uControl: A Nifty Keyboard Hack for OS X
One of the weird things that I’ve run into in OS X is that sometimes I miss the scroll bar and end up clicking on the window behind the one I’m looking at. I’m not sure why it’s such a problem–perhaps because there’s not much of a border between the scroll bar and the edge of the window? In any case, uControl is a nifty open-source hack that, among other things, lets me use the trackpad on my iBook as a “virtual scroll wheel” by holding down the Function key. It also does a few other handy tricks like swapping function keys, so you can use Windows USB keyboards with less weirdness. Finally, it has some of the chattiest control panels that I’ve ever seen, including a bogus option labeled “Your Option Here” as a solicitation to submit code.