Every modern laptop has a smooth square beneath the keyboard designed to help you navigate without a mouse. On a MacBook, it's called a trackpad; on a Windows PC, it's called a touchpad. But ...

Your laptop’s touchpad isn’t just for pointing, clicking, and zooming in and out. That rectangular surface also supports gestures that let you switch between apps, control media playback, manage files ...

Touchpads have been a more portable alternative to mice since the 1980s, but the robustness, tactility, and reliability of a mouse are hard to beat. That said, touchpads have evolved well past their ...

The new Windows 8 release to manufacturing doesn't seem to support touch-pad gestures out of the box, so you may need to download the drivers yourself. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney ...

Apple’s new Magic Trackpad lets you perform Multi-Touch gestures on desktop Macs. Like the Magic Mouse ( ), the Magic Trackpad’s system preference pane includes video demonstrations of how to perform ...

Google is working on a new menu for customizing the three-finger tap gesture for touchpads. The new menu will let you set a three-finger tap to do a middle click, launch Gemini, go home, or view ...