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BumpTop as a Finder Replacement: Unlikely

Written on April 09, 2009 by Nick Santilli and 12 people have commented

Most people have seen the BumpTop videos on YouTube and TED by now. (If you haven’t, I’ve embedded their current demo vid below. Take a look!) The official desktop replacement has been in private beta (for Windows only) for a little while now, and I’ve had the pleasure of playing along at home. The [...]

Multitouch Trackpad vs. Touch Screen Computing

Written on December 07, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 16 people have commented

I have some friends (mac-using friends) who are gaga over some of the new commercials they’ve seen of touch screen Windows-capable machines — namely the HP TouchSmart PCs. On one level I understand — that stuff looks cool! But I quickly come back and think, realistically how useful is this? When I pointed [...]

Experimental Firefox Allows Multitouch Interaction

Written on October 22, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 9 people have commented

Hot on the heels of Apple’s new MacBook line — which among other things, offers a multitouch trackpad –coming to market, we’re seeing the first third party applications which support multitouch gestures. Mozilla is the first to the party, and has now made available an experimental build that will support multitouch gestures from within [...]