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dinsdag 24 maart 2009

Dell one has multi touch as an option and Fingertapps are right on this

A lot has been said already about the One however what I like about this line is that there is a multi-touch option (comes with a keyboard as well) that would make it a good choice for a kitchen or family room PC. Because the system is an all-in-one it also is a spacesaver. The system I saw also has Cozi.com Family Calendering system loaded. The starting price of $699 is friendly on the budget. Listed below are some specifications from the Dell press release.

Software from Dell:

  • Easy multi-touch photo editing, slideshow creation, playlist compilation, notes, and even web browsing.
  • Unleash creativity with You Paint finger painting software.
  • Record videos and upload directly to YouTube with the touch of a finger.
  • Flick to Flickr – Upload photos to Flickr to share with family and friends.
  • Create a musical masterpiece with the multi-touch percussion center.

Technical Specifications:

  • Intel® Celeron, Dual Core Celeron, Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Quad Core Processor options
  • Choice of nVidia GeForce 9200 or GeForce 9400 integrated graphics
  • Up to 4GB dual channel memory
  • Up to 750GB HDD
  • Slot load Optical drive
  • 7-in-1 media card reader, six USB ports
  • Optional integrated wireless, web camera, Blu-ray Disc™
  • Optional multi-touch capability
  • Optional facial recognition security (with webcam)

But besides all these specs (that we all already know perhaps) the good thing is that Fingertapps is right there on it! Fingertapps are in fact the developers of the Dell TouchZone software, the application suite that provides the focal point for the touch experience on the Studio One.
TouchZone makes full use of the touch hardware to introduce some handy new gestures and 'actionable touch' behaviors (it's not just about resizing and rotating photos you know!). So this is kind of promising news

vrijdag 23 januari 2009

The average web developer can now easily create multi touch apps using flash

When reading through the blogposts I monitor I came accross a pretty nice one. Fingertapps is working on a SDK to enable people to create multitouch applications in Flash (linked here). The great thing about this is that there are many many flash developers out in the field and the now can create multitouch apps. This could definately help in bringing multitouch to the masses

For those too lazy to click the link I also copied the post below:

Multi-Touch Applications using Adobe(R) Flash(R) & Fingertapps

We've been busy working away on a number of new capabilities and one all consuming project, looking forward to being able to write about those soon. In the meantime, here's a sneak preview of our new integration with Adobe(R) Flash(R) which enables a Flash application to run within the Fingertapps platform and access touch events.

That enables any developer using Flash to add multi-touch gestures to their new or existing Flash applications and just for fun we've also exposed access to full screen, high definition video playback and our real time 3D engine.

We're planning to extend this capability even further in the near future so that more of our Fingertapps widgets can be used directly from within ActionScript, making it an option for developing Fingertapps applications (in addition to the native Fingertapps script itself).