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So last week in the US I finally got my iPhone which I, purely for educational purposes, activated, jailbreaked and unlocked. It did work like a charm. The first time around it took me a little longer, the second time (why, a second time? for fun of course) the whole process including downgrade and update [...]
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Filed under: APPLE, GADGETS, HARDWARE, iPhone
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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Filed under: HARDWARE, MAC OSX
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 patent application [...]
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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 such [...]
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The next Apple portables to hit the market (expected in June 06′) are rumored (confirmed by reliable sources) to be: 12″ MacBook Pro (max. 1″ thick) 13.3″ iBook
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Ever wanted to easily increase and decrease the font size of a webpage (Works with Firefox only)? Hold Apple and touch your TrackPad with 2 fingers, moving forward to decrease or backward to increase.
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Filed under: HARDWARE, MAC APPS
