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	Synaptics Products :: Touchpad
		Synaptics TouchPad™ devices are touch-sensitive pads that sense the position of a person's finger on its surface to provide screen navigation, cursor movement, and a platform for interactive input.
		Synaptics TouchPad devices are the industry leading solution, known for their durability, reliability, and accuracy.
		Synaptics TouchPad devices also offer advanced device driver features that allow end users to customize their TouchPad device settings to meet their individual preferences.
	www.synaptics.com /products/touchpad.cfm (195 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - touchpad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Similar to a mouse, a touchpad is a device for moving a pointer around a computer display.
		Additionally, a touchpad is a sealed unit so it is unaffected by crumbs or dust, a real asset for a portable device that might be used in almost any environment.
		Some proponents of touchpads feel they are less likely than a mouse to cause repetitive motion injuries; not all experts agree with this assessment.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?searchtype=2&DicID=19288&RefType=Encyclopedia&guid= (385 words)

	EE476 final project: Zen touchpad
		For the Zen touchpad, absolute tracking is most appropriate, because we want locations on the touchpad relative to its edges and size to correspond to the same locations on the LCD, also relative to its edges and size.
		Alps Electronics' own documentation for their touchpad explains the data format used for "advanced mode," which is basically absolute position reporting, as opposed to "mouse compatibility mode," in which the touchpad reports relative position like a PS/2 mouse.
		To facilitate reading and writing bytes from and to the touchpad, I first wrote some helper functions and macros, including routines that wait for the clock (pin C0) and data (pin C1) lines to float high or be pulled low and a delay subroutine that simply spins for a given number of microseconds.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/ee476/FinalProjects/s2000/fiore/touchpad.html (1856 words)

	UK Touchpad - Free UK Delivery on many items
		Touchpads commonly operate by sensing the capacitance of a finger.
		Touchpads are primarily used in portable laptop computers, because the usual mouse device requires a flat table adjacent to the keyboard not always available away from the office.
		But touchpads have some advantages over the mouse, particularly that the pad's position is fixed relative to the keyboard, and very short finger movements are required to move the cursor across the display screen.
	www.rtaylor.co.uk /e/Touchpad.html (278 words)

	Computer system having a configurable touchpad-mouse button combination - Patent 6392637
		With a touchpad however, the user is required to incorporate the full width and length of the pad, approximately 11/2 to 2 inches, to move the cursor.
		As such, when overlay 46e is adhered to touchpad 42, the single section 1246a overlays second part 42b of touchpad 42 for cursor functions, and the plurality of sections 1146a and 1146b overlay first part 42a of touchpad 42 for button functions.
		The touchpad is configured with a first portion which is usable for button functions to select items on a display panel, and a second portion which is usable for cursor movement and placement functions.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /6392637.html (3971 words)

	CHI 97: The Tactile Touchpad
		Although touchpads are also available for desktop computers, most people prefer a mouse for their desktop system.
		With a touchpad, pointer movement is accomplished by sliding a finger along the touchpad's surface.
		Similar feedback may be elicited from a touchpad by means of a mechanical solenoid or relay positioned under the pad and activated with an electrical signal to create a "click" sensation in the fingertip.
	www.sigchi.org /chi97/proceedings/short-talk/sm.htm (1060 words)

	Method for gesture detection on a touchpad patent invention
		In a gesture detection method for a touchpad, various gestures such as tap, drag and double tap are determined by operating an object to touch on the touchpad, leave from the touchpad, and move on the touchpad.
		When the sensed value is greater than a threshold th, it is determined that an object touches on the touchpad 100, and on the contrary, when the sensed value is less than the threshold th, it is determined that the object leaves the touchpad 100 or no object touches on the touchpad 100.
		[0006] In a gesture detection method for a touchpad, according to the present invention, various gestures such as tap, drag and double tap are determined by operating an object to touch on the touchpad, leave from the touchpad, and move on the touchpad.
	www.freshpatents.com /Method-for-gesture-detection-on-a-touchpad-dt20070118ptan20070013669.php (1473 words)

	Macsimum News - Apple files new patent for wide touchpad for notebooks
		In one embodiment, the wide touchpad may be a cursor control device having the capabilities of conventional computer mouse devices, such as the ability to point, drag, tap, and double tap objects on a graphical user interface, as well as more general purposes such as scrolling, panning, zooming, and rotating images on display screen.
		2, touchpad 224 extends into the areas on the surface 232 of base assembly 220 that are normally reserved for palm rest areas (e.g., areas 252, 254, designated by circled hash marks), but still allows a user to rest his or her palms on the surface of touchpad 224.
		The three regions of touchpad 224 may be activated or deactivated selectively, based on a particular touch region or “contact patch” sensed by touchpad 224 in association with the particular region of sensor 240 that detects a hand portion or fingers extending towards the keys of keyboard 222.
	www.macsimumnews.com /index.php/archive/11145 (4888 words)

