![]() There's no mystery to these options, either. It's already packed with gestures you might not be using that can really speed up some tasks on your Mac. If you've got a Mac laptop, you should go to System Preferences and open the Trackpad pane. If a mouse or trackpad action is taking too long, or somehow hurts your hand - for example, selecting text with a trackpad - there's probably a better, faster, easier way to do it. In the meantime more info can be found at the Synaptics press release.Even better, with a utility like BetterTouchTool you can customize gestures on your trackpad further, as well as set up a mouse or any other input device you can connect to your Mac. ![]() They’ll be showing this off at the Microsoft Ecosystem Summit later this week. In fact, usually it’s ODMs and OS makers who fail to implement their solutions properly. There’s a danger of accidentally activating these, but that’s a matter of software optimization and Synaptics is no slouch. ![]() Flipping between apps looks as natural and useful as it feels on the tablets, and I like the idea of bringing up the charm bar like that. As it is, I think you can touch and then press down to click, as we’ve been doing for a while, but that’s not cohesive enough. After all, the feedback loop telling you where you’re putting your finger is a bit incomplete: it needs to let you know where your finger is hovering, since you can’t touch the items directly. I wrote a long time ago about the fundamental difference between direct and indirect manipulation of UI elements, and I can’t say that this video makes any difference to my opinion that we’ll likely always need both. Switching between desktops or applications with a swipe of a couple fingers becomes second nature, and it looks like that’s being nicely integrated in Synaptics’ concept.Įssentially what they’re doing is just mapping your input on the large touchscreen into the normal touch driver the difficulty is probably the precision and filtering, determining exactly where that finger is so you can provide touchscreen-level accuracy. ![]() ![]() One of the things I love on my MacBook is the multitasking multi-touch gestures. I use a PC desktop and a Mac laptop, and each one is jealous of the other for several reasons. I have to say that some of these things look extremely handy. ![]()
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