Snow leopard hidden feature — Chinese character trackpad input

Date: 2009.06.10 | Category: General | Tags:

I see that the next edition of the Mac OS, due out in September, will allow you to enter Chinese characters by drawing them on the trackpad with your finger. The iPhone already does this, and I’ve been very impressed with it. This is definitely good news.

Apple – Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Refining the user experience
(page down to “Innovative Chinese character input”)—I think that the blue image of the character on the trackpad is a conceptual rendering of the finger tracking, complete with the ability to anticipate the parts of the character the user hasn’t written yet.