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What is the most cost effective hardware to use for Surface 2 software development? [closed]

I'm setting up a Surface 2 development lab for a large government agency. I'm looking for the most cost effective combination of hardware for this. I plan to get 1 or 2 Surface 2s for production / ...
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Get MS Touch Mouse “expose style” gesture without mouse

The MS touch mouse has a gesture to bring up an expose style task switcher to show all open windows. Is this a built in feature of Windows 7, and can I use it from a keyboard shortcut?
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multi-touch for programs that don't support it

I have a touchscreen that I'd like to use with a 3d modeling program. I think that I could be more productive in a 3d environment if I could use touch to navigate in this program but unfortuanatly ...
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Taking notes with a stylus on a capacitive touch device - how do you prevent your hand from causing multi-touch problems?

When taking notes with a stylus on a capacitive touch device like the ipad or android tablets how do you prevent your hand from causing multi-touch problems? When you write, both the stylus and your ...
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How can I make Windows 7 more touch-friendly?

Is there any software that I can install to make my experience on a Windows 7 tablet a bit better? Here are some features I'd like to have: automatically show virtual keyboard when i select a text ...
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Can I send multitouch gestures over VNC to OS X Lion?

I see that my trackpad (Acer Aspire notebook) is able to detect double touches with Synaptic drivers installed. Is it possible that to recognize multitouch gestures so I can remote control a Mac with ...
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touch doesn't “click” in windows 8

I know windows 8 is in its early stages but maybe someone has a solution for this. I can pan and zoom things with my fingers all day but it never interprets my touches as a click (I do get the ...
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Disable touch input temporarily when digitizer pen within range

I recently bought a Lenovo x220, and I have been having problems with accidental touch clicks and other gestures being registered while I am writing with the digitizer pen. I have tried disabling ...
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Windows 7 multitouch zooming?

Are their registry changes or other applications that let me take control of pinch to zoom behavior on Windows 7 on a multi-touch tablet? Currently, pinch to zoom appears to behave exactly like ...
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How does a multitouch monitor send the touches to a PC?

I'm fairly new to touch screens. I'm having a look on Amazon at multi touch monitors like an HP 2310ti and it seems everybody just accepts that Windows 7 can handle it out of the box. How does it ...
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Acer Aspire touchpad (ALPS) not working under OpenSUSE

My touchpad is detected as a PS/2 mouse under OpenSUSE. Under Windows, it supports multi-touch or something and works very well. Can anyone help me fix this?
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Translate multi-touch events to regular mouse events in Windows 7

The "Pen and Touch" utility in the Windows 7 control panel allows to map some touch events to normal mouse events, for example a long "click" (touch) to right-button click. The mapping is done ...
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How can I get an Android VM or emulator working well with my touchscreen?

I have a Dell ST2220T touchscreen. Having just got Android x86 running under VirtualBox in Windows 7, I would naturally like to configure it such that I can control the virtual machine with the ...
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Can I disable multi-touch gestures on my Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820T (Windows 7 Ultimate)?

I don't know who thought having a multi-touch touchpad on a laptop was a good idea, but more often than not I accidentally touch it with my left hand after typing and zoom in/out of the browser when I ...
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Samsung 650TS large format touchscreen API support

A potential client is thinking of using a Samsung 650TS 65" touchscreen for a specific application, but other than "it connects to a PC via USB" I can't seem to find out anything about interfaces. In ...
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Does the Microsoft Arc mouse support middle click and drag functionality?

Writing software that I want to have click drag functionality for the middle mouse button (Like most 3d modelling software). I think that is one awesome mouse design, but I read on the Microsoft ...
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Switch spaces trackpad MacBook Pro

I want to be able to change spaces by swiping. Example: Swiping right would switch to the space to the right Swiping down would switch to the space underneath I tried BetterTouchTool but it only ...
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Can I get the multitouch touchpad to respond to a double tap for right click

the Dell Latitude E6410 I just got for work has some of the multi-touch features you see on a Mac book/pro now with only some of the multitouch gestures I find myself naturally using the other half ...
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Improving the response of a multi-touch display panel

I've got a Lenovo T410s laptop, which has (according to the Windows device manager) an N-Trig MultiTouch HID Device, hardware ID 1b96 0001. Unfortunately, the response of the touch screen is poor. ...
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Does RDP support Multitouch? (and if not, does anything?)

I'm trying to set up a system where I have two computers: a powerful desktop, and a tablet that I can carry around easily. The tablet may be the Notion Ink Adam, Motorola XOOM, or another one I ...
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Magic mouse multi touch feature wont work

I just got a new magic mouse and the left and right click work fine but the swiping and scrolling wont work. I am running Snow Leopard (Version 10.6) on my 2009 MacBook and have performed all the ...
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Is there anyway to (easily) convert a regular LCD monitor into a touchscreen monitor?

