Synaptics Scrybe turns your touchpad into an app launcher
Synaptics is launching a new application called Scrybe that works with Synaptics touchpads that support multi-touch gestures. Basically, these touchpads are already able to perform gestures such as pinching to zoom or using multiple fingers to scroll. But Scrybe adds a series of user-customizable gestures that you can use to perform actions such as:
Launch an application
Visit a web page
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For laptop users that use their ubiquitous touchpads, Synaptics has a page with four different toys to play with. Dubbed the Synaptic Utilities, the four applications consist of the following:
DrumPad
Sketch
Theremin
TouchPadSays
Personally, I'm partial to the theremin toy, but the others are worth playing with. Synaptic touchpads don't support multi-tap functionality, so the drumpad is ...





