gestures

Hi, I have Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate installed in it. It was working fine and once I wanted to install synaptics touchpad driver for multi-gesture feature. I tried to install twice or thrice but the installation was getting failed. Thinking that if any other touchpad...

I was at a Best Buy today checking out touchscreens and Windows 8 since my daughter was looking at them. At another store the touchscreen did not seem to have the same functionality as a mouse, but I may have not been doing it correctly. A sales person came up and we starting discussing the...

Whenever I talk publicly about Windows 8; Windows 8 enthusiasts are quick to point out all of the terrific things in Windows 8. Let's agree on that point. When I talk one on one with my customers however, other than the minority that are just apathetic about the interface and accept the high...

Taipei, February 4th – Linpus, a leader in the field of open source software in the consumer space, announced the release of a new application for Windows 8. Linpus, one of the most successful open source vendors in the notebook and consumer device market, has recently added Android and Windows...

I just installed my new windows 8 from the windows 7. However, finger gestures such as, two fingers (to scroll), swipe and pinch are not working..it frustrates me :( Please help.

If Intel has its way, touch will be just one of the ways to control Windows 8 ultrabooks. The chipmaker is looking to add voice commands and Kinect-like gestures for what it calls “perceptual computing.” On Tuesday, Intel announced a partnership with Nuance Communications to put a locally hosted...

Im using ACER 5750, with win7 32 bit HOME PREMIUM, but it doesnot support multi gesture . I installed drivers but still it does not offer multi gesture. Im able to use touch pad just as a pointing device. Can anyone solve this please.

For those who think it a pain having to type in a P/W (each time) to get into their Windows8, be aware that there is an alternative... Instead of such a P/W, one can use a picture. You simply make 3 'marks' on that picture to have access. The 'marks' can be made by mouse or Touch. Here is...

If you are moving your finger at 1 meter per second on an average 100 millisecond touch screen, your object will eventually become about 10 centimeters behind. At Microsoft Research, they have been trying to decrease the latency associated with touch screens. Albert Ng and Paul Dietz of the...

One of the major concern people had about Windows 8 is the inability to close Metro Applications but Microsoft’s latest Windows 8 pre-beta builds include a touch gesture to close Metro applications. Winrumors has released a video that explains how it works. Link Removed

Hi, I've recently disabled the zoom gestures on my tuchpad only to find that they dont get disabled in Internet Explorer 9. If i disable all gesture functionality (not only the zoom gestures) then it works and the zoom function does not work in IE9. I can't seem to get the zoom gestures...

Consider the following scenario: On a Windows 7 multitouch enabled PC, you launch the Windows Paint application. You change the color palette in Paint. You attempt to draw multiple lines simultaneously using a multitouch gesture. In this scenario, the... Link Removed

OS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac. Tap, swipe, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you...

This week on Channel 9, Dan flies solo covering the week's top developer news (A technical snafu in our other studio hosed the audio of the first recording of the show with Brian Keller). [Link Removed] ADO.NET Team - Link Removed available, adds enum and spatial data types, stored procedures...

Here's a quick look at the new start screen for Windows 8 running on a Dell XPS Development Tablet. The tablet supports both touch and external keyboard interfaces. The UI is ridiculously smooth, it seems even quicker than Windows Phone 7. On tablets Windows 8 will support PlayBook like bezel...

Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky at his D9 speech showed the tablet-native interface of Windows 8 for the first time. Borrowing heavily from the tile-based interface of Windows Phone 7, it can show a user's apps as well as live widget-like tiles, contacts and other data. Everything is intended to be...

I went to SIGCHI last week and met up with Benko and Daniel Wigdor who were presenting their paper on Rock and Rails, several new gesture paradigms being explored in Microsoft Research. If you're a Channel 9 regular, you already know Benko, but this is Daniel's first time on C9. Daniel is...

NUI is fast becoming ubiquitous when it comes interacting with our computers. Speech, touch, and now gesture are becoming everyday control methods for our machines. What is next on the horizon of user interaction? Tobii would like that to be the gaze of your eye. I met Anders Olsson at CES this...

MILFORD, Iowa, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Thinix, [thin-iks] a leader in user interface design, cloud services, and secure computing, announced today the first truly touch-optimized Internet browser for Windows 7-based tablet computers named Thinix TabletBrowser(TM). Thinix TabletBrowser...

If you watched the Link Removed, you probably saw Coding4Fun's mad scientist Link Removeddriving around in his Kinect-powered, gestured-controlled recliner. In this Show Us Your Tech I talked to Clint in the middle of building it and again after the keynote. Clint shows us inside the hardware...