Windows 11 Experimental adds four new touchpad options to speed up gestures. These include automatic scrolling, accelerated scrolling, scroll/zoom speed, and single-finger vertical scrolling. Join the ...

The latest Android 15 QPR1 beta introduces a tutorial on how to use touchpad gestures for navigation. Although Google introduced touchpad gestures for navigation in last year’s Android 14 release, it ...

Tired of hunting for the volume or brightness keys on your Mac? Slidr lets you slide along your trackpad's edges to control ...

Trackpads on laptops have come a long way over the years, and that does double for Windows machines. These input devices used to be tiny, sluggish, and only able to detect a single touch input.

Windows laptop trackpads used to be a big headache, causing frustration for many users. In a 2011 ZDNET article by James Kendrick, he expressed this frustration vividly with the question, "Why do PC ...

TouchPad Gesture: Pinch to zoom from Synaptics, Inc. on Vimeo. Have you wanted multi-touch support on your notebook’s touchpad, but were out of luck because you’ve been running Ubuntu? Synaptics ...

A hand touching a laptop touchpad - Mikalai Lipski/Getty Images You won't always want to (or be able to) use a mouse with a laptop, and whether you call it a touchpad or a trackpad, it'll be your best ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Did you swipe your fingers across the touchpad only to find the cursor not responding to your gestures? This problem happens when the touchpad is ...

When using a touchpad instead of a mouse, built-in gestures come in hand. So instead of holding and scrolling using the mouse, you can use two fingers together on the touch to scroll. But what if the ...

One of the market leaders in touchpads, Synaptics, last week ported its multi-touch, gesture-based touchpads to Linux. It promises that the touchpad software is compatible with these six distros: ...