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Posted on September 1, 2005 at 11:48 am

Free Focus Scrool: a touchpad driver with added features

apple powerbook touchpad
An Open Source Project that aims at the PowerBooks touchpad and behaviour.

As the Sourceforge.net team says what is it:

A project to implement an open source driver for Apple powerbooks. The project was started as an alternative to SideTrack (which isn’t free) and an improvement upon iScroll2. It acheives its advanced features by running the trackpad in what is called `absolute’ mode. This means that the driver can tell exactly what part of the pad your finger is touching. The Apple driver (and iScroll2) both run the pad in `relative’ mode, and while that facilitates a simpler driver because the pad does most of the work, it is very limiting of what you can do.

Read carefully if your Powerbook is supported, though.

Check here for more details and download.

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