Comments on: Mac tip: Why “natural” scrolling feels backwards—and how to turn it off

By: Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan Thomas — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:27:00 +0000

great post! Thanks a lot!

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Mac OS X Survival Guide | here's the thing — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:22:05 +0000

[...] Why “natural” scrolling in Mac OS X Lion feels backwards—and how to turn it off [...]

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10 tips for taking control of your new Mac | here's the thing — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:20:08 +0000

[...] Why “natural” scrolling feels backwards—and how to turn it off Mac OS X Lion introduces “natural” scrolling—which means (somewhat counter intuitively) that you flick up on your mouse to scroll down, and down to scroll up. But if you’d rather forget “natural” and go back to normal, there’s an easy way to do it. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:31:00 +0000

I think its fair enough if you have a magic touchpad or whatever that up is down, but its just a tad annoying that it is set as the default.
On my version of Lion the screen shot looks a little different and the wording is less patronising, it says “turn on finger scrolling” or something along those lines…

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By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Who knew, right?

By: Brian Patton

Brian Patton — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:31:00 +0000

that really is annoying :). I did not know that in nature up was down and down was up…

By: Mac OS X Lion tip: How to get your missing scroll bars back : here’s the thing

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:13:44 +0000

[...] Notice anything funny about scrolling in “Lion”? (That is, besides the fact that scrolling on your mouse or keypad has been essentially reversed by default.) [...]