TechPlay Experience

Last night we held a murder mystery evening and a major part of evening involved our guests watching a DVD played on the F8.

Even though the room was small the sound from the DVD was not loud enough to be heard by everyone in the room, even though all volume levels were turned up to full level, and in the end I had to set up external speakers.

I know that the F8 is aimed at business users, but sound may be needed to give presentations, and I would prefer if the speakers were a little louder.

Panasonic have included a method of quick scrolling on the F8 which in theory is great but there is a slight problem with the way it is implemented.

To scroll up and down through Web pages or documents your can move your finger in a circular fashion clockwise or anti-clockwise on the mouse pad and the page will move up and down accordingly.

However it needs quite a lot of force to keep your finger constantly on the pad to activate it, it works ok for me but my wife struggles due to arthritis to be able to push down long enough for it to work.

I’m now looking for away to make it more sensitive.

In this post I talked about the problems I (and my wife) were having with the Quick Scroll functionality on the Panasonic Toughbook F8.

Fortunatly linus-lim was able to post a solution in a comment on the post.

Here’s the solution:

1. Click on the Touch Pad Utility on the task bar to launch the utility.
2. On the General settings Page set the scroll speed to Fast.
3. On the Scroll Area Setting’s page set the scroll activiation area to large, like shown below.
4. Click on Ok

This has sorted our problem and has made the quick scroll function much easier to use for my wife.