	Touchpad Lockset Doorknob - Antique Brass PAKK-01AQ
		Never look for keyholes in the dark again with glow-in-the-dark touchpad locksets that unlock your door when you enter a customized code.
		These convenient touchpad systems are similar to high-security applications found in office buildings and institutional facilities, yet can be easily installed at home by anyone who knows how to use a screwdriver.
		The Touchpad Lockset Doorknob is also available in nickel finish, oiled bronze and brass.
	www.smarthome.com /5184a.html (396 words)

	What is a Touchpad? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A touchpad is a device designed to translate user input in the form of motions aimed at moving a cursor to a computer.
		Instead of using sensors and a roller ball or laser like a mouse, a touchpad is a soft pad with sensors that respond to finger movements on the pad.
		In addition to the basic mouse-like function that a touchpad provides, it can also be programmed to have “hot spots.” When the user taps on one of these spots, it can be used to scroll a document, open a frequently used program, or perform some other commonly used function.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-a-touchpad.htm (428 words)

	PowerBook/touchpad - Johannes MoinMoin
		The touchpad claims to be a HID device but doesn't really send HID events as far as I can tell, but rather its own transfers.
		Those values with first component 0 seem to signify some other level that only covers the left part of the touchpad in X direction, but are less sensitive.
		Also, multiple fingers are reported correctly, if there are two fingers on the touchpad you don't know on which of the 4 positions they are (unless this data is sent and we haven't seen it yet).
	johannes.sipsolutions.net /PowerBook/touchpad (368 words)

	L i v e l a b . d k - Products - Touchpad 2 MIDI
		Touchpad 2 Midi is a free VST plugin for Windows that allows you to use the touchpad on your laptop as a midi controller.
		At the moment only Synaptics touchpads are supported - we are working on adding support for USB touchpads as well, but have not yet heard from Cirque / Adesso regarding how to read raw data from their touchpads.
		If Touchpad 2 Midi does not work with your host, you can use it as a standalone application using SaviHost and a virtual midi driver like this one.
	www.livelab.dk /touchpad2midi.php (303 words)

	Ergonomic Touchpad Mouse
		Touchpads are small squares that sense the position of your finger on them, and then move the cursor accordingly.
		Touchpads are stationary and requires little force to use, and as a result they may help reduce stress on your fingers, hands, arms and shoulders.
		A touchpad takes up very little desk space and some models offer hot keys to minimize keyboard use.
	www.askergoworks.com /category/76/Touchpads.aspx (83 words)

	www.centos.org - Forums - Miscellaneous Questions - laptop touchpad
		In Windows I was able to configure my touchpad so that it did not do any clicking when I tapped it (I'm old-fashioned and I click the button when I want to click).
		I believe I may be able to disable the touchpad but I don't want that; I only want to stop the tapping.
		Probably your touchpad is not recognized correctly/missing drivers.
	www.centos.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4244&forum=23 (179 words)

	Touchpad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Touchpad is software package that provides touchpad control related features on wince device.
		Substitute the wince touchpad MDD layer with an open module, or touchpad driver modification which would never more need the MDD layer.
		After this goals reached, the main touchpad driver module would have win the platform and hardware independence, what is IMHO, good thing to fight for.
	openwince.sourceforge.net /touchpad (183 words)

	Laptop touchpad stopped fucntioning - Knoppix.net
		Well I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade and the double tap on my laptop touchpad stopped working.
		I have a synaptics (might be spelled synaptix) touchpad, and a dell latitude CSx laptop.
		I've been unable to double-click on the touchpad since kernel 2.6.
	www.knoppix.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=17747&highlight= (255 words)

	How to Clean Your Laptop’s Touchpad
		We will be speaking today about this laptops that have a touchpad as their pointing device and most of all, we will be speaking about how to clean the laptops’ touchpad.
		Always remember not to push too hard when cleaning the surface of the touchpad since the laptop’s touchpad is a fragile device that may suffer injuries while cleaning it.
		After cleaning it, if the touchpad was seriously wet, and the touchpad does not responde in the normal, expected way.
	www.ideamarketers.com /library/article.cfm?articleid=129319&from=PROFILE (661 words)

	Apple's Wide Touchpad Patent - Gizmodo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A sketch that appears to show a ultra-wide touchpad for laptops.
		The documentation states that this is a traditional touchpad used to control and move the cursor.
		For example: one palm could be rested on the touchpad while the other hand can be actually using the touchpad.
	gizmodo.com /gadgets/laptops/apples-wide-touchpad-patent-158083.php (306 words)

