Multi-touch Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple granted patent for touch-sensitive bezel

by Mel Martin (Feb 3rd, 2010)

The Patently Apple website is reporting that Apple has been granted patents dealing with tablets and advanced touch technology. The first patent concerns an 'intelligent bezel' where a user could control volume, brightness, zoom or even controls for games by sliding a finger along the edge of the ...

Hands-on with the Magic Mouse

by Joachim Bean (Nov 3rd, 2009)

Well, I got my Magic Mouse a few days ago, and I've been using it for my everyday tasks for a few days (and I'm still using it), and here are my impressions. Packaging: This packaging is clear, showing the actual Magic Mouse, just like the packaging that Apple has been using recently for ...

Here it comes to save the day: New Mighty Mouse

by Dave Caolo (Oct 2nd, 2009)

"Twenty five years after introducing the world to mouse-based computing, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is now hoping to deliver significant advances to the input device by applying the company's extensive research and development in multitouch technologies," AppleInsider reports. In other words, "new ...

Multi-touch coming to older MacBooks? Not so fast.

by Chris Rawson (Jun 15th, 2009)

Mac Life and Gizmodo are both reporting that Snow Leopard will add multi-touch gestures to all older MacBooks and MacBook Pros. This has gotten a lot of people's hopes up that three- and four-finger multi-touch gestures will be back-ported to all Apple portables that previously did not have them. ...

Snow Leopard to include location and multi-touch SDK tools?

by Robert Palmer (Feb 5th, 2009)

AppleInsider claims that Snow Leopard will include developer hooks that will determine a Mac's geographical location and provide additional multi-touch support for Mac laptops with glass trackpads. While Macs don't typically come with GPS built-in, the location determination feature will work ...

BusinessWeek: HP "out-touches" Apple

by Dave Caolo (Nov 19th, 2008)

Talk about being slightly touched. Arik Hesseldahl's BusinessWeek article, published today, says "...as of Nov. 19, Hewlett-Packard has beaten Apple to the punch, announcing the first multi-touch-enabled notebook PC, the tx2. I can't help but wonder whether Apple just lost an important race." ...

Lux: multi-touch for OS X

by Mat Lu (May 17th, 2008)

Lux is an experimental framework that brings full screen multi-touch to OS X. As you can see in the video above it allows a quasi-iPhone like experience in OS X. The project is scheduled to go live in June. Over at Gizmodo they have an interview with the developer, Christian Moore, who talks about ...

Beta Beat: Delish

by Cory Bohon (May 7th, 2008)

If you're a Del.icio.us fanactic like I am, then you have hundreds, going on thousands of bookmarks. How do you view your 1,000+ bookmarks? If you use a web browser, then you're living in the dark ages. I am going to show you a better way to view your bookmarks that may leave you speechless. Delish ...

Enjoy gestures across applications with MultiClutch

by Dave Caolo (Mar 4th, 2008)

The multi-touch feature that's been added to the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air is pretty cool, but rather limited (for now, at least). Wouldn't it be cool to have gestures across applications, like Safari and iChat? Check out MultiClutch. It's a preference pane that lets you assign your own ...

A little kinetic scrolling with Smart Scroll X

by Mike Schramm (Feb 29th, 2008)

Apple has already stolen the multitouch interface from the iPhone for the MacBook Air and the new MacBooks, but they haven't yet borrowed that other scrolling "feature," known here as "kinetic scrolling." If you'd like to steal it for your own Mac, however, jkOnTheRun has just the thing: a tip about ...

iPhone 101: Zooming in and out of maps

by Erica Sadun (Aug 9th, 2007)

In the iPhone Google Maps application, it's pretty obvious how to zoom into maps. You double tap the screen. The map readjusts, zooming further in. So how do you zoom out? Sure you can pinch your way back but there's a far easier way. Use a single multi-touch tap instead. That is, tap with two ...