multi-touch

Enable Multi-Touch Tab Switching In Firefox 3.5

10:35PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.5 includes support for the multi-touch features of the latest and greatest MacBooks, but leaves out a “twist” motion that moves forward and back through browser tabs. A quick about:config hack brings it back. More »

Enable (Some) Multi-Touch Gestures In Linux

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Most of the multi-touch gestures available to iPhone and Apple laptop owners don’t require anything special, hardware-wise—except a patent licence from Apple. Linux users, however, can get some of that multi-finger goodness in three quick steps. More »

Multitouch Gestures Added To The Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta

5:59AM Adam Pash | One under-the-radar feature that came along for the ride with the recently released Firefox 3.1 Beta was multi-touch support for the latest generation of MacBooks. If you’ve got a new MacBook, the latest beta release supports swiping, pinching, and twisting your way through Firefox history, tabs, and more. [via] More »

Firefox 3.1 Build With MacBook Multi-Touch Gestures

12:34AM Kevin Purdy | Owners of MacBooks with multi-touch trackpads can try out an experimental Firefox 3.1 build that supports finger gestures—swiping left and right for back and forward, pinch zooming, and twisting between tabs, amongst others. The gestures may or may not make it into the final 3.1 release, but at least one developer finds the tab-switching twist a big convenience. [via] More »

Touchless Adds Multi-Touch To Your PC With Your Webcam

7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Microsoft Office Labs has released an open source multi-touch application framework called Touchless that uses your webcam as the input. Right now the Touchless Demo lets you play with four proof-of-concept ideas: Draw, Image, Snake, and Defend. The first is a free-form drawing application, while Image is an image manipulation utility that allows you to zoom in or out and move around on a map with marker gestures. The other two are games (Snake is exactly like the classic, and Defend is up to four-person Pong). To set up a marker that Touchless tracks, just grab something colorful, click Add A New Marker, then draw a circle around the object. From there on out, Touchless will monitor that marker wherever it is in the shot. Right now the application is a little clunky, but as a proof-of-concept it’s not bad (and it’s fun to play with). Before long multi-touch may not be limited to people who can afford several thousand dollar equipment, after all. Touchless [Microsoft Office Labs via TechCrunch] More »