	LWN: Patch: Apple USB Touchpad driver (new)
		Hi, This is a driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on post-February 2005 Apple PowerBooks (PowerBook5,6).
		Credits go to Johannes Berg for reverse-engineering the touchpad protocol, Frank Arnold for further improvements, and Alex Harper for some additional information about the inner workings of the touchpad sensors.
		Index: linux-2.6-trunk.git/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt =================================================================== --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6-trunk.git/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt 2005-07-08 11:15:03.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +Apple Touchpad Driver (appletouch) +---------------------------------- + Copyright (C) 2005 Stelian Pop + +appletouch is a Linux kernel driver for the USB touchpad found on post +February 2005 Apple Alu Powerbooks.
	lwn.net /Articles/143105 (856 words)

	Touchpad Lockset Deadbolt - Brass PKF-01P
		Never look for keyholes in the dark again with this glow-in-the-dark touchpad lockset that locks or unlocks your door's deadbolt lock when you enter a customized code.
		This convenient touchpad system is similar to high-security applications found in office buildings and institutional facilities, yet can be easily installed at home by anyone who knows how to use a screwdriver.
		The Touchpad Lockset Deadbolt is also available in nickel finish, antique brass and oiled bronze.
	www.smarthome.com /5183B.html (393 words)

	Synaptics TouchPad driver for XOrg/XFree86
		A Synaptics touchpad by default operates in compatibility mode by emulating a standard mouse.
		If, instead, you set MaxTapMove=0 in the X config file, then the touchpad will not use tapping for a single finger tap (left mouse button click) but will for the two and three finger tap (middle and right button click).
		The gpm driver and the X driver both try to read data from the touchpad, and if they try to read at the same time, both drivers see incomplete data and don't know how to interpret it.
	web.telia.com /~u89404340/touchpad (1233 words)

	What is touchpad? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		Industrial Keyboards from IKEY, LTD. - Browse Ikey's complete line of NEMA rated industrial keyboards, and flat panel monitors.
		The Cirque Corporation site provides information on their line of GlidePoint Touchpad devices, company information, products, and technical support.
		Synaptics is the manufacturer of TouchPad pointing devices.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/t/touchpad.html (145 words)

	TuxMobil: XFree86/X11 Synaptics TouchPad Driver for Linux Laptops and Notebooks
		Here you may find an overview of touchpad drivers for X11 and GPM working with Linux laptops and notebooks.
		is a QT based configuration utility for the synaptics touchpad drivers.
		is a package to drive support for the Synaptics TouchPad and ALPS Glidepad/Stickpointer under various flavors of UNIX, although Linux is currently the primary target.
	www.tuxmobil.org /touchpad_driver.html (479 words)

	HARDWARE Synaptics Touchpad - Gentoo Linux Wiki
		If X.Org fails to automatically detect the touchpad, it's device file will have to be entered manually.
		After you've made all your changes, restart X and your touchpad should do all kinds of neat tricks.
		Changes with synclient are not permanent, and must be explicitly set via xorg.conf, or in one of your startup scripts, if you wish them to be preserved between restarts.
	gentoo-wiki.com /HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad (1818 words)

	ErgoKey: Touchpad Keyboards
		The ergonomic keyboard above has a built-in space saving touchpad that replaces your mouse and allows you to perform point and click operations without removing your hands from the keyboard.
		The TruForm is a 105-key ergonomic, contoured, extended keyboard with a built-in touchpad.
		The built-in touchpad replaces your mouse and is ergonomicly placed, allowing usage without removing your hands from the keyboard.
	www.ergokey.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=EKL&Category_Code=Touchpad_Keyboards (624 words)

	:: View topic - A macro control for touchpad in racks too, not only AU/VSTs
		This way people with instruments with a touchpad could assign this software touchpad to whatever they want withing the rack and could have different setups for the touchpad for different racks (since the setup was rack specific, just like the macro controllers).
		Of course mapping them to the macro knobs limits the usage a bit, since the 8 macro knobs could have some specific tweaking parameters and touchpad could be set to something totally different.
		But I guess the touchpad to the macro knobx would be much more simple than making a completely new mapping for the pad itself..
	www.ableton.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=54057 (635 words)

	2.6.13+ Kernels hose Synaptics Touchpad - LinuxQuestions.org
		Researching/google seemed to suggest that the touchpad interrupt was failing because a lower interrrupt was blocking for too long.
		Which force my touchpad into strict ps2 mode, synaptics driver not loaded, hence lose scrolling, etc....
		It's a pretty nice package with troubleshooting notes, and a couple of guys on Slackware have gotten their touchpads to work using it.
	www.linuxquestions.org /questions/showthread.php?t=438203 (728 words)

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