multitouch pc touchpad
So there are a few neat features that Macbooks have that can make PC users a little jealous. One of those features is the multitouch trackpad mouse that Macbooks have. But its actually pretty easy to get this multi touch software on your PC laptop / notebook now, here’s how. Windows 7 is definitely compatible, however older versions of windows should work too.
If you have a PC chances are (almost 100%) that Synaptics makes the drivers and software for your touch pad. You can visit Synaptics.com and download a software upgrade for your touch pad called “Scrybe” multitouch gesture technology. Its Free. Depending on how refined your touch pad hardware is, combined with how powerful your computers processing power is your multitouch experience will either be laggy, buggy and poor, or terrific.
Download the software here: http://www.uscrybe.com/
On my Sony Vaio with an Nvidia 310m Graphics Card, Core i5 Processor, and electrostatic touch pad, I get great results. No its not 100% as smooth as my buddies macbook, but the two finger scrolling and gesture image rotation work very well. I’m not a fan of the pinch zoom because its extremely hard to fine tune the zoom level and almost impossible to get the screen back to the original zoom level, so I have it disabled….
Instructions
Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Mouse -> Device Settings -> Settings and then expand the Multifinger Gestures menu. When you select a gesture a video also demonstrates the hand movement in case you are doing it wrong.
Yes that’s another great part about the Synaptics Scrybe multitouch software. It allows you to enable or disable certain gestures so you can only have the ones activated that work well / or are what you want. For example, a few times I accidentally used the pinch zoom feature when I didn’t want to which made my text shrink to what seemed like size 0, so I just disabled that feature.
