iScroll 2 and the iBook are friends!

If you’re an iBook or PowerBook user whose Mac was not so lucky to receive the 2-finger scrolling and 2-finger right-click options, there is a solution for you! The great people over at sourceforge.net have had a tool to enable this feature. It’s called iScroll (and it works perfectly with Leopard, on my iBook G4 1.2GHZ). There is a supported hardware page and the only thing you need to do to have some two-finger scrolling goodness on your “unscrollable” Mac is to run an install wizard and reboot. Then enable two-finger scrolling in the “Mouse & Keyboard” pane of System Preferences and you’re ready to go!

Make sure you grab the latest version (0.32 as of this writing on 11/18/2007) from the downloads page.I’ve become absolutely dependent on this little utility and can’t imagine using the aging iBook without it. On a side note and possibly a side rant (how can we be here at TechNest without one?) – shouldn’t it have been up to Apple to provide us with a software update to enable these features? Sure, they have a business to run and profits to make and the two-finger scrolling is a feature of the new notebooks, but we – the hardcore Apple/Mac fanboys/fangirls stuck with Macs when Apple wasn’t the coolest company on the block! They should have at least given us this feature to show their appreciation and respect! Here’s another one hoping that Apple isn’t becoming a Microsoft with a pretty face! (Microsoft, by the way, has gotten better about their practices. Apple: are you listening?).