Touch Support Archive

  • iWork 2010 announced, will support iPad’s multi-touch controls (and your regular Mac, too)

    iWork 2010 announced, will support iPad’s multi-touch controls (and your regular Mac, too)

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Another year, another release of iLife. This time, though, with full iPadsupport. Yes, Apple showed off iLife 2010 at its big press conference today, and the updates are about what you'd expect from the application suite: incremental and filled with one or two things that make you say, "Wow, neat." That being the multi-touch support.

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  • TomTom updated to support iPod touch and original iPhone

    TomTom updated to support iPod touch and original iPhone

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments

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    Back in much simpler times, TomTom's navigation app had claimed compatibility with all iPhone and iPod touch models. Then suddenly, somewhere along the primrose path to publication, original iPhone and iPod touch support evaporated. But no more. TomTom's pushed an update that allows for turn-by-turn navigation, but of course, you'll still need the car kit to work. Was this the missing link between your $100 and owning this app? [Warning: iTunes link]

    [Thanks, Scott M]

    TomTom updated to support iPod touch and original iPhone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • BumpTop Goes Multi-Touch. Um, Awesome.

    BumpTop Goes Multi-Touch. Um, Awesome.

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    What if the desktop on your computer was just like your actual desktop? That’s the core idea behind BumpTop, a really nice looking graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. But as cool as BumpTop looked, you still had to use your mouse and keyboard to manipulate it. As I made clear yesterday, I want those to die. So good news for me today: BumpTop is adding multi-touch support. And the result is awesome. When we think of multi-touch right now, most of us think of the iPhone. But really, with such a small screen, there are only so many gestures you can do. Multi-touch BumpTop greatly expands that roster, and includes several gestures that it claims to have patents for. Basically, they have gestures that use all of you fingers, and both hands, and even the side of hands. You can “lasso” things, “shove” them, “scrunch” them, and “crop” them.

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  • Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons

    Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Anyone who has followed Apple news/rumors/patents over the past couple of years has probably noticed a certain trend emerging: Apple seems to be slowly shifting its entire line of products to touch-based computing. That is to say, it's moving its products away from buttons and keys, towards manipulation through a touchscreen interface. While obviously, MacBook trackpads have used some level of touch for a long time, this trend really started with the iPhone, which presented the first excellent use of multi-touch in a consumer device. From there, Apple slowly began adding multi-touch support to the aforementioned notebook trackpads, to the point where they all now feature it. And then of course, there's the iPod touch, which is an iPod with multi-touch support.

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