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Smart Scroll

 Mac Gems 2006/12 4 mice

Buy now | Download (1.9 MB) v2.8.2 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.2 (PPC/Intel).
Free trial, $19 single user license.

5/6/08 Fixes and improvements for Mail, Safari, Camino.


Smart Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling:

Other features include Universal Scroll Keys that let you scroll from the keyboard, FileMaker Pro and AppleWorks enhancements, and more.


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Super Scroll

Amazingly smoother scrolling, with less work!

You can reverse scrolling on the Mac (scroll wheel, trackpad) to match your iPhone. Says John Brooks, who suggested this: "It seems weird for about 5 seconds, then it seems like it should have been that way"!

Super Scroll works with any regular scroll wheel mouse--any mouse that the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane can see. This is how a scroll wheel should work, try it and you won't want to go back!


Grab Scroll openHand

Grab Scroll lets you move any window's contents around with a simple mouse drag. It is similar to the hand tool feature common in graphics programs, except:

Grab Scroll works with any kind of mouse, pen & tablet, trackpad, trackball... It can share a button with a 2nd action: drag to Grab Scroll, or click to open links in a new tab or to perform any other action that does not involve dragging--not Dashboard or Exposé.


Universal Scroll Keys

Scroll Keys let you use the same set of keys for scrolling in all applications. This gives you consistent, dependable scrolling everywhere, without having to remember which app uses which keys and without always having to reach for the mouse.

Scroll Keys use a new kind of keyboard shortcut which doesn't involve hitting letter keys, thus avoiding conflicts with existing key combinations. You hold one of these keys and tap one of the others:

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Here's how to scroll down :

Hold down the control key key, then tap the command key key once.

To scroll another line, just tap ⌘ Command again (while still holding down ⌃ Control ). After scrolling once, you can keep both keys down to keep scrolling. If a window has two or more scrollable panes, it is the one under the mouse pointer that scrolls.

Because these keys are conveniently located in the corner of the keyboard (both corner on some keyboards), you can scroll without even having to look at the keys.

You can choose your own preferred combinations of these keys, and have them displayed in a corner of the screen as a reminder. Scroll Keys also feature an adjustable scrolling speed, with optional progressive acceleration, so that you can easily scroll multiple pages simply by holding down a key.


Other Features

Scroll Wheel Accelerator: extra-fast scrolling when you hold down a user-selectable key.

Smart Scroll brings scroll wheel support and live scrolling to FileMaker Pro 6 and 7 and AppleWorks 6 (the latest versions of these applications now include scroll wheel support).

Rosetta TuneUp (download 133 KB) is a utility for preventing Rosetta-related crashes on Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.4.8.


Registration

A single user license costs $19. Five and ten users licenses are also available, as well as a family license. Buy now


Acknowledgments

Smart Scroll uses Unsanity's Application Enhancer system, Copyright © 2002-2006, Unsanity LLC; Blackhole Media's URLTextView, Copyright © 2002 AAron Sittig ; and the IconFamily class by Troy Stephens, Thomas Schnitzer, David Remahl, Nathan Day and Ben Haller. Thanks to Eden Sherry for permission to name the Grab Scroll feature after the popular Scrollability feature.

Most Requested Fixes


Version History

Version 2.8.2 - May 6, 2008
previous versions