I've seen some kind of overlay thing you can get for CRT monitors to make them touchscreen(I saw this at a movie theater) and I was completely amazed. Well, I want to do this to my LCD monitor. Where ...
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Do any laptops other than Macbooks have multi-touch?

In particular, how well does the multi-touch work (ie. is it laggy or inaccurate) and how many gestures are supported?
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More multi touch macbook trackpad gestures for windows 7 bootcamp

Duplicating another question that still doesn't have a positive answer... I have Windows 7 running on my Macbook and I am wondering if it is possible to take advantage of the multi touch trackpad and ...
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multi-touch and windows 7

If i buy multi-touch monitor like(Samsung MULTITOUCH LD220Z) Then can i move multiple windows(minimize close) control multiple volume sliders simultaneously in audio mixer and does all this extends to ...
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PDF Reader with Multi-touch

I am looking for a PDF Reader that has Multi-touch support on Windows 7. Flick left/right to turn a page Drag to move a page Drag (slider) to jump to a page Pinch to zoom Fast (no rendering delays) ...
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How to disable multi-touch zoom gesture for Google chrome browser in Windows 7?

I'm using Windows 7 with a multi-touch screen. Does anyone has got a clue how to: disable the page zoom / view->zoom in Google Chrome completely (or) disable just this particular multi-touch ...
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Can I use a non-synaptics device driver (i.e. ELAN) with my synaptics touchpad (Win7)? If so, should I, or is there a better way?

Per this earlier thread, I understand that my current driver is tailor-made to my laptop (acer aspire 5740-5780, windows 7 64bit). The touchpad works fine; I'm just smitten by the multi-touch options ...
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Mouse to touch point driver, Emulate touch points with mice

Are there any drivers to convert mice to touch points for multi-touch applications on Windows 7?
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Can HP 2209t monitor detect multi-touch like HP TouchSmart monitor?

I know you can help me out from this little problem. I am planing to buy a monitor with multi-touch feature that I can use to develop multi-touch application in Windows 7. I found HP provide them ...
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New macbooks touchpad: customizing middle-clicks and few swipe actions natively

I was fairly happy using BetterTouchTool on my MacbookPro, when it crashed for no reason and gave no warnings whatsoever. It just stopped working and I think the only way to fix it will be a restart. ...
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Is there any multi-touch graphics tablet with Linux drivers?

After watching the absolutely amazing 10/GUI video, I have been dying to try to implement something like this. I can do the software side quite easily, but I don't have the hardware. The Wacom Bamboo ...
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Changing drag & drop behaviour in Windows 7's explorer for touch screen use

I have a new touch screen, and am playing around with its functionality. The most productive use for me is organizing files (literally) by hand. It's fun working through a list of files, dragging and ...
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Change meaning of various multitouch gestures on macbook pro

Is there any way to change the meaning of the multitouch mouse gestures on the macbook pro? There are 4-finger gestures that it handles, but it looks like the meanings are hard-coded. 4-fingers ...
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Does the Mimo 720-s touchscreen work with Windows 7?

Does the Mimo 720-S work with Windows 7's multi-touch? Their website doesn't mention anything newer than Vista. Even though it's a touch, it doesn't mention multi-touch. Has anyone tried one with ...
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Two-finger scrolling with Ubuntu 9.10 (Samsung NC10)

Is it possible to configure Ubuntu 9.10 to use two-finger scrolling on a Samsung NC10 netbook? I tried to configure it, but I had no success.
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Make MacBook Pro 'throw' scroll

I can't think of a better way to describe it in one word, but... When you use the track pad to scroll, but flick it and then whatever you are scrolling continues to scroll and bit and winds down. ...
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Multitouch in VM

Is there any Virtual Machine program with support for Windows 7 multi touch? I don't care about the platform that the virtual machine is ran on, but I'm assuming that's important eh? Well maybe ...
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3 and 4 finger swipe stops working on MBP 13"

I have a MBP 13" running Snow Leopard with the 64-bit kernel. The 3 and 4 finger swipe stops working randomly (I haven't pinpointed what causes it) and the only way to get it back is to do the SMC ...
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Does Windows 7 multi-touch work with every touch screen?

Will Windows 7's multi-touch work on every touch screen? Edit: Ok, do you think some of these drivers would work backwards compatible? If not, how would I recognize if it supports it (if it's not of ...
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Multi touch trackpad gestures for Windows (7)

I have Windows 7 running on my Macbook and I am wondering if it is possible to take advantage of the multi touch trackpad and have (more) gestures, more than the default boot camp drivers give you. ...