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Synaptics Waves Around New Touchpad Gestures
Synaptics Waves Around New Touchpad Gestures
Synaptics has added two new gestures to its trackpads, bringing more multi touch goodness to notebooks which aren't made by Apple. Gestures have been around for some time, although – until the iPhone debuted – they were either software features or limited in utility. Most laptop users have ...
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synaptics.com — Synaptics Adds Two Innovative Advanced Gestures to its Growing Library of TouchPad™ Gesture Recognition September 30, 2008... Synaptics Adds Two Innovative Advanced Gestures to its Growing Library of TouchPad Gesture Recognition More >>  ... (more) Synaptics
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Synaptic Waves gestures introduced
SlashGear — ... There’s also the Two-Finger Flick, which can make for sideways scrolling, flipping pages or what have you. These functions are described as “drop-in driver upgrades” for the Synaptic trackpads that are already “multi-touch aware.” This is really cool because a lot of laptop trackpads are made by Synaptics, which means you might have one right now, which means you could download the driver and start using gestures right now! [via Gadget Lab at Wired] ...

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