Tag Archive | "multi-touch"
Leopard to include support for multi-touch and location awareness tools
AppleInsider reports that Apple’s next OS X release, Snow Leopard, will include extended application support for multi-touch capabilities on its laptops, and location awareness tools for all Macs. While Apple’s desktops and laptops don’t contain GPS units, they will reportedly approximate a users physical location by triangulating nearby wi-fi signals, similar to how the iPhone […]
Continue reading...Is Apple working on a dedicated gaming device?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The iTunes App Store, fueled by the popularity of gaming applications, continues to grow at an astounding rate. Though Apple has never taken gaming too seriously, it did a complete 180 once it noticed how well they were selling on iTunes. In fact, the iPod Touch is now advertised more as a gaming device than […]
Continue reading...How to write about Apple when you actually know nothing – Bloomberg Style!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Take a look at this recent article from Bloomberg. It’s basically an amalgamation of random sound bites jumbled together in a failed attempt to cover the potential for a patent dispute between Apple and Palm. The title of the article is “Apple May Use ‘Nuclear Arsenal’ to Delay IPhone Rival”, and the authors show a […]
Continue reading...Apple awarded multi-touch patent
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Apple was recently awarded a patent on its application for a “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics.” The patent application, as a whole, stretches back to 2006 and covers a wide variety of multi-touch implementations on the iPhone. With the granting of this patent, which comes in […]
Continue reading...Is Apple going to sue Palm?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
At yesterdays earnings conference call, Tim Cook made some revealing statements that some are interpreting as thinly veiled threats against Palm. In response to a question about iPhone competitors, Cook noted that Apple welcomes competition in the smartphone market, but that it won’t sit idly by and have its intellectual property ripped off. We like […]
Continue reading...Patent application suggest new multi-touch gestures for the iPhone
Friday, December 26, 2008
MacRumors has the scoop on new patent filings by multi-touch guru Wayne Westerman that shed some light on what multi-touch gestures might soon be coming to your iPhone. The multi-touch gestures generally relate to making typing more efficient by giving often used characters and commands their own specific swipes. For example, a one finger swipe […]
Continue reading...Latest Firefox beta adds multi-touch support
Thursday, December 11, 2008
MacRumors is reporting that the latest build of Firefox 3.1 contains multi-touch support for the MacBook Air and the latest MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s. While Safari already supports some basic gestures, multi-touch has yet to be a part of any official Firefox release, though that will likely change when Firefox 3.1 is released. Supported gestures […]
Continue reading...HP’s TouchScreen Laptop doesn’t seem all that great
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Check out this video of HP’s new TouchSmart Laptop that allows the user to interact with the screen via touch gestures. While some have argued that HP has beaten Apple to the market with a touchscreen laptop, the video below clearly shows that the concept needs a lot more work. I can’t help but think […]
Continue reading...Adobe Photoshop CS4 has multi-touch features
Friday, September 26, 2008
Flying a bit under the radar is the fact that the newest version of Photoshop takes advantage of the multi-touch capabilities of the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air. Wired has the scoop.
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
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