Scroll Reverser – get in practice for Lion

You may already know: in Lion, Apple has changed the directions in which we scroll. This all makes sense.

For decades we have been moving the scrollbar either up or down depending if we want to go up or down the page.

These last years though, the iPhone and most consequently the iPad have changed this user interaction: on these devices, we move the page up or down directly. There is no scrollbar. Just the content. The content is the thing we move.

With the advent of the Magic Mouse and the Magic Trackpad, and because Mac laptops have shipped with great trackpads for years now, the whole scroll-the-content scheme is making sense. It is the same thing as scrolling on a iPad.

It is a little weird though with a mouse. But I have been surprised by how easily my mind adapted to this change. I thought at first that it would be difficult, and that I would change back at one point. I have not. My brain does it alone, it is dead easy, effortless.

Scroll Reverser brings the reverse-scrolling to Snow Leopard. It is not a hack, nor an input manager: just a great little app that sits in the menubar.