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Beef Up Your MultiTouch with 'MultiClutch'

Can’t get enough of the multitouch features on your new MacBook Air or Pro? Mac developer Will Henderson has come up with a nifty way to get even more mileage out of those pinches, swipes and rotations. His new MultiClutch app actually lets you assign custom keyboard shortcuts in a given app to the standard […]

Macbook_air_multitouchCan't get enough of the multitouch features on your new MacBook Air or Pro? Mac developer Will Henderson has come up with a nifty way to get even more mileage out of those pinches, swipes and rotations. His new MultiClutch app actually lets you assign custom keyboard shortcuts in a given app to the standard gestures now available on the Air and Pro.

Says Henderson:

Want swipes to change tabs in Safari? Done. The same in iChat? Done. Want zoom-in to open emails in Mail, zoom-out to close windows in every app, and a swipe down to bring up Quicksilver? Done done done.

Henderson is currently distributing a beta version of MultiClutch for free on his web site and there's also a PayPal link for those who want to throw a little scrilla his way in appreciation.

He says he's considering combining other keys with gestures to expand multitouch functionality even further (e.g. ctrl + pinch = open a webpage while pinch alone =
default zoom out) in future versions of the application.

MultiClutch: assign keyboard shortcuts to gestures [MacNN]