What is ClickPad II?

ClickPad II allows you to use the TrackPad on your brand-spankin’-new PowerBook 520, 540, or 5300 without subjecting your thumb to the ergonomic horrors of the TrackPad button.

• To click using ClickPad II, just tap the trackpad with a spare finger.
• To double-click, just tap the trackpad twice (with said finger).
• To hold the virtual ClickPad button down:
  • Position the TrackPad cursor
  • Tap once, then immediately plop your finger back down (down, quickly up, quickly back down and hold)
  • You don’t need to hold your finger down and wait; if you want to drag, just start moving your finger
  • To release the virtual button, lift your finger and wait. If it releases too slowly, you can release it more quickly by tapping the TrackPad again (as you did to start the drag).
  • Oops — you ran out of pad? Quickly lift your finger, move it back to the center of the TrackPad, lower your finger, and away you go. If you lift your finger off the TrackPad for too long, ClickPad II will release the button.

Using ClickPad II with your PowerBook allows a much softer touch than pressing the physical button on the TrackPad and will ensure many hours of increased productivity; eating sliced bread which using your PowerBook will just leave you with lots of itty bitty crumbs clogging up your keyboard (and if you spread honey on your sliced bread…<shudder> don’t get me started).

Wright, Dan. (March 1996). ClickPad II • READ ME. Electronic Document.

Download ClickPad II for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 8.1

Compatibility notes

• Macintosh PowerBook 500 or 5300 series

Macintosh PowerBook 2300 series is not supported (nor is this software needed)