Mac + iPad: iOS 4.3 was supposed to add really useful four-finger and five-finger multitouch gestures on the iPad, but unfortunately they weren’t included in the official release — or more precisely, they’re in the release, but you can’t enable them without a little know-how. More »
Along with hardware upgrades to their Mac Pro, iMac and Cinema Display lines, Apple unveiled something entirely different for owners of their desktop computers: a fully functional, stand-alone “Magic Trackpad” that offers the same multi-finger control of the MacBook trackpad. More »
Windows: We recently detailed two ways of getting Mac-like multi-finger scrolling on a Windows laptop, involving little open-source apps and hacked drivers. Touchpad giant Synaptics actually offers its own app, Scrybe, that provides multi-finger scrolling, along with gesture-style application launching. More »
Mac only: No longer must Mac users move to the keyboard to open links in a new tab — free, open-source app MiddleClick sits in your menu bar and allows you to use three fingers to middle click on Apple’s multitouch devices. More »
Once you’ve used the hand-helping, time-saving, two-finger scrolling and three-finger gestures on a MacBook, a standard Windows trackpad can feel kind of, well, dead. Here’s how to get total finger control with a tiny app, or go further with a driver swap. More »
Mac OS X: Like its Windows 7 counterpart, the BumpTop desktop replacement arrives on OS X with all kinds of ways of manipulating and organising files, folders, images and applications. It also integrates with the Mac’s own window-handling tools. More »
