Browse tag: input

Browse tag: input

Review: Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000
The Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000’s thinness and light weight make it ideal for travel, but it’s a basic keyboard that will require you adjust to its design and layout.
Slideshow: Unconventional (but useful) input devices
In this slideshow, we present to you several input devices that are a lot different from the mouse (or laptop trackpad) and keyboard used on a daily basis.
Macworld Buying Guide: Mice
We’re in the Golden Age of Rodents. It’s time to look at the mice you’re missing. However, the wealth of choices can be daunting. We have a few tips to help you.
Macworld Buying Guide: Keyboards
The keyboard you choose is based on a personal decision, but there are some features and terms you should understand so you make the proper buying decision. And that’s what this guide is here to do. Here are our tips to buying a new keyboard.
Apple posts Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0
Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 is available for OS X 10.5.8 and later, allowing access to the "special features" on the Apple Wireless Keyboard.
Bugs & Fixes: Magic Mouse loses its way
A pair of irritating symptoms have made Ted Landau's experience with Apple's latest mouse less than magical.
xGestures updated for Snow Leopard
xGestures is a program that allows mouse movements to trigger menu items, keystrokes, and AppleScripts; it's recently been updated to work with Snow Leopard.
Jitouch adds new gestures to Multi-Touch trackpads
Jitouch is a simple program that adds eight new sets of gestures to the Multi-Touch trackpads on recent Apple portables.
Video: Up close with the Magic Mouse
In this video, Roman Loyola takes a close look at Apple new Magic Mouse and its Multi-Touch gestures.
Review: Apple Magic Mouse
Though it’s not perfect, the Magic Mouse successfully combines design and usability.
iFixit tears down the Magic Mouse
Apple’s new touchy Magic Mouse bares all at the hands of the iFixit crew, who once again work their dastardly destruction.
First Look: Apple Magic Mouse
Apple’s Magic Mouse has a creative new design that, upon first impression, you’ll either love of hate.
Apple unveils multi-touch Magic Mouse
Apple's replaced its existing Mighty Mouse pointing device with the new Magic Mouse, which foregoes the rollerball in favor of a multi-touch surface.
Review: Targus Wireless Mouse for Mac
Longtime users of Apple products won’t mistake the Targus Wireless Mouse for Mac as an Apple product, but it is certainly designed in the spirit of Apple.
'Mighty Mouse' trademark awarded, but not to CBS or Apple
Another company has been awarded rights to the name "Mighty Mouse," which may leave Apple in want of a new moniker.
USB Overdrive lets you control your input devices
USB Overdrive 3 provides Snow Leopard (as well as Tiger and Leopard) users with customizable, system-level mouse and keyboard control without slowing down your system.
Wacom releases new Bamboo tablet line
Wacom's new line of tablets sports a streamlined design and multi-touch gestures, and eliminates the mouse.
USB Overdrive 3.0 adds 64-bit Snow Leopard support
Version 3.0 of Alessandro Levi Montalcini's venerable USB Overdrive utility for interfacing with USB input devices adds support for 64-bit Snow Leopard and more.
Apple keyboard firmware vulnerability demonstrated
A presenter at last week's Black Hat security conference demonstrated a method by which a keylogging program could be inserted in Apple's keyboard firmware.
Belkin rolls out new Comfort Mice, including Bluetooth model
Belkin has introduced three new mice, including a new Bluetooth model.
Mac News Briefs: Pointer loop offers in-air control of Macs
The in-air mouse from Hillcrest Labs is targeted at users who connect their Mac or PC to a television set. Also, Shion home-automation software and the MAPublisher plug-in suite for Illustrator saw updates Monday.
Review: TuneBoard Speaker Keyboard
The idea behind the TuneBoard is a clever one, and the TuneBoard's keyboard section is solid. However, given that most Macs these days include speakers that compete with, or easily best, the TuneBoard's speakers, the TuneBoard is a better fit for the Mac mini and Mac Pro--computers with only a tiny, monaural internal speaker.
Mimio Studio 6 for Mac adds multimedia support
Mimio Studio 6, the software that drives the Mimio interactive whiteboard system, is coming to Mac this June.
Wacom introduces Intuos4 tablet
Wacom unveiled the Intuos4 pen tablet on Wednesday, with greatly improved pen sensitivity.
The Mac at 25: Forgotten Apple products
The Mac may be celebrating its 25th anniversary, but some of the products Apple has made over the years wound up slipping through history’s cracks. Benj Edwards takes a closer look at five offerings out of Cupertino that you may have forgotten about.
The Mac at 25: Six of Apple’s worst products
Sure, the Mac has been a landmark product. But not everything Apple touches turns to gold. Adam Engst looks back at a few of Cupertino’s less-inspired ideas.
The Mac at 25: Storage
Faster data connections and solid-state drives are the future in storage for your Mac. As the 25th anniversary of the Mac approaches, Rik Myslewski looks at how your machine will deal with data in the near future.
The Mac at 25: Interface design
Ever since Apple introduced the world to the mouse and the window-based graphical user interface in 1984, the company has worked tirelessly to develop a more efficient, yet more powerful, user experience. Rik Myslewski combs through recent Apple patent filings to look at ways interacting with your Mac could change in the future.
Expo: Kensington rolls out mice, chargers, other accessories
The peripherals maker has around a dozen new items that it’s released in time for Macworld Expo as well as the Consumer Electronics Show.
Expo: Kensington puts it all on the ball
Kensington’s $130 SlimBlade Trackball routes all control through trackball rotation.