Tag: MULTI-TOUCH

Ubuntu 10.10 was recently released, and one of the many feature additions Canonical is excited about is the introduction of the uTouch gesture framework, which brings multi-touch support to the popular Linux distro. Using uTouch, users can perform a range of actions ranging from displaying the task switcher you see above to minimizing, maximizing, and restoring windows. Curious about how ...

While it'll be another year or two before most people can get their hands on Windows 7, Microsoft began making an early build of its next generation operating system available to a select group of developers this week. And that means a ton of information is popping up on the old telegraph internet alerting us to new and (hopefully) improved features tucked away in Windows 7. Here's a little ...

Last night Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer talked a little bit about Windows 7. But just a little bit. Speaking at the All Things D conference, Ballmer, Gates, and Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green demonstrated some of the features that will be included, including support for Surface-like multi-touch technology. Some other programs that utilize multi-touch include: A new photo management ...

Nathan Weinberg at InsideMicrosoft has either got a great big scoop on some of the features Microsoft plans to put into Windows Mobile 7, or way too much time on his hands. For the duration of this post, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he got his hands on a leaked Microsoft document from sometime this summer explaining the new features to be packed into Windows Mobile 7. The ...

Want a multi-touch computing platform but don't have $10,000 lying around? No problem. The Multi-Pointer X Server has just added multi-touch support to the X server windowing system used in Linux. MPX also supports multiple input devices. So you can use a mouse and a touchscreen simultaneously. Or 8 mice and a touchscreen. It's up to you. Unlike Microsoft's Surface platform, MPX does not ...