Tag: gestures
Tame OS X Lion Mission Control Workspaces & Windows With Lots of Petting
Mission Control gives users of Mac OS X Lion control over their workspaces, application windows and interface as they work in Apple’s new operating system. It combines the old tools Spaces, Dashboard and Expose into one useful feature. Launching the Mission To invoke the feature click the Dock icon or swipe up on a trackpad [...]
How to Enable Pinch to Zoom and Twist Gestures in Firefox 4
If you have a multi touch mousepad and have already downloaded Firefox 4, you can enable mulitouch gestures by changing a few settings. This will allow you to pinch to zoom in Firefox 4 and enable the use of a twist gesture to switch tabs. To enable pinch to zoom, you need to head over [...]
Apple Brings Android’s Gesture Unlock to iPhone, Will Consumers Get the Feature?
Apple may be bringing a new unlock screen that uses gestures, similar to the 9-dot pattern available for Android users to unlock their devices rather than using a short 4-digit PIN or a longer alphanumeric passcode. The gesture-based system allows users to ‘connect’ the dots in a pattern to unlock their devices based on the [...]
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Hidden Feature Roundup (And What’s Missing)
We already know what’s officially new in OS X 10.7 Lion, but now that the masses have had a weekend to dig into OS X Lion we know more about what’s coming to Macs this summer, and what’s missing from OS X Lion. The new features listed below are in addition to the announced changes [...]
OS X 10.7 Lion Brings Tablet Scrolling Gestures to Notebooks, Desktops
Apple has long implemented multi-touch scrolling on its notebooks via a two-finger scrolling gesture, however the new version of OS X 10.7 shows the direction that Apple may be headed in merging its full OS X operating system, found on notebooks and desktops, with the mobile iOS operating system, found on iPhones, iPod Touches, and [...]
Multitouch gestures coming in Ubuntu 10.10
Canonical, makers of the user-friendly Linux operating system Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 10.10 would support multitouch gestures by default. This is good news for fans of the Linux operating system who have had to work on their own solutions or third-party tools to bring the same multitouch mouse support that OSX and Windows users [...]
First Look at the Eclipse TouchMouse with Gestures
Today we had the chance to open up the new TouchMouse from Eclipse that includes gestures for websurfing as well as a scroll pad built into the middle mouse button. First off, this mouse looks sleek, and if you’ll allow me even sexy. The brushed aluminum top and the shiny caps on the battery portion [...]
Acer Aspire AS5738PG is Acer’s Multitouch Notebook
Acer just announced the Aspire AS5738PG, their first multi-touch notebook, that will ship with Windows 7 on October 22nd. Unlike many mobile PCs that sport a touchscreen the Aspire AS5738PG doesn’t fold flat like a tablet, opting for a conventional laptop configuration. This doesn’t take away from the ability to use the touchscreen; it just changes the focus of touch technology from that of a tablet.
