Tag: TOUCHPAD

With the webOS 3.0 SDK available for almost two months, HP has now given developers access to a beta download of webOS 3.0 -- which powers the upcoming TouchPad and will likely ride along on HP desktops and laptops in the form of an emulator. Right now, the webOS 3.0 beta is only available to Early Access developers. The crew at PreCentral states that HP appears to have eased up on access ...

Yesterday saw a flurry of webOS unveilings from HP, from new hardware to a previously unseen version of webOS for tablets. They also finally dispelled any doubt about whether webOS would find its way onto HP PCs -- and it will, later this year. But the reveals weren't all about hardware and software -- content played an important role as well. Amazon's Kindle app was demoed on the TouchPad, as ...

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 ...

One thing about laptops that drives a lot of my customers nuts is the touchpad. If I had a nickel for every time someone brought a laptop in complaining that their mouse pointer suddenly jumped somewhere else on the screen and messed up their typing, I'd have at least $10.15. Hey, I'm in a small town - that would nearly count as an epidemic. TouchFreeze is a tiny, open source program ...

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 ...