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Microsoft SideSight: Should Apple Really Worry?

Written on October 22, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 4 people have commented

Keen not to be left behind by Apple’s increasing repertoire of multi-touch interface control gestures, Microsoft recently previewed a new technology called “SideSight.” SideSight is not just Redmond’s version of Apple’s tech, though. In fact, Microsoft’s new offering is not touch tech at all. More like proximity tech.
Gearlog provides an overview of SideSight, based on [...]

Sapiens

Written on December 04, 2007 by Gareth Jordan and 9 people have commented

Like me you may have tried out various application (and/or file) launchers now and then and possibly none have grabbed you enough to make them a regular part of your Mac life, what with their sometime idiosyncratic design philosophy and all.
If have somehow missed out on the whole launcher family of apps; if you, [...]