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Law & Apple: Verizon Backs Samsung and the USPTO Denies Apple Its Patent

Posted 09/28/2011 at 12:09pm | by Adrian Hoppel

As Apple continues to battle Samsung across the globe in 21 different patent lawsuits, Verizon decides to join the fight here in the United States. Things should get really interesting.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the intellectual property spectrum, Apple was denied a trademark its been vying for since the iPhone was launched in 2007.

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Apple Denied Trademark Appeal On Term “Multi-Touch”

Posted 09/27/2011 at 4:44am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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Although multi-touch devices existed prior to the iPhone, few of them have made the impact that Apple’s handset has. Unfortunately, that isn’t enough to satisfy the United States Patent and Trademark Office, who has denied Cupertino’s application for a trademark on the term.

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How to Determine Which Lion Gestures Your MacBook Supports

Posted 09/14/2011 at 9:09am | by Cory Bohon

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Multi-Touch gestures are a huge feature in newer versions of Mac OS X, but Macs that support these shortcuts have only been around for a few years. In this article, we’ll tell you exactly which MacBooks support these Multi-Touch gestures, and which ones don’t.

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6 Multi-Touch Trackpad Gestures You Should Be Using

Posted 09/07/2011 at 12:20pm | by Cory Bohon

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Since Apple introduced the Multi-Touch Trackpad on the MacBook Pros a few years back, the utilization of easy-to-use gestures is on the rise. And while Lion's whole architecture is based off of these assorted swipes and finger-pulls, it's more than just moving windows and swiping between pages. Read on to learn about six other ways you can use your Trackpad to increase productivity in applications like iLife, Quicktime and even the Dock.

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How To Use your iPad and iPhone as External Devices for the Mac

Posted 08/12/2011 at 9:02am | by Cory Bohon

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iOS devices are great on their own, but if you're constantly using your Mac for work or other personal projects, you might feel like you're not fully utilizing your iPad and iPhone. With a few applications, however, you can transform your iPhone into a trackpad or your iPad into an external display and control desktop applications like Keynote and iTunes right from your mobile device. Read on to find out how.

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6 Lion Gestures You Can’t Live Without

Posted 07/25/2011 at 7:00am | by Cory Bohon

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Lion has only been out for a short while now, but as you’ve probably discovered, the new operating system has more gestures than a taxi driver in a hurry. We’ve swiped, swerved, and tapped our way through the new OS X's gestures, and here are the six that we just love.

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How to Customize Mac's Trackpad System

Posted 04/21/2011 at 12:00pm | by Scott Rose

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Is there any way to modify my Mac’s Trackpad system preference so I can further customize the Multi-Touch gestures for my own desires? In particular, I’d love to assign different keyboard shortcuts to different Multi-Touch gestures in different programs.

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Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Second Beta (Updated)

Posted 01/19/2011 at 6:46pm | by Matthew Tilmann

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iOS Remember that possible intriguing feature of iOS 4.3 that included multitouch gestures? Well, according to the second beta of iOS 4.3 that was released today, Apple clarified that it was just for developers to give it a test drive, and would not be a part of the initial public release. Rats.

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How Pro Musicians Use the iPad to Make Sweet, Sweet Music

Posted 12/10/2010 at 9:01am | by David Biedny

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While rock is full of high-profile guitar slingers, it’s a little harder to find standout keyboard players, much less one who can step up and play the dickens out of any musical genre—only venerable names like Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman come to mind. But in the last decade, one of the most prolific masters of the ivories to emerge on the scene is Jordan Rudess, a smoking keyboard player who’s also been deeply involved with all things Mac for years. He puts it more plainly: “I’ve been using a Mac since the
beginning of time.” A man after our own heart!

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HTC Moves to Innovate Android Tablet UI

Posted 08/23/2010 at 10:06am | by Seamus Bellamy

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It's the start of yet another week, and that can mean only one thing: It's time for the announcement of yet another iPad "killer." This time around, however, the smack-talk doesn't concern who it is that plans to ply their mojo against Cupertino's world-beating tablet--Instead, the flexing and posing is centred around how it's going to be done.

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