iUsed2Scroll
iScroll2 - the wonderful missing tool on my PowerBook. For months I’ve taken this great little thing for granted! It was probably one of the first little applications I installed when I bought my Mac. It’s incredibly useful as it allows me to - would you believe it - scroll. Well, not anymore.
After being bored and putting off some revision, I decided to browse on macupdate.com. I do this now and again, just to see if there’s anything interesting for me to play with; putting off more revision and other work. Anyway, I looked and noticed iScroll2 had been updated. Great stuff! Maybe it had finally added right-click hotspots for me? No.. nothing interesting in the update, really. Oh well, may as well have the latest and greatest anyway. Latest - yes. Greatest - far from it. That was an incredibly bad move.
The scrolling is just awful, it varies in speeds for every application and it’s so juddery and completely unsmooth it’s horrible to watch let alone use. Easy fix, right? Just uninstall it and re-install the old version. Not the case for me! I hunted the version I wanted, 0.25e, and installed it. And installed it. And installed it… restart after restart! It would just crash, the daemon wouldn’t run or nothing would happen whatsoever.
Now, if I were a little smarter I’d have tried this a while ago - I have just installed 0.26 (aka ‘judder’), deleted it’s preferences and installed 0.25e over the top. Tada! It worked. Back to how things were a couple of hours ago. Great, what a pointless waste of time.
