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Anthony Caruana
pptPlex, a Microsoft Labs-created add-in for PowerPoint that makes presentations more interactive, hasn’t seen a lot of development since it appeared back in 2008. A new update gets the add-in working for users of the forthcoming Office 2010 release.
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.
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…
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