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New Laptops with Synpatics touchpad released late last year débuted with either multi-touch or partial gesture support such as ChiralMotion, two-finger scroll & pinch zoom. Some lucky users with older hardware was able to update the driver to get these features while some needed a hacked driver (no supported on Win64 as the signatures were destroyed).
But ALL Synaptics touchpads support multi-touch such as two-finger scroll. Here's a tip on how to get that. First install, Scrybe by Synaptics to get gesture support. If two-finger scroll isn't enabled, even in the touchpad settings, go on to get a resident app to unlock the two-finger scroll.
2010 started with a bang, well the Norton team over at Symantec were presented with a nice New Year Present. The Norton 2010 products received the title of ‘Best Products of 2009’ by independent test organisation AV-Comparatives
“Due to the big improvements achieved by Symantec, and the various good scores it reached in most of our tests during 2009, Symantec was awarded Best Product of the Year 2009.”
- AV-Comparatives, Anti-Virus Comparative Summary Report 2009 – December 2009
The Anti-Virus Comparative Summary Report is an annual year-end report by AV-Comparatives, which summarises the result of extensive tests among high-quality Anti-Virus products such as Norton by Symantec, Kaspersky and McAfee. Overall, Norton almost topped the whole test with a few exceptions.
After various rounds of rigorous testing on the products which include Malware Detection tests, Scanning Speed tests and Dynamic Protection tests, Symantec emerged the overall winner of 2009.
If you had bad experience with pre-2007 Norton Products (especially 2006), it's time you give Norton 2010 a try, it installs under 1min, tough security while being lightweight and fast.
Google lauched Nexus One on on January 5, 2010. Singapore, is one of the few countries together with USA, UK and Hong Kong, that Google is making the phone available for delivery to.
Here are some of the phone details.
Pricing & Availability
Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone in Europe plan to bring in the Nexus One as well during Spring 2010. The Nexus One will ship to three international market at the moment, UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Shipping To Singapore
If you are living in Singapore and interested to get the Nexus One, here is the price breakdown for you:
Hardware Specifications
Software Innovation
With Windows 7 released, windows is about almost (but not there yet) on par with OS X. Windows 7 has introduced a lot of new keyboard shortcuts for those of us who prefer to use keyboards to mice for speed.
Master List of Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mar 09)
Managing Windows
1. [Win+M] – Minimize all open windows
2. [Win+Shift+M] – Undo all window minimization
3. [Win+D] :- Toggle showing the desktop
4. [Windows+Up] – Maximize window
5. [Windows+Down] – Minimize windows / Restore
6. [Windows+Left] – Dock window to the left side
7. [Windows+Right] – Dock window to the right side
8. [Windows+Shift Up] – Maximize vertical size of window
9. [Windows+Shift Down] – Restore vertical size
10. [Windows+Shift Left] – Move window to left monitor
11. [Windows+Shift Right] – Move window to right monitor
12. [Win+Spacebar] – Aero desktop peek
13. [Win+Home] – minimize/maximize all inactive windows
14. [Alt+F4] - Close the active window
15. [Alt+Tab] - Switch to previous active window
16. [Alt+Esc] – Cycle through all open windows
17. [Win+Tab]- Flip 3D
18. [Ctrl+Win+Tab]- Persistent Flip 3D
Taskbar
1. [Win+Any number (1, 2, 3, .., 0)] – open the corresponding taskbar pinned program
2. [Ctrl+Click a pinned taskbar icon] – cycle through the program’s open windows
3. [Shift+Click a pinned taskbar icon] -run a new instance of the program
4. [Ctrl+Shift+Click a pinned taskbar icon] – run a new instance of the program as administrator
5. [Shift+Right-click on icon] – Show window menu (Restore, Minimize, Move etc)
6. [Shift+Right-click on grouped icon] - Show window menu (Restore All, Minimize All, Move All etc)
7. [Win+T] – Cycle through applications on taskbar (showing its live preview)
8. [Win+Shift+T] – As above, but in reverse order
9. [Win+R] - Opens Run dialog box
General
1. [Win+P] – show presentation mode projector options
2. [Win+G] – show desktop gadgets
3. [Win+L] – Lock computer
4. [Win+X] - Mobility Center
5. [Win++] - Zoom in
6. [Win+-] – Zoom out
7. [Win+=] – Magnifier
Windows Explorer
1. [Alt+P] - Show/hide Preview Pane
2. [Alt+Up] - Go up one level
3. [Alt+Left/Right] - Back/forward
Multi-Touch devices are getting more and more common these days but they come with a catch, it must be capacitive meaning no stylus support.
Stantum's technology has made it possible to have Multi-touch on resistive devices, meaning added stylus support for accuracy.
Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to resistive touchscreens that allows for accuracy beyond the pixel density of the display, a complete lack of touchscreen "jitters" and some fairly incredible input methods. Termed "TouchPark," the multitouch framework provides gesture recognition, cursor management and physics processing for phone builders to stick on top of the phone OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android are currently supported), and works with hardware such as Texas Instruments Zoom, Freescale i.MX and ST Nomadic.
This is a hardware implementation and it will not be possible to run it on existing resitive devices but there is an software implementation but it is still in it early stages and doesn't look promising.
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