Tag: MULTITOUCH

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 ...

There's been plenty of talk about Microsoft's slick, dual-screen Courier tablet (check out Engadget's coverage of the device). While we still don't know when it's going to appear on retail shelves, it's safe to say that the touch-plus-pen input system demonstrated in the video above would be awesome on the Courier. "Manual Deskterity" aims to meld pen and multi-touch input into a more "real" ...

The Opera Desktop team is reporting that Opera 10.50 for Mac has reached Beta, which means it's now stable enough to take for a spin as your daily browser. The changelog includes some major bonuses for Mac users, like Growl support, multitouch gestures, and a native Cocoa build. Although PowerPC support is gone, support for OS X 10.4 Tiger has come roaring back ... so, to both of the people ...

Good news, Nexus One users! Owners of Google's flagship Android phone are getting an over-the-air software update today (it may already be installed on your phone) that includes a new version of Google Maps, a fix for some of the phone's 3G problems, and ... multitouch support! Eat your heart out, iPhone. Now Android users can pinch and zoom with the best of them in the browser, gallery, and ...

The folks over at the Media Interaction Lab have figured taken on the complex task of designing a usable interface for one of those fancy multi-touch coffee tables; their response to the challenge was quite simple: if you're virtually controlling the devices in your home, shouldn't it seem a lot like when you control them in real-life? Makes sense to me. This simply brilliant yet brilliantly ...

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:891c68b3-a534-4159-b6b2-8e4ac56b6890&showPlaylist=true" target="_new" title="Windows 7 Touch Gestures">Video: Windows 7 Touch Gestures</a> One of the biggest changes in Windows 7 will be integrated support for touchscreen devices. And I'm not just talking about ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Evidence_found_that_the_iPhone_will_get_games'; There's talk all over the web of the U.K. getting iTunes Movies and T.V. shows "by the end of the month" - something us Brits are long overdue. Here at Download Squad we decided to see whether it truly is a matter of "flipping the switches" on this rumoured store, and dug into the iTunes localisation strings. Whilst ...