Apple still refuses to release a touchscreen MacBook (no, the Touch Bar doesn't count), but one group of developers have come up with a clever solution. Using some impressive AI software and about a buck's worth of hardware, the team was able to bring rudimentary touchscreen controls to an Apple laptop.

Windows: If you use Windows 10 on a touchscreen-enabled device like the Surface, you might notice that the on-screen keyboard covers up the taskbar when it's in use. Here's how to show both at the same time.

Have a Windows touchscreen laptop or tablet and want to control it more with taps and swipes? Here's a "slide to shutdown" shortcut for you.

Touchscreens are incorporated into almost all new technologies, from smart-phones, tablet computers and personal gadgets to flat panel televisions and household appliances. This explosion of technology is reliant on a key component: a display that is both transparent and able to conduct electrical charge.

Dear Lifehacker, I am in the market for an Ultrabook and am looking for one without a touch screen. I know touch screens are the way of the future but I am quite happy living in the past for a while longer! Also I don't really want to pay for something that I am never going to use. What would you recommend? Thanks, Untouched

Forget this 4-inch nonsense. You haven't used a touchscreen until you've played with 82 inches running Windows 8.

We've looked at turning a MacBook into a tablet computer and even written some software for you to turn it into a nice heads up display, but Instructables user mkarvonen has created a how-to that demonstrates how to turn virtually any laptop into a touchscreen tablet -- so long as you have the requisite patience.

You may have seen the Nomad Brush, which is a paint brush designed for your iPad (or really any capacitive touchscreen device). The downside is that it costs $US25. Instructables user velogirl really wanted one, and so she decided to make her own rather than shell out the cash. You can, too.

If the standard trackpad just isn't doing it for you on your laptop or netbook, and you've got the itch to do a little modding, blogger Pierre Vernaeckt shows us how to replace its display with a touch screen.

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We've featured one DIY MacBook Tablet before, but this particular model takes a very different approach, modding only the screen itself for a cheap, usable tablet computer.

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Earlier this month we shared a DIY touchscreen stylus for the iPad. That build was clever but unfinished looking. This version is polished and what commercial manufacturers should be bringing to market.

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If you'd like some finer control when using a touchscreen, especially on devices with a nice expansive one like the iPad, you can convert a pen to do a stylus' job for next to nothing.

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Whether you've got an an iPad, a different snazzy tablet, an Android phone or some other touchscreen device, sometimes your fingertip isn't the ideal input device. With a few common materials, you can make an effective and inexpensive stylus for your touchscreen.

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We've seen all kinds of touchscreen solutions for when fingers don't suit. A mobile-centered blog suggests an anti-static bag can also make the touch-sensitive grade.