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Wacom Updates Bamboo Line With Multi-Touch

Written on September 24, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 9 people have commented

This news isn’t specific to Apple, but it definitely affects Apple users. As a longtime Mac user and amateur digital artist, I’ve also owned many a Wacom tablet over the years. Most recently, I graduated to a Cintiq 12WX, but the Graphire was my primary workhorse for many years. The Bamboo is the successor to [...]

The Curious Case of the Missing MacBook Pro Keyboard and Trackpad

Written on April 06, 2009 by Clayton Lai and 51 people have commented

About three weeks ago, the keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro (from mid-2007) began failing randomly for no apparent reason. I would turn it on only to find its keyboard and trackpad unresponsive to any input. Rebooting sometimes helped, but many times it did not. Without a reproducible pattern I could determine, it was [...]

Using Your iPhone as a Trackpad

Written on November 06, 2008 by David Appleyard and 7 people have commented

There has been a huge amount of speculation about whether Apple would release a laptop with a trackpad resembling an iPhone or iPod touch screen. While this always seemed unlikely, there’s no doubt that the iPhone has the perfect sized screen to function as an (albeit very over-featured) trackpad. Snatch is an application for the [...]