Until an advanced version of Siri comes to the Mac and we can mumble commands at our computers, we’re stuck with traditional input devices: keyboards, mice and trackpads.
In their default states, each device has the potential to frustrate. We often find mouse-tracking absurdly slow, forcing multiple swipes to get the cursor across the screen; we regularly prod a trackpad and accidentally activate an on-screen click; and the lack of keyboard shortcuts for useful actions in certain apps drives us nuts.
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This tutorial therefore looks at how settings for these things (and more) can be adjusted by way of the Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad panes in System Preferences (accessed from your Applications folder in Finder).
Our tutorial assumes you’re using standard Apple kit, such as the Magic Mouse and a Magic Trackpad or MacBook trackpad. If you’re using third-party input devices or older Apple products, the options you see might be different from those shown. Additionally, if you use an input device such as a Wacom Bamboo tablet, that will probably have its own separate configuration options, available from the Other section of System Preferences.
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