Comments on: Smart Scroll X adds ‘kinetic’ scrolling to Mac OS X

By: Reggie

Reggie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:29:39 +0000

I agree about Grab & Drag. Same thing, and free for Firefox. Just configure it to the left mouse button and kinetic scroll all you want: http://grabanddrag.mozdev.org/index.html

By: TranceMist

TranceMist — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:19:12 +0000

Pointing your video camera at the screen is rather hokey, you should try Snapz Pro X.
(got mine with MacHeist)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:53:06 +0000

Version 2.5.0.3 of Grab&Drag has plenty of options, similar to Smart Scoll X!

By: Lorie Ghamy

Lorie Ghamy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:09:31 +0000

I am a Grab&Drag user on Firefox for a long time ! No options but really good for free.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:31:59 +0000

Just wanted to note that there is a FireFox extension called "Grab&Drag" that does the same thing (on Macs and PCs) for free. It however obviously only works in FireFox of course. Might be interesting for some people nevertheless. I use it on both my Vista Desktop and my Q1 Ultra and like it very much.

Also, newer Logitech Mice (the MX Revolution as well as the VX Nano) have that feature built into the hardware (flywheel) and the driver. Works quite well, even if it's not as versatile as other solutions.

By: another sadly deluded individual

another sadly deluded individual — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:16:31 +0000

As usual "Er, no." The features may look similar in a bullet point list, but actually using the thing is worlds apart. MouseIMP Pro is nice but this is something else!

By: bmhome1

bmhome1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:30:12 +0000

As usual OSX $20 add-on that has been Windows freeware since Win98 (MouseIMP Pro).

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:32:13 +0000

Al, I’m naturally photogenic. That’s all I can say.

Seriously, there are so many factors involved, but I think the key is to encode your video in H.264/MPEG-4. Bear in mind that we also have a YouTube Directors account, so our videos can be up to 100 MB in size. That gives us room to boost the bit-rate or play with settings as needed. For this particular video, I actually encoded it for VGA, or 640×320. Most of our prior vids are 480×320. That may be helping this particular one as well. The key is to have high-quality video as your source. Hope that helps a little!

By: Al

Al — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:09:11 +0000

Kevin- Your Youtube vids are extremely clear. I do videos with a little handheld vid machine called the Flip Video. When I show the vids on a connected computer or TV, the pix are crystal clear, but when I put them on Youtube they come out MUCH less clear than yours. Is there a commercial or higher def setting available on Youtube, or perhaps you just feed in much better video so when Youtube compresses it, it looks that much better. Any thoughts will be appreciated.