Best Games Trackpad Cracked The Code

Best Games Trackpad Cracked The Code

I never believed in Santa Claus as a kid, and I still dont, though I think I might have cracked the code re: surprising myself as much as I possibly can by creatively arranging a UPS delivery.

Home Latest Video The Bests Highlight Reel Reviews Impressions Cosplay Why The Apple Trackpad Might Be The Best Video Game Controller Ever Made Tim Rogers 12312 2:30PM Filed to: tim rogers tim rogers Top Fb Apple ipad ios MacBook Air 724 2 I was designing a user interface for someone elses social game the other day, and I was completely oblivious that Id just recommended a feature that Just Would Not Do.

Advertisement Usually, Im pretty good at never recommending these featuresthats my Area Of Expertise: I recommend Features That Will Definitely Work and then suggest tweaks until they feel Good Enough For Me.

I am a fairly critical person (single at thirty-two, I have not had a girlfriend in literally 10 years, I eat the exact same meal six times a day, I often will listen to the same song on repeat for an entire day), and the giving-in of my critical faculties usually manifests itself in what I like to call supertolerance.

My joy is finding things I can tolerate, loving them when I do find things I can tolerate, and being constantly mindful of how best to avoid the things I cant.

Its just that everything else is so...

When I saw what Vizios Apple-aping personal computer lineup looks like, as a person who has read all of Steve Jobs biography and is thus familiar with the sort of suffering hed feel if he saw themId wish that on no oneI honestly felt sort of glad for a couple of seconds that he was dead.

Advertisement The New Vizio PCs and Notebooks Are Worthy of Apple I dont know how these will perform, but holy fck the new Vizio PCs and notebooks look amazingly Read more So: I am so good at tolerating Apple products that you could definitely say I prefer them, and I suppose you could say I like them.

GO Media may get a commission PS5 DualSense Controller Buy for 70 from Amazon So we were talking about a user interface.

We could make that a swipe with two fingers I started to say.

Luckily, this was an audio-only Skype call.

Skype is number one with a bullet on my list of worst interfaces in essential software.) Advertisement Oh.

Oh... well, I was thinking for a trackpad interface, yeah, we could build that in.

In a perfect world one guy chuckled (he owns two golf carts).

And certainly not everybody has a Mac with one of those new multi-touch trackpads.

Advertisement That doesnt mean we could just put that in there...

I got a seventeen-inch MacBook Pro in 2006, and literally right up until Apple announced the redesigned MacBook Pros and the MacBook Air, with their wide, luxurious glass trackpads, I had Mac users express amazement whenever Id use two fingers on my trackpad to scroll down a webpage or a document.

How did I not know this The unspoken answer was that Maybe you, unlike me, have some degree of tolerance for situations which require effort.

Advertisement Though the two-finger swipe was a trackpad gesture I used no less than a thousand billion times per day, it never came up in casual conversations with women at parties or hobos on the bus.

I especially never brought it up during interactive entertainment software user interface experience design documents, presentations, or meetings.

Even when the iPhone was finished being The Next Big Thing and was, in fact, The Current Big Thing, I never ventured a millimeter toward recommending software designers relegate an input to a motion involving two fingers of the same hand moving together in a straight line.

One finger on each hand, sureman,lets just leave it at two-finger involvement maximum, and two-hand involvement minimum (theyll need to be holding the phone (another rule is to never expect or ask the user to set the phone on a hard surface (what if theyre on a train or waiting at a bus stop))).

Friendly as I myself was with the two-finger swipe, I considered it Definitely Not A Thing.

And since I knew not everyone owned a MacBook Pro with a two-finger-enabled trackpad, the two-finger swipe certainly was Not A Thing Id accidentally recommend in a meeting.

Advertisement Then, two things happened: First, social game company executives must have all read the same article in The Secret Wall Street Journal, because they started all individually demanding that the number of icons displayed on screen in their interfaces be cut at least in half.

Advertisement Second, this year I received The Best Christmas Present Ever: it was a thirteen-inch MacBook Air.

Well ignore that it might have been a present from myself (so lonely), though I tell you what: it sure was Real Joy I felt when that box arrived at my parents house in Indiana the week before Christmas.

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