Multitasking touch gestures headed to the iPhone (video)
Adding more validity to the rumors that future iPads and iPhones will lose their home buttons, Apple is apparently testing multitouch gestures for multitasking on the iPhone, according to the mobile site Boy Genius Report.
As depicted in BGR’s screenshots, the gestures will let iPhone owners swipe up with four or five fingers to reveal running applications, swipe left or right to jump between apps, and pinch to get to the home screen. As you … Continue Reading
Microsoft Kinect hack gets serious with multitouch interface (video)
The comparisons between Microsoft’s Kinect body-gesture motion-control system and the cool gesture-controlled computer in the 2002 sci fi movie Minority Report are getting old, but I can’t help but think of that film when looking at developer Florian Echtler’s multitouch interface hack (see video below) for Kinect.
We reported earlier in the week that Kinect was hacked only a few days after its November 4 release, but at the time all hackers had to show … Continue Reading
Firefox browser update brings multitouch to Windows 7
Mozilla released the third beta of its Firefox 4 Web browser today, introducing multitouch input support for Windows 7, in addition to a number of speed improvements. The beta can be downloaded and tested in more than 30 languages and on all platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X.
The multitouch support included in the beta release will allow Windows 7 users to interact with the Web using gestures similar to the ones iPhone and … Continue Reading
Synaptics lets Linux gadgets give the iPad 10 fingers
Mozilla released the third beta of its Firefox 4 Web browser today, introducing multitouch input support for Windows 7, in addition to a number of speed improvements. The beta can be downloaded and tested in more than 30 languages and on all platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X.
The multitouch support included in the beta release will allow Windows 7 users to interact with the Web using gestures similar to the ones iPhone and … Continue Reading
Multitouch comes to Google's Nexus One phone
Mozilla released the third beta of its Firefox 4 Web browser today, introducing multitouch input support for Windows 7, in addition to a number of speed improvements. The beta can be downloaded and tested in more than 30 languages and on all platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X.
The multitouch support included in the beta release will allow Windows 7 users to interact with the Web using gestures similar to the ones iPhone and … Continue Reading
