you use other applications on the operating system. Vim and Emacs are the two perfect apps that allow you to take this idea of customization and personalization to the extreme. It has been my personal goal to remove as much friction as I can between myself and the software of the computing devices that I use. Like a bicycle exists to speed up the body, computer exists to accelerate and empower your mind. A personal computer is not just an object that you buy and use. I believe in the idea of a personal computer. In fact the trackpad of the Macbook is one of the best things that are built onto the laptop. That is not to say that using the trackpad is awful and should be avoided at all costs. Typing keystrokes is much faster than moving your hand to the trackpad to try to navigate through your operating system with it. My favorite of these two interfaces is the keyboard as I am a very keyboard centric person.

After all, they are your only interfaces that you can use to communicate with the laptop. I love my keyboard and the trackpad that came with my MacBook.

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