Tag : gestures

Google Chrome Developers working on new version for OSX Lion Gesture Support

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Now that we are all used to the new OSX Lion Multi-Touch gestures, it seems we have overwritten an old gesture. If you were in Snow Leopard and wanted to go back or forward a page in your web browser, you would swipe three fingers left or right. But with Lion, a 3 finger swipe moves you between full screen apps and your spaces.

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New Gestures In iOS 5 Beta 3

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The third pre-release version of iOS 5 shipped yesterday, with it came several new accessibility gestures.

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New Remote App For Your iPhone/iPod Touch Lets You Control Apple TV Through Multitouch Gestures

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Many people were excited to hear rumors about Apple TV to be renamed as iTV and that it would run apps from the App Store but nothing like that was revealed in the media event on September 1. Still, the new Apple TV has some interesting features like TV show rentals, cheap price and one of the good ones is that you can control your Apple TV using your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with an all new gesture controlled remote app.

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Microsoft’s patent for gesture based messaging system

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Windows Mobile 7 Not much is known about Windows Mobile 7 at this point. The most recent update has been from Stephen Chapman on Microsoft seeking testers for Windows Mobile 7 Search and Browser teams. I recently stumbled across this interesting patent based on messaging system controllable by gestures. Microsoft applied for a patent for Controlling an Integrated Messaging System Using Gestures which says:

Methods and apparatus for displaying and interacting with messages are described. Messages are displayed using one of a number of different visualization schemes provided. A user can interact with messages or change the selected visualization scheme using gestures and the mapping of gestures to particular actions is different for different visualization schemes. In an embodiment the messages are received via integrated messaging channels and messages are classified using a number of properties. Each of the visualization schemes has a different way of graphically representing messages and each scheme is adapted to emphasize a different combination of message properties.

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How to enable multi-touch in Firefox 3.5

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Firefox 3.5 multi-touch gestures macbook pro

Firefox 3.5 had experimental support for multi-touch gestures through out beta, but in the final version the support has been hidden by default. The gestures were compatible with Macbooks and Macbook Pros that have multi-touch enabled track-pads. These multi-touch gestures for tab switching can be enabled by the following instructions:

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