From the monthly archives: October 2006

Zoom with Mac OS X 10.4.8

By On 2006/10/24 · Leave a Comment

since the last OS upgrade (10.4.8) you can easily zoom in on the cursor area by holding the CTRL key and using the scroll function of your track pad (ie. using two fingers to move forwards and backwards).

limitations: track pad scrolling must be enabled in the keyboard & mouse preferences where zooming options can [...]

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Rosetta = QuickTransit by Transitive

By On 2006/10/24 · Leave a Comment

From what I could gather on the net, Apple’s technology Rosetta, which allows to run applications coded for PowerPC architecture on an Intel Mac is not a development of their own but an implementation of the product QuickTransit from Transitive.

Read up.

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Applied in the real world: User interface for Apple Tablet

By On 2006/10/24 · Leave a Comment

Gestures for touch sensitive input devices- looks very much like a GUI for a tablet with a touch sensitive screen. Clearly, there are lots of example of prior art but Apple has put a lot of thought into this and hopefully it is a glimpse of a future product.

>> check out the [...]

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Multi-Touch Interaction Research

By On 2006/10/24 · Leave a Comment

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios [...]

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Suggestions for gmail v2

By On 2006/10/23 · Leave a Comment

if you want to share your suggestions for the next major gmail and google talk update you can submit them to google.

>> have your say

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