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Smooth Gestures in Google Chrome lets you execute commands in the web browser relying only on the mouse, without having to appeal to the keyboard to open a new tab, close the currently open one, move back and forth in a website, etc. All this is achieved by simply drawing with the mouse a gesture, which is associated... |
19 January 2011
03:31 GMT |
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All laptop touchpads have limited functionality as they are designed as a light replacement for the actual mouse. Two Finger Scroll comes to extend the usability of Synaptics touchpads by enabling two-finger and three-finger gestures.
Some TouchPad drivers sport only one-finger scroll capability, which allows the us... |
18 October 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Gerry Carr posted last evening, October 14th, a very cool demonstration of the interaction between the new Unity shell and the uTouch gesture and multi-touch stack, on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Netbook Edition operating system.Announced by Canonical on October 10th, the new Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) ... |
15 October 2010
10:00 GMT |
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Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth proudly announced a few minutes ago that the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system will have support for gestures, with multi-touch. This is possible via Ubuntu's uTouch 1.0 gesture and multi-touch stack. Now that the new Ubuntu installer has been released, it ... |
16 August 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Children have notoriously curious and absorbing minds, and they can easily remember words and things that their parents forget after a while. A new investigation demonstrates that parents should exercise extra caution when, for example, disciplining their children, especially when it comes to using their hands to mak... |
12 May 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Improving communication between human beings is one of the main goals in science today, mostly because such an ability would allow us to avoid countless conflicts. Research in this area has been ongoing for many years, and considerable progress has been made until now. Just recently, a group of specialists managed to... |
6 January 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Ever since sign language was invented, it has brought up a single enduring question: how is it that those speaking and gesturing are able to do both with the same speed? It naturally takes more time to form a sign than to speak a word, yet interpreters seem to be able to finish both their sentence and their sign repr... |
14 December 2009
09:17 GMT |
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In the old days, many thousands of years ago, the dingos were semi-domesticated human companions. Descended directly from wolves, these dogs lived around villages in Asia, being fed by the humans and sometimes assisting their masters in the hunting game. But, somewhere along the line, more than 4,000 years ago, they ... |
14 December 2009
01:56 GMT |
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Words and gesture may seem to be two distinct sets of communication tools, and someone would expect that they are processed in different parts of the brain. However, this does not seem to be the case, as indicated by a new scientific study funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders... |
10 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying for a long time to get away from the limitations that average keyboards and mouse devices impose on computer users, and have thus created wireless gesture controllers and touch-screens for that. But now, experts at Microsoft, the University of Washington in Seattle (UWS), and the Universit... |
28 October 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Most statistics sharing information about web browser popularity trends are generally limited to displaying the usage drift of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. However, their engines have been implemented in a ton of other browsers that sometimes bring more functionality and comfor... |
9 July 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Apple TV 2.4 and Remote 1.3 are two updates that now provide a new way for users to control the wireless media hub through multi-touch input on the iPhone’s touch-sceen. Apple details the updates on its Support section (for Apple TV 2.4) and on iTunes (for Remote 1.3). According to AppleInsider, users can now ... |
25 June 2009
02:51 GMT |
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As many of you might already know, Microsoft's Surface is one product that has not been developed for consumers, yet it seems that the Redmond company is determined to make some of the Surface applications available on a few other products it has in the works, including the upcoming Windows 7 for personal comput... |
14 May 2009
06:02 GMT |
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With the Windows 7 Natural User Interface, Microsoft is intent to use predictability and reliability in relation to gestures in order to build touch habits. The new Windows 7 interaction model was conceived built on the evolution of the platform's graphical user interface, and to tailor itself to all application... |
26 March 2009
13:15 GMT |
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With the latest Snow Leopard seeds out, the media has literally devoured every piece of information related to the new developer build (10A286). Headlines containing terms like “QuickTime X,” “Core Text,” “Cocoa Finder,” “Put Back,” etc. can be read on almost every Mac-... |
10 March 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Researchers have recently learned that employing gestures when explaining mathematical concepts can be very helpful at times, especially for little kids. And they are useful not only because they are fun and so on, but because they offer a totally new way of understanding the concepts involved. The new technique make... |
25 February 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Synaptics, a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, has announced today the availability of two new advanced gestures. The ChiralRotate and Two-Finger Flick come to join the company's current portfolio of gesture recognition capabilities for Synaptics touchpads used in notebooks and... |
30 September 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Not only does pearPad turn your iPhone / iPod Touch into a remote trackpad for your Mac, but it can also transform your Apple portable device into a remote keyboard. According to the developers, this feature will come in handy when you connect your Mac to an HDTV to show off some pictures, browse the web, or give a p... |
25 August 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Gesture-based input... Isn't it something? The endless tapping of a trackpad to manipulate a file is over thanks to Apple, and not just for MacBook Air users, as the company has recently revealed. The multinational corporation has plans to introduce the technology to most of its notebooks during the course of th... |
23 January 2008
06:58 GMT |
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