Apple Software Update: iTunes 10.5.3

iTunes 10.5.3 allows you to sync interactive iBooks textbooks to your iPad. These Multi-Touch textbooks are available for purchase from the iTunes Store on your Mac or from the iBookstore included with iBooks 2 on your iPad.

iBooks textbooks are created with iBooks Author — now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit: support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

 

 

Acer working on Multi-Touch Screen

There have been leaked images of a multi-touch screen that is in the works from Acer:

http://www.gadgetlite.com/2010/09/12/leaked-acers-dual-multitouch

Apple gives us new stuff

Look at all the lovely new stuff Apple are giving us:

The new iPod Touch with FaceTime, Retina Display, HD video recorder and Game center:

The new iPod Shuffle with Multi-Touch

The new iPod nano with new VoiceOver and the return of controls.

The awaited release of Apple tv, rent HD films and stream media content from your PC, all for £99

and now iTunes 10 with the new social network for music, Ping.

Ubuntu to get Multi-Touch

Ubuntu Linux is to get Multi-Touch in 10.10?:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/18/ubuntu.linux.to.get.multi.touch.this.october/

Firefox 4 beta 3 Multi-Touch Video

Yesterday we reported that Mozilla have released Firefox have released version 4 beta 3.  Check out this video showing the Multi-Touch support in action:

Microsoft to release multi-touch mouse

Microsoft are planning to release a multi-touch mouse.  Good luck with that.  Check out the report here:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/05/microsoft.arc.touch.mouse.to.fight.magic.mouse/

Apple release the Magic Trackpad

We showed some pictures back in June about Apple getting ready to release a Multitouch Magic Trackpad and then mid this month that the FCC had approved a Bluetooth device, well now it’s here, the Magic Trackpad.

The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one.

The Magic Trackpad is to replace the traditional mouse and we can’t wait to get our hands on it to find out what it’s like.

In a nutshell it is a Multi-Touch device made from Apple’s wear-resistant glass and is 80 per cent larger than a MacBook Pro trackpad.  It is also the same height and angle as an Apple Keyboard so will look fantastic next to each other.  Connection is via Bluetooth, so nice and easy.  It costs £59.

You can check out more details here:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC380?mco=MTg1ODA3NDY#overview