Did you know Windows lets you switch between apps and get around the interface using just the touchpad? This means you don’t always need to reach for the keyboard or mouse, making navigation quicker ...

In its latest tweak to improve the experience of tablets and large-screen devices, Android 14 includes early work to better support physical keyboards and new gestures for touchpads. For years now, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Built-in trackpad gestures are getting beefed up in Windows 10. During TechEd Europe on Tuesday, Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group vice president Joe Belfiore debuted a few new touchpad gestures ...

Apple’s MacBooks come with a built-in multi-touch trackpad that supports a wide range of gestures to help you perform various operations efficiently. Likewise, its external trackpad, Magic Trackpad, ...

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

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 ...

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